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screamingdata
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Posted - 10/03/2005 : 06:57:29

Its been just over a week now on the new meds, and just...Wow. I've been remarkabley stable (compared to last week, for instance) self, though still off kilter. No over-night, miracle drugs yet it seems!
However, the meds aren't knocking me out anymore, which means, I'm back to no-little sleep again.

Addition to this - I think I'd be diagnosable as ADD now without it hiding behind something else. My moods are starting to show signs of stablizing , but now I have all this...motivation. Tons of it. Hundreds of tons of it. WAY too much of it. Its overwhelming me. I spent 4 hours cooking and cleaning! I DON'T DO THAT! I - spend four hours gaming, not on my knees with a scrub brush under the kitchen table.

I have all these things I want to DO now that I can't afford or have the time for, or the attention to actually get done unless I hyperfocus, like with my little domestic binge. I visit with my pdoc today, its something I'm going to bring up with him. ADD runs rampant in my family so I would not be suprised at all if its just able to show better with a better handle on the more pressing "afflictions". On the other hand, it could just be 1) the med's side effect, along with some disconnectedness and uncoordination and weight gain 2) wrong dosage of the med or 3) Tough I doubt and hope against - a creep into a manic episode. (I read somewhere the med I'm on , Risperdal? has the potential to cause them, which is ironic in a medication used for bipolar I think.) or 4) As suggested by my father, the presence of ADD unmasked.

This is something else I need to get a handle on. Last night I was ... exceedingly motivated to do something, which didn't happen, and I got very mad and upset (in that internal, quiet, "Yes doll, everything is fine." kind of way) at the situation, myself, and the others involved - until I had a complete break down to sobs and hiccups and a very confused boyfriend on my hands. So I can see this becoming a problem if I can't find a solution to this .. motivation. Who'd have thought it'd ever be a problem? I suppose motivation to this extent could be called "restlessness" or "anxiousness" but I'm not feeling either of those, just really excited to do things.

Anyhow, back to my original thoughts -

Has anyone else started digging around to find more problems than they expected? Particularly, bipolar and ADD combined? How easily are they treated in tandem?

Signing Off - Screaming Data, and her Infinite Jabber Drive

meow
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Posted - 10/06/2005 : 11:25:21

well, my last coctail was anti-depressants and stimulants, my pdoc thought I was having troubles with my concentration, which is understandable seeing as though I am diagnosed with ADD, and I was in a down at the time... thus the anti-depressants... but the combination of those two meds had me, and still has me (though I'm off of them for over a month now) doing things like your hands and knees kitchen floor scrubbing spree (in-fact, I bleached and scrubbed the kitchen and bathroom just the other day, definately not my style). I'm not so sure if this is at all helpful, but at least I can say, you're not alone in that boat... and also a warning to have people keep a close eye on you if that behavior is noticable to you, because things got rather ugly for me speeding along so fast trying to stick with the meds then I popped, quit my job, got another which I proceeded to quit after 2 days and am now without job, moved in with bf again which isn't the most stable place, without my pdoc and have even more questions and issues going on than before.

Anyway... no clue here... just that I've been the gerbil that it's been tested on, and... not much fun. Hope someone comes up with something because it'd make things easier.
...
-Mary

warblaster
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