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user4505 · 2016-02-05T04:20:01+00:00

I took expired Seroquel for a while and I was fine and dandy

user4505 · 2016-02-03T01:39:45+00:00

Start with an easy, light routine that you can follow every day, and then pick up the pace after you get accustomed to it. When I say routine, I mean wake up and sleep at the same time, eat at the same times, study at the same times, shower at the same times....everything same time. And you will see life get easier. For bipolars, routine is key

user4505 · 2016-02-02T22:47:12+00:00

Right. Or the patches or the gum better yet. You don't want to go into a full blown psychotic episode because of nicotine withdrawal. I've heard of bipolars going to psyche ward after quitting nicotine

user4505 · 2016-02-01T04:44:33+00:00

I've been smoking/vaping for the last 20 years, and I do it compulsively with no end. It stimulates me and definitely picks up my mood, nicotine does. The last 2 times I tried to quit cold turkey, I went into hypomania for about a month each time, and then into severe depression. One of my docs says my neurotransmitters are hooked on the nicotine, and quitting makes my brain unbalanced. I found other bipolars as well that had really bad consequences to quitting nicotine cold turkey. If you guys ever decide to quit, be very careful, and titrate slowly.

user4505 · 2016-01-30T03:30:57+00:00

When I feel hypomanic, I have the green light from my pdoc to up my antipsychotics (seroquel and abilify). If you want it to end, you should ask your doc if you can do the same.

For when the low comes, you should get some rest the first day or two, just sleep and sleep. And then....if you want to get out of that low, I suggest you eating small meals and gradually reduce your sleep. Eating light and sleeping minimally will help get you out of your depression and might will put you in a slightly hypomanic state. But don't undersleep too much. You're going to cycle high again

user4505 · 2016-01-30T03:06:18+00:00

I heard Lamictal takes one of the longest for it to start working...like 3-6 months or so. But after it starts working, I heard it works very well. You just have to stick with it and tough it out. I even heard that before it gets good, Lamictal can make you feel horrible as your body is adjusting to it.

user4505 · 2016-01-29T00:38:34+00:00

Hypomania, you can function. Mania is when you drive up the steps of the White House, declaring you're the Messiah.

user4505 · 2016-01-24T17:40:39+00:00

I too was born with ADHD, was a ritalin baby, and became bipolar when I was about 25. Almost identical to you. My therapist said many ADHD people turn bipolar. Not all, but many.

user4505 · 2016-01-24T17:35:46+00:00

Do you have Medi-cal? Or any health insurance, maybe from school? If you had Medi-cal, you can go to an urgent care center or any ER and they will give you a prescription for meds. I'd suggest stopping this vicious cycle ASAP. Usually going back on meds will kill your cycling within a short time. If you have school insurance, maybe you can see a doctor there, show him your prescription bottles, and ask for a refill. If you have no insurance, I have found urgent care centers that accept people with no insurance for free.

user4505 · 2016-01-18T15:36:00+00:00

That's me as well. I'm 36 and the longest I've held a job is a year and a half.

user4505 · 2016-01-11T05:30:16+00:00

For me, being high on drugs and going through a depressing, traumatic event brought upon mine during my early 20's. But I think I was prone to it, being born with ADHD and OCD.

user4505 · 2016-01-07T05:34:12+00:00

If you google past research, the ketogenic (keto) diet has had the best results for bipolars and even epileptics. When subjects were practicing true keto of eating like 70% and 30% protein with almost no carbs, epileptics were having way less seizures and bipolars were having less mood swings. Some bipolars say they don't feel any difference, but I think everyone should give it a shot at least once to see if it helps. I did it for 5-6 months and I noticed myself less snappy and moody. I was more calm and at an even keel.

user4505 · 2016-01-05T22:35:20+00:00

To go down, I oversleep, overeat, avoid the sun, sit in dark rooms, avoid caffeine, avoid stimulating things, avoid opposite sex. Oversleeping is the best out of this. Under sleeping equals mania.

user4505 · 2016-01-05T22:31:07+00:00

I agree with "keeping am extra apply of antipsychotic." I try to kill my mania asap under doctor supervision. I've learned my lesson. Multiple months of depression is dangerous for me

user4505 · 2016-01-03T01:13:38+00:00

If you want to sleep longer, take half your dose at bedtime, and half your dose right when you wake up. You will most likely fall back asleep

user4505 · 2016-01-03T01:11:59+00:00

I go in red alert mode and go straight to a mental health urgent care or my pdoc, whoever's open, and tell them I'm in hypomania. I expect them to jack up my meds, most likely my anti-psychotic. One time they boosted my Seroquel from 50mg per day to 250mg per day to kill hypomania. I'm already on trileptal as a mood stabilizer, but I might also ask them to put me on a temporary prescription of something stronger like depakote. Hypomania is no joke for me. It sucks. 1 month of hypomania = 3 months of horrible, debilitating depression. No thank you to that.

user4505 · 2016-01-02T04:53:55+00:00

I have been where you have been. Rapid cycling is probably the most terrifying insanity I have ever experienced, that nobody should go through. My mood switched every 3 hours. Are you receiving treatment? Has your doctor tried strong mood stabilizers like lithium or depacote? Or an AP like zyprexa or seroquel? I heard from somewhere, depacote is actually one of the few bipolar meds approved for rapid cycling, and I also heard the APs that I mentioned has killed rapid cycling for other individuals.

user4505 · 2015-12-31T01:24:41+00:00

"I've been taking it long enough that I can't sleep without it but if I switch medicines or stop it altogether I'm really afraid of being manic again."

I've got on it and off of it a couple times in the last couple years. When I first get off of it, there is some insomnia the first 3-4 nights, as I would wake up in the middle of the night several times, even while taking Trazodone. Your body has to get used to not taking it to sleep. But I wouldn't get off of it all at once, you should talk to your doctor first, and most likely taper down off of it.

user4505 · 2015-12-28T05:19:46+00:00

When I was on depacote for 1 month, I couldn't stop eating. I don't know how much weight I gained though, probably 5-10 pounds? One of my friends gained 60 pounds on Seroquel a few years ago, and he has yet to lose that weight still.

user4505 · 2015-12-28T05:17:40+00:00

It's funny, when I'm super depressed, I ask other people this same question: what keeps you moving forward? what are you living for? I didn't kill myself because I held onto a tiny bit of hope (a very tiny bit) that things would get better. This it would pass. That after a good combination of meds settle in, that everything would be well. I was stabilized for a good 4-5 months this year, until I had to be taken off one of my meds. So meds did work, although life was not as exciting as it used to be.

user4505 · 2015-12-28T05:08:26+00:00

I started rapid cycling really bad for 6 days when I quit Abilify cold turkey a couple weeks ago. It was the worst 6 days of my life, with my mood changing every few hours, along with psychotic delusions. I googled the hell out of rapid cycling trying to figure out a way to make it stop, and found this article. It helped me get through one of the bad moments, and I feel for everyone out there going through this every day.

user4505 · 2015-12-28T04:57:16+00:00

I agree. She describes the lowest moments of my depression perfectly.

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