Posted by katia on April 13, 2004, at 17:56:44
In reply to Re: Barbara here » katia, posted by BarbaraCat on April 13, 2004, at 1:06:28
> Hi Katia. You'll always be Katia to me. I've always loved that name.
Hi Barbara,
I love that name too. and was exposed a lot to it when i lived in Russia.> There's a wonderful book I just finished; "The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder" by Stephanie Marohