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BL---       07/21/04 06:45 PM Edit Reply Quote jenX Reged: 08/11/03 Posts: 3252 Loc: Richmond, VA i'm sorry it went poorly. for just a tiny bit of perspective: the worst thing about bipolar patients is that they are always wanting to stop their meds ( understandably! i'm not judging, just telling you what i've read over and over again). once they're feeling better, they want to try a vacation, like you did. unfortunately some of them never want to go back on and get worse, so you can see why the docs don't want you to do that. they don't want to "lose" you. also, if it helps you remember why you should stay on the meds: you can cycle faster and harder if you go off and on the meds. every time you stop, you speed up the progression of the disease. if that's not something i'd write and hang up in the medicine cabinet as a reminder, i don't know what is! i understand that apparently some of the meds for bipolar can be rough? that's what i've heard. please, please, give your doc another chance. (not something i usually advocate!) i am assuming you're going back on the meds? i hope you are. see what you think of him at your next appointment. sometimes it's nice to have a little less touchy-feely going on when it comes to meds plans- those docs don't pull punches because they believe so strongly in their medications they've prescribed. that can be good or bad but you need a little time to figure out which one this dude is. hope you're feeling well... *j ps: in case you are wondering, i was diagnosed as bipolar for a little while in my 20s but it turned out that it was a misdiagnosis. it was medicine-induced. my body reacted very strongly to a combination they were giving me and i got kinda low-grade manic which alternated with the depression that they were originally trying to treat (Prozac and Ritalin and i are not friends! ). when i stopped the various meds i was on the mood cycling stopped and never came back (though i do have depression issues). that probably explains why the stupid meds they put me on for the bipolar kicked my a** hard and didn't work a bit on the cycling. anyway, that's why i have read a lot about the disease. -------------------- Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator

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