Hey everyone. Here's a question. After two years of being told that my husband is bipolar, we're now learning that he actually has IED. Explosive rage is his probelm. He never did fit the bipolar...
I shudder and cringe with my BP husband used the word "happy." I don't think that it is a place he will ever go to again. Whenever he gets ambitious or at all exuberanat, I know that it is the BP...
I don't advocate that anyone drink. I'll simply tell you what happened to my husband. He had regularly comsumed alcohol up to about age 45. We had just gotten married and I asked him to quite. He did...
Thanks Hippy Girl. I'll check those sites right now. Guess you understand why I'm concerned. Two of his main 3 drugs are being phased out and this haldol is being added. No telling what we'rte in...
Well, my sweet little bipolar husband is about to have yet another medicine change. THe doctor wants to take him off the cymbalta and the seroquel and add haldol. I assume that the lithium would...
Hey, has anyone tried a divorce to solve their acid reflux problems? Does the problem go away when the stress goes away? My husband has serious mental health issues that he and the doctors just can't...
I appreciate the honesty that you expressed. I'm wondering if my bipolar husband has issues from childhood that are making his condition worse. He was not molested, but he was physcially abused and...
I take OTC heartburn drugs and Tums along with the Nexium. I found the omeprezole to work just as well as the Nexium. Try generic Tagamet or one of the others to help the prescript ion drugs work....
Please don't get yourself in this mess agin. Find someone who will be commited to helping you manage your medications. I bought my husband one of those plastic pill holders with each day of the week...
My heart goes out to you. I have no advice for you. I am married to a bipolar man who has yet to become stable for any period of time. I cannot really plan days in advance, much less weeks. His first...
I'm dedicated to trying to eliminate some of the misconceptions about mental illness to people I have contact with. So few people have a clue about the causes and effects. My husband understands that...
I went to the pdoc yesterday with my husband for his regular visit. Joe had been zoned out for a few days. Anyway, his blood lithium was 1.9 and the doctor got us on the phone on the way home...
Olivia of course, Thanks for the information. I'm so sorry that you have had to deal with this. This does sound like my husband when he was at his worst. He later said that he could start a sentence...
Could you explain what a mixed episode is? Is it the same thing as ultra rapid cycling bipolar? I've seen my husband cycle 3X in an hour. Thank you....
I'm so sorry about your condition, but you have to try harder to help yourself. Abusing yourself will not cure your illness. Stop the bad stuff. Change doctors. Sounds to me like you need more...
My acid reflux started during perimenopause/early menopause. I had never even had a case of heartburn, and still haven't. Acid just comes up without any pain. I would strangle during the night and...
What is considered a high dose of lithium? My husband is taking 1500 mg per day. I wonder how this compares to what other people take. He is doing well on this dosage, and is stable. I don't want it...
Neither Nexium or other PPIs caused me to gain any weight. I am quite slim and the drugs have caused me to lose a couple pounds because I feel full and have less appetite. Here's another question:...
Hey- Y'all both should post updates. I'm concerned!! about the back- my husband had a compression break in T10 5 years ago, before the bipolar diagnosis. (He just didn't know it then). He was on...
What a super question. Sounds like normal determination to me. I have that kind of personality. I've always taken on more responsibility than was necessary, and things always worked out. Perhaps ask...
Sounds like his disease has progressed. It gets worse if left untreated. I only wish that someone could have recognized that my husband needed help years ago, before I met him. She does need as...
Be super careful with the reglan or its generic form. I ended up in the emergency room last week with horrible, painful facial spasms. My jaws were twisted, the teech clenched, the eyelids pulled up,...
THis is my opinion. A bipolar person can no more cure himself naturally than a cancer patient can or a deaf man or a person with kidney failure. This is a serious disorder that requires serious...
You simply have an illness. None of us get to pick our problems, and based on my experience withmy husband, bipolar is one of the worst. Keep taking the medicine and change doctors if you don't...
I just have to comment on this. I married my husband 41/2 years ago knowing that his father was a little nutty and on medicine for mental problems. I didn't know that bipolar ran in the family. Now I...
I'm new to this forum. Maybe this story will help someone. I am 46, fit and trim, with no history of any food-related problems, and no bad habits. My husband of 4 years developed bipolar disorder...
My husband has not been able to work productively in over two years and was disagnosed BP 16 months ago. He is now trying to get on disability and is only 49 years old. He is truly mentally disabled....
I so agree with what you wrote. This is a major, life-altering disease that must be battled every day. My husband nevers misses his meds, doesn't drink, eats right, exercises, etc. His doctor just...
I posted a message about three weeks ago saying that my husband had been taken off seroquel and lithium and put on invega while keeping the cymbalta. The first four days were really good. He then...
Here's an update on Invega: It is day 11 for my husband and he has been mildly manic now for 3 days. He went off camping alone but will call me each evening. I'm afraid to go and join him even though...
First, good luck with your bipolar management. I do not have BD, but was a long-time TMJ sufferer. I eventually had majoy jaw surgery on both jaws. By rearranging the jaws, the pressure was taken off...
I replied to this yesterday, but put the reply accidentally as a new entry. Please read my comments posted under "Sharing Experiences" by APG. Some of the most devout church folks that I've known...
Gee, I'm horrible at this. I intended that this response to a reply to the person asking about religious experiences. I didn't intend to post it separately. By the way, after 7 days off the lithium...
My husband became unusually religious in the months leading up to his total collapse and diagnosis. He seemed to think that God was speaking to him in a special way and that he was to "do"...
Shine-On: My husband wasn't really given a choice the 2nd or 3rd time he was hospitalized. It was either go to the Psych ward or be arrested. He would become very violent and abusive to me with the...
My husband has been on bipolar meds for 15 months after having horrible rages, being violent, and then being suicidal. His medicines have been added to during this time. Yesterday, his seroquel and...