Posted 12/19/2013 8:12 AM (GMT 0)
hi everyone, I have either bipolar disorder 2 or 3. I am taking lamictal 100 mg daily. I was in denial about my disease for years and finally found relief with lamictal. I was given klonipin and antidepressants for years which only worsened by condition.
I spent 8 months doing a slow titration off klonipin, I mean a living hell. then I slowly weaned myself off lexapro. all of this under a doctor's care. I was told by an addiction specialist I would not know what was really wrong with me until I got off these medications. and she was so right. I am doing better now than I have in years getting the right treatment. the drugs numbed my body so much I could not feel it or my emotions.
I have also being recently diagnosed with lyme disease. I have been told this can cause bipolar symptoms. so, I am hoping that is what it is instead of an actual bipolar illness. my mother was a paranoid schizophrenic and had a frontal lobotomy in the fifties. we think she may have been misdiagnosed when she really had bipolar disorder. so I am not sure if I actually have the disease or it is lyme. I just know I am mood stabilized on my current meds, no matter what is causing it, and I am so grateful. the last 10 years of my life has been a train wreck. I am recovering. I am also on azithromycin for lyme and I noticed a hugh improvement with both drugs, the antibiotic and the lamictal, so I am suspicious, it may just be lyme.