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Bipolar My doc suspects bipolar disorder

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It’s pretty much a non-issue at this point. I’ve had multiple professionals say no, it’s not bipolar, and my antidepressant isn’t causing a reaction. My inpatient doc said I was having a typical (for me) anxiety episode and thought nothing of it. Yesterday my regular doc asked if I had any more anxiety type feelings from the med and I said no, the jittery feelings went away.
 
Hi Eve,
Glad you are sorting it out and feeling better. You have talked quite a lot about what sounds like emotion lability for you in the past, in general. Is that something they have properly looked at for you?
 
And no offense to anyone else, but I feel ashamed.

My mom says not to worry, I haven’t changed as a person. It just describes what is.

I don’t go manic. My doc says my agitation is part of hypomania.

I guess I just want to hear from other bipolar peeps.

I feel so alone.

While many may think BI-polar diagnoses is cut and dry, you either fit a set of criteria or you don't
Nature does not like things to be in such neat boxes with rules for a DX.

The fact is BI-POLAR is varied and different for almost everyone

Some get episodes that are destinct, others get episodes that are misleading

For instance, over 40 years I was on lithium, and tegretol and some others,

but back I was not given a bi-polar DX, despite know periods of mania.

Why well I did not do well, but it was not the medications it was my PTSD.

Problem was normally I am hypo-manic most of the time, with medicine I

sometimes am normal. My current psychiatrist based on my level of mania

that he could see and my descriptions was going to DX me as Type 2 bi-polar.

That was until I told him how my current DX of Severe Mixed Bipolar I was made.

Like all these other DX times, my DX would not have been made correctly

had it not been my psychiatrist at Sheppard Pratt Trauma Disorders Unit

who was 25 feet away when she watched me switch from a very manic state

to a very depressed one in less than a half an hour.

Point is bi-polar comes in many flavors, a correct DX is sometimes just luck,

Often the observations of nurses and other such people don't provide

the observation information needed to get a correct DX. There are a percentage

of us who are hard to diagnose correctly, and there is a percentage of those who's

symptoms behaviorally (psychosis being amount them) make diagnoses easy.

Even still treatment with a correct DX can be elusive. I am on a ton of medications,

2 different mood stabilizers (Lamictal, Lithium), 2 different anti-depressants (doxepin, wellbutrin)

Visteril, and there are other meds that are no-psych meds, all said and done over 20 pills a day.

Even with all this, my bi-polar depressive cycles escape successful treatment.

Getting a correct DX sometimes take a lot of effort, and diligence. Sometimes it

take the right doctor and the right setting to get a good DX.

Your doctor may be right, or wrong, or partially right.

The best source of information for getting a good DX is

what others who are close to you and know your behavior and

habits, to pickup on things that can be useful towards a DX

My housemate represents that to me, she see's when I am the slightest

bit manic, where I don't, she knows when I am struggling or hurting

as she says I am heavy footed when I am walking at home. Like children

might make in an upper apartment during play, you can hear loud foot

steps from them playing. You might ask those around you what

they see. You might get some surprises. You might take it a step

further and ask them to tell you when they see it. I have that now.

The information you might get might be invaluable towards a correct DX.

If your able to deal with it you might have them record the highlight

of your moods, seeing it yourself and your doctor seeing what he

does not see in the office.

Remember the DX is not as important, it's a label, a good medicine regime

is more important, regardless of the DX.
 
While many may think BI-polar diagnoses is cut and dry, you either fit a set of criteria or you don't
Nature does not like things to be in such neat boxes with rules for a DX.

The fact is BI-POLAR is varied and different for almost everyone

Some get episodes that are destinct, others get episodes that are misleading

For instance, over 40 years I was on lithium, and tegretol and some others,

but back I was not given a bi-polar DX, despite know periods of mania.

Why well I did not do well, but it was not the medications it was my PTSD.

Problem was normally I am hypo-manic most of the time, with medicine I

sometimes am normal. My current psychiatrist based on my level of mania

that he could see and my descriptions was going to DX me as Type 2 bi-polar.

That was until I told him how my current DX of Severe Mixed Bipolar I was made.

Like all these other DX times, my DX would not have been made correctly

had it not been my psychiatrist at Sheppard Pratt Trauma Disorders Unit

who was 25 feet away when she watched me switch from a very manic state

to a very depressed one in less than a half an hour.

Point is bi-polar comes in many flavors, a correct DX is sometimes just luck,

Often the observations of nurses and other such people don't provide

the observation information needed to get a correct DX. There are a percentage

of us who are hard to diagnose correctly, and there is a percentage of those who's

symptoms behaviorally (psychosis being amount them) make diagnoses easy.

Even still treatment with a correct DX can be elusive. I am on a ton of medications,

2 different mood stabilizers (Lamictal, Lithium), 2 different anti-depressants (doxepin, wellbutrin)

Visteril, and there are other meds that are no-psych meds, all said and done over 20 pills a day.

Even with all this, my bi-polar depressive cycles escape successful treatment.

Getting a correct DX sometimes take a lot of effort, and diligence. Sometimes it

take the right doctor and the right setting to get a good DX.

Your doctor may be right, or wrong, or partially right.

The best source of information for getting a good DX is

what others who are close to you and know your behavior and

habits, to pickup on things that can be useful towards a DX

My housemate represents that to me, she see's when I am the slightest

bit manic, where I don't, she knows when I am struggling or hurting

as she says I am heavy footed when I am walking at home. Like children

might make in an upper apartment during play, you can hear loud foot

steps from them playing. You might ask those around you what

they see. You might get some surprises. You might take it a step

further and ask them to tell you when they see it. I have that now.

The information you might get might be invaluable towards a correct DX.

If your able to deal with it you might have them record the highlight

of your moods, seeing it yourself and your doctor seeing what he

does not see in the office.

Remember the DX is not as important, it's a label, a good medicine regime

is more important, regardless of the DX.

Thank you for sharing, but for me it is a non-issue.

My moods are tied into my sensory issues, hence why every mood shift is a reaction and not something that pops up out of the blue as in typical bipolar disorder.
 
Using the wrong words can cause alot of problems. It took me years to figure out I was using disoriented wrong. I always thought it was a synonym for dizziness or motion sickness.
 
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