10-19-2009, 02:23 AM
@Omni:
With my experience with treating bipolar patients, a typical bipolar is either mostly manic, mostly depressive or both but you don't look or act like any of those though tbh. Lamictal is the standard treatment for mood disorder and/or bipolar 1 (if recall that correctly) if that's how they diagnosed your disorder to be.
Bipolar 1 is the most difficult (in my part) to treat since they have mixed moods and then large bouts of major depression after some manic episodes. Sometimes there are these manic episodes when sometimes the patient has hallucinations or delusions or both.
Wellbutrin is another antidepressant, I don't encounter that much use of it here tbh, all I know is that it treats seasonal mood disorders and some form of depression.
At least your not taking Lithium, those are for the severe bipolar cases that are highly unstable, they have some serious side effects and you have to monitor your lithium blood levels, since ODs can have serious repercussions on your well-being.
Well kids really change your world, as one would say. My brother has 2 of his own, good thing they're 7 and 11 years of age now, easier to manage, just give em TV, a Computer or a book, then they're all set.
What do you do (non pharmacologic) when you're dealing with stress when you're in between taking your meds Omni?
@topic:
Personally I have no known disorder of any sort (I should since I need to nurse people back to health. lol), I just have migraine mostly (treated with distraction and pain killers) and myopia (glasses and contacts). Was diagnosed with click murmur (mitral valve prolapse) but meh, was just 15% backflow and not really a serious case of mitral valve regurgitation and doesn't require valvuloplasty.
With my experience with treating bipolar patients, a typical bipolar is either mostly manic, mostly depressive or both but you don't look or act like any of those though tbh. Lamictal is the standard treatment for mood disorder and/or bipolar 1 (if recall that correctly) if that's how they diagnosed your disorder to be.
Bipolar 1 is the most difficult (in my part) to treat since they have mixed moods and then large bouts of major depression after some manic episodes. Sometimes there are these manic episodes when sometimes the patient has hallucinations or delusions or both.
Wellbutrin is another antidepressant, I don't encounter that much use of it here tbh, all I know is that it treats seasonal mood disorders and some form of depression.
At least your not taking Lithium, those are for the severe bipolar cases that are highly unstable, they have some serious side effects and you have to monitor your lithium blood levels, since ODs can have serious repercussions on your well-being.
Well kids really change your world, as one would say. My brother has 2 of his own, good thing they're 7 and 11 years of age now, easier to manage, just give em TV, a Computer or a book, then they're all set.
What do you do (non pharmacologic) when you're dealing with stress when you're in between taking your meds Omni?
@topic:
Personally I have no known disorder of any sort (I should since I need to nurse people back to health. lol), I just have migraine mostly (treated with distraction and pain killers) and myopia (glasses and contacts). Was diagnosed with click murmur (mitral valve prolapse) but meh, was just 15% backflow and not really a serious case of mitral valve regurgitation and doesn't require valvuloplasty.
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