Posted by Zo on March 24, 2002, at 3:53:55
In reply to opiate/opioid therapy, posted by A0102 on March 21, 2002, at 7:59:54
I was almost *exactly* in your shoes late last summer. And have been trying meds and med mixes for about fifteen years. All over this board about my TRD. I had an appendectomy in August and felt soooo well on all that Vicodin, my pdoc put me on Bupe (troches). . .And the first few days, maybe a week, felt sooo nice, it's very persuasive--and then I went into a dark, agitated, determined mania the likes of which I'd never seen before. The upshot was, this *absolutely* cleared up for us the question of was I Bipolar II, he put me on Lamictal (on top of same Dex and Effexor for years). . .and, snap!
Everything clicked. I've never been this long without depression in my whole life--and nary a suicidal thought.The moral of the story being. . .something about the *enourmous* difficulty of tracking down Bipolar II, in part because hypomania feels just plain good. . . I don't doubt for a minute there are TRDs! I was about ready to think about ECT. . .and look what happened.
Hope this is of some use,
Zo
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