Posted by blueberry on March 14, 2006, at 19:43:05
Wake up at 3:30 a.m. like someone shot a pot of coffee in my blood. Shaking, nervous, super anxiety, depressed, right out of bed. Can't hardly handle half a cup of coffee.
Smooths out a tad later in the morning.
Afternoon from 2:00 to 6:00 is the worst in terms of depression and downness. Real despair.
Then after about 7:00pm I actually feel half fairly decent. At bedtime I am wide awake.
This pattern has repeated every day over and over for 14 months now. Lexapro and/or depakote along with zyprexa did not stop the pattern, but modified it...the lows were lower than usual, the evening was better than usual. Lexapro got rid of most of the anxiety, but the very consistent pattern of daily downs and evening ups was a bit more exaggerated.
Not on anything now except lunesta to try to sleep through the adrenaline nightmare.
What is this pattern? I've never heard of bipolar having a consistent daily pattern month after month? How do I fix it? My doc says try lamictal or klonopin or xanax, along with cymbalta. But I'm getting no where with this doc. Worse off than I was.
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