Post by HoPpeR© trading at 1492¥Post by Harryhow many & for how many times have changed mood stabilizers?Curious
(blue)
I tried four. The last one worked.
Lamictal...first and only moodstablizer. None had even been suggested
by my now ex-shrink. i brought it up to her about 2 years of diagnosis
and placed solely on Effexor.....so hihly dosed that i didn't have the
motivation to get up and dressed and down to the cornor store at the
end of my street til I'ld been off cigarettes for 4-5 days.
i told the shrink this and she said, oh don't worry about that. At
least you're now rarely suicdal. in retrosect......wouldn't it have
been great to have actually quit smoking then.
And i onlu askked this Dr. to put me on a mood stabllizer after Lynda
NP told me that it was beyond shocking that i had been diagnosed 2
years before but never had it even suggest that I might need a mood
stablizer. SHe.....LYNDA NP....also suggested that Lamictal,,,,,still
off label but apparrently effective with Ad for Bp 2 seemed like the
best one to try.
I suggested this to my doctor who had only been pushing fulltime
voluntary addmission for hospitalizaion, or at least consider going
into a partial day program.
Her comment at my suggestion of a mood stablierer......specifically
Lamictal.
Almost verbatim.....oh....yeah....thiat might be soething to really
consider it. Sorry, it just hadn't occurred to me. it should
have....sorry.
So the first 2 years of being so suicidal that i'd actually qualified
for bisability on her accesment of my condition. While doing the
evaluation with me said....okay...what do you think i should pput as
one of the 5 posibilities of long term prognotis? The
loweest...fatal\? i asked this isn't actually fatal is it.....Her
reply....well you really might kill yourself. My reply.....lets hope
this works.....my attempt to manage the BP....Let's go one click up
above declaring fatal then. Risk that she might die.
No shit.
And this wasnot a cheap clinic. i was and always have been
fully...truly full insured.
Two years of my life literally burned.....ever to be regained
again...and that thrill of feeling....yes, i really am at very high
risk of suicide...never getting better.....in theknowledge of myself
and all medical practioners that my other had actually committed suiced
when she was much younger that the age I was during this time.
And yes.....i have serious issues around the quality and competency in
the treatment off mood disorders in the United States even now in he
lofy year 2006.
Some one really must write that book...or at leas a phamplet enittleds,
yes, doctor, you degognized when I am depressed but you recognized it
or even heard the patient make the slightest mention of a history of
Manic depression in he family.
Hint? A depressed person tellls you that they have a history of wild
out of the blue shopping sprees and cannot actually tell you what i
bought....totalling several thousand dollars...stores and totals and
dates all clearly listed on my credit card bills.
Please, please, please require the entire medical community.......if
here is recurring severe depressive episodes and lots of suicidal
ideatoin......hey......at least try the paient on a mood
stablizer.......any mood sablizer.
If it is at all evective....patient gets even a little
better....BINGO..it is absolutely BP. Diagnose it and keep that Mood
Stablizer on the must have list for the rest of her life.
Post by HoPpeR© trading at 1492¥From what I understand a mood stabizer doesn't produce any type of
reaction....it's probably not BP.
The waste sickenns mme.
But you who know me already know how close this concept is to health.
Maggie