It is amazing how many visits I have been too and I have changed pdoc 2 times, changed meds many times and I am still is a mixed state.
Very Depressed, yet at the same time with severe symptoms of anxiety and even paranoid of EVERYONE/EVERYTHING.
I am not sure that pdocs spend enough time with patients to get the real diagnosis. A pill here and a pill there seems to be the theme and then you are on your own until your next apt. Very scary.
I went in this week and was placed on seroquel (quetiapine fumarate)- knocked me out cold which isn't bad because I have not slept well in forever and that may be the cause of my mixed state/rapid cycling...or is it my blood sugar...or MDD plus GAD (that was the first diagnosis)...or am I paranoid.
I hate taking meds because I think they are like poison. Anyway...I did take the Seroquel at bedtime, with depakote ER at bedtime and Cymbalta in the AM (Do these meds seem right for MDD and GAD?)-- more like BD--but I think my pdoc is afraid to say that to me.
Getting to the point-- I did sleep last night BUT this morning I felt shocks of electricity going through my brain an couldn't get up for the longest time... NOT GOOD.
I am not sure if I need a reapeat of that. I think I am really messed up, does anyone else feel the same way I do?
I have in the past felt so hopeless and full of despair about my diagnosis but these days I say to myself so what if I am schizophrenic or bipolar who cares as long as I feel well in myself.
Yep Synapse, I am starting to have the same outlook. I can remember not wanting to take an antipsychotic, because, that meant I was psychotic, but, well, if I didn't take them, I wss noraml ok. How funny that is to me now. At the time, I was a mess, from amphetamines. A real mess. If I can get the right dx and the right meds, I will be forever grateful. Lynn
If people offer their help or wisdom as you go through life, accept it gratefully. You can learn much from those who have gone before you.- Edmund O'Neill
I am curious to know how many of you have other diagnoses besides bipolar disorder. Are you taking medications for something else? I have read that certain vitamin deficiencies can mimic the bipolar mixed state. I think it is either b12 or folic acid deficiency. If you are taking other mediciations for something else, check to see if the meds cause vitamin deficiencies. (And you don't have to be vegetarian to have a B12 deficiency).
I was taking Dilantin that depletes the body of folic acid. After taking the medicine for a few years, I was diagnosed with bipolar- mixed episodes. I independently decided to stop taking the seizure medicine almost 3 years ago and my bipolar disorder went into remission.
Bipolar Mixed State/ Rapid Cyclers/ Misdiagnosed
Posted - 05/18/2006 : 12:19:45
