I really don't know what your going thru because I am like your wife. I am bipolar and depressed and thru the years I have left my husband for some strange reason a couple of times. But when I got...
Just started this med last night. Still woke up at 1: 30 am. Very dissapointed. Even forgot to brake it in half even. Promised to try it for a week even after hearing bad things about it in the...
I know how you feel being ashamed about being bipolar. I have been hospitalized lately for mania and when I told a nurse that I felt ashamed and embarrased about being bipolar she yelled at me--"If...
WOW What a great message tufflove. My poor husband is at a loss for words and at the end of his rope. I know he is and doesn't know what to do. He cannot control me because that is the only thing I...
Hi, I have been discharged and feel a little better sometimes. Been told it will take time . Do not like being so hungry but the side effects of bipolar are worse then the side effects of zyprex I...
Checking in. Just checked out of hospital. THats what I prefer to call it instead of saying discharged from hospital locked ward that I checked into myself cause I felt like a crash was coming. I had...
What out for the fentynal patches they take away your memory. I was on 100's for ten yrs. and those yrs. are missing from my memory and it hurts to not know what happen in my childrens lives then. I...
I am on an 8 hour pass and it feels good. Have been in hospital for a soft landing . I knew a crash was coming and wanted to get it over with but safely, and I signed myself in the locked ward. Now...
Ok I'm going in for an evaluation to see what happens I took a 2 millagram ativan and it did nothing it was like taking candy. They said no more valum but I feel like i'm on the verge of a full blown...
What's wrong with me? I love this up mania. It feel like I just snorted coke. Like I have been snorting for a week. I have gotten so much done, Little susie homemaker thats me and I never clean or...
well good for you . you ca no join our club. But have topromice never to feel bad or guilty taking the money from th e taxpayers for your dissability check. We pain into the system and i'm sure other...
Well I was finnally started on topemax and I haven't had a migraine sinc then. It is a miricle. I used to grt 6 migraines on for 6 days and 3 days off then 6 days with a migraine and then 3 dyys off...
I'm a many-ac should I go in the hospital or just stay home and ride it out? What would you do? My husband is very worried and my sister says I should go to the hospital for a while but I am infured...
Tell blockhead that Im a nutcase and I have bipolor and my husband has taken me to Rome, Paris and London. Nest year we are going to Africa. So there. SOrry honey , but I think that all men are...
Oh yes, I have had chronic pain since I'm 17 and been diogonesed with bipolor a few years ago but keep going off my medication whenever I fel even cause it is so boring I think. But I am not sure. I...
Why do I keep going off my bipolar meds? I just don't understand it As soon as I start to feel better , I think about it and when I really feel better I even and I think I get board. When I'm manic,...
Good for you but I'm far from it. I hate being Bipolar and I think that is is the worst thing ever I hate the meds and I hate the shopping sprees , and charging on my credit cards. Today im cutting...
I now know Y I keep going off my bipolar meds now thank you so much for this post cause i just was wondering y I did shuch a thing all the time and then waited till I went on a shopping spree to get...
It is hard to beleive you are so accepting It took a long time for me to accept the fact that I was bi-polar as well as depressed and had seasonal affected disorderalong with skeezo aaffecitve...
Not ony do I have sad but I have been diogonsed with ABi-polar foo a long time . For some reason everytime I start to feel better for a while I go off my meds Why is this I do not understand myself I...
iT COULD HAVE BEEN A SINUS HEADACE i GET THOSE AND THEY USUALLY TURN ITO MIGRAINES IF NOT TKEN CARE OF...
WTCH OUT FOR THAT FENTANYA PATCH BECAUSE IT IS WHAT THEY GIVE PETIENCE THAT HAVE COLONOSCPOYS AND WHEN THEY PUT A CAMERA DOWN YOUR THROAT TO LOOK A T YOUR TUMMY SO OU WILL FORGET EVEYTHING AND YOU DO...
I can't sleeo for ore hen 4 hours at a time. it reallysucks but the worst thing is waking up before 3 am every morning and staying up for the rest of the day exceot for a nao or two, It realy suck to...
Have you tried a pain clinic or a physisitrists> I;m starting therepy at th re gym so i can lea=rn how to erxersixe thats the onlyway unless you want to take drugs which fidnt work out for e i dont...
Happy to report have not had a migraing since going on a double amount of blood pressue medication. but it is a miricle that I have been ok with no migraines. I 'm so haooy not if onky I coulod find...
