Posted by Ritch on October 24, 2004, at 16:23:39
In reply to Bad Day Yesterday..Didnt want live., posted by woolav on October 24, 2004, at 8:21:12
> Hey All, I have been dx with mainly panic/anxiety disorder. But have come to realize that I might be some what BP2. I have been cycling in the sense that I go about a week of feeling okay. (I take prozac for depression and klonopin for anxiety.)I also take lamictal. But about once a week i have what i call a major depressive episode. Like last night, i cried and told my husband that i didnt think i could go on much longer. Because i have been trying to get better for years now and i feel like nothing is helping. My pdoc recently raised my lamictal to 250 mg a day in hopes that it will stop this, and its only been a week since i have added the extra 50mg of lamictal. Perhaps i should give it more time. But I hate feeling so bad about every 10 days or so that i actually want to go somewhere and just die. Does anyone else cycle like this and if so, do you guys think raising the lamictal will help at all??
> Thanks,
> Sandy :(
YES, I cycle very similarly to what you do. The length varies from as little as 12 days up to about every 3 weeks. I'm euphoric or mildly happy more-or-less for 2-5 days, relatively 'normal' for a week or more, and then have 'spells' of broken sleep and depression that is 'plain'(just lethargy and oversleeping_ravenous appetite), or 'mixed' where I am full of panic anxiety (electric doom is a good analogy) for several days in a row. When you have a "crash" does it kind of feel like being in a plane and losing altitude suddenly? That's what I used to get in the past-very, very sudden mood flips that would last for a few hours or a few days. I haven't tried Lamictal yet. You might ask your doctor about some thyroid hormone (T3,T4, or both). I've heard that can work well with ultra-rapid cycling. Trileptal did the best for me for smoothing that out-but I couldn't tolerate it due to killer nausea. I hope that helps some..
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