I have been taking cymbalta for a long time. itake 40 millagrams a day and I luv it. It takes away my appitite and stops me from staying in bed sleeping al day and that is good. If I sleep during the...
I was wondering why you don't take Imatrex or a migraine med to take care of this pain? There is another new one on the market as well. Sicerely, knitwit...
WOW THat sounds worse then my migraines thats for sure. Now that you know they could come back at anytime you need to be ready for them. And you can be. Speaking from experiance, taking the imatrex...
After 10 years of migraines, allowed only 2 to 3 imatrex a week, and have then when the migraines come in cycles of days (lately 6 in a row) so Im constantly at the doctors office or hospital for...
Wow Jim, reading your story was like listening to myself explaining chronic neck & pain, along with cyclicle migraines, an extreem liquid restrition, itchy skin, & the depression that goes with it...
Cymbalta has saved my life thats for sure. I take 20 to 40 mg.s a day and it really helps the chronic pain along with the depression. It keeps me awake and is wonderful for my weight as it takes away...
It took me 3 or 4 no's from Social security disability judge go ok me, and it wasn't the chronic pain,mental issues, that disabled me. It was all the narcoticsand other drugs I had to take because of...
its now 1 pm, and Im still hurting. Pissed off is more like it. Because actually I caused the increased pain myself. I sat at my desk and chatted and surfed the internet for 6 hours and my limit it...
Crying right now because of pain. just cannot take it anymore. too tired fighting it. Y can't I just take endorphenes by mouth or inhale it or put it on my skin? I must escape this chronic pain thats...
My Dear David, This is the one of the best posts I have ever seen. I've been around the block too! When I read Pamalneckpain's reply with all those distractions she wrote I wanted to print it. I'm...
Just the thought of any type of house work at all what so-ever starts noticeable pain. At 17 had riding accident and chronic neck and back pain since just getting worse. I started getting cleaning...
My migraines come in cycles like the last one was for 6 days, six in a row. My neurolologist told me I can only take 2-3 imatrex a week otherwise it cause a rebound effect But I cheated last week and...
I had lymphoma in 1990. I have had black drainage from one of my nipple s and boy was it scary. But I went to the cancer specilsts and she said they looked at it under a microscope and it was nothing...
WOW I sounds Like your not Bi-polar to me. If your not having any symptoms and your not an any meds and you feel fine I beleive if it isn't broke don't fix it. i am no proffesional anything. Just a...
I have recovered from depression and i have not been perscribed seroquel either. I take all the meds I'm supposed to when I'm supposed to with food. Do you have any thoughts about that Serafena?I...
Hi, Well I may not have all the things that are wrong with you, But I still have chronic pain, depression, and I am Bi-polar. I am up at 3am every morning. EST. Y don't you come to the chat rooms and...
[color=cyan>I] 5 smokes. [b][color=#00ffff> I have tried to tell all my doctors and I am in a group therepy that meets 5 days a week from 9 to noon.I talk about it everyday in group at check in and...
I sur believe that accepting your dx is most important step because i was dx w/bipolar and did not accept it or beleive in it either.so i kept on self medicating and going on a roller coaster ride...
Hi Wicks, well, I had a riding accident when I was 17 and now Im 52. I used to be on pain pills but i just couldn't tolerate the side effects mainly the constipation and sleepiness. So yes my chronic...
hi lost, i just finished that kind of program and it was really helpful with my depression i was in for 5 months in bed. it was group therapy. it really worked but mine was from 10 to 4:30 try it and...
Froggy, I read your post and you know that everybody reacts differently to meds. Keep on w/the cymbalta and see what happens it just didn't work for me because my depression was about recouperating...
hi there, Is there anyway you could get your husband to a therapist? Sounds like his troubles are effecting you.and him as well. If you could take him to one of your sessions maybe your therapist...
HI there, i take 60 mg's of cymbalta everymorning and it didn't really start helping me untill i went into an outpatient group therepy program it was from 10 to 4:40 everyay for 3 weeks or so. there...
please come to the chat rooms most of us have depression and we all meet in any room as long as there are people in them theu have helped me tremendously signed knitwit knitwit=like to knit and...
Hi Jenny, i raised 3 sons 19, 23,28 all successful We both compensated each others parenting. 28 is marine college,in polatics now,23 is college graduate and moved out too and has his own place 19 is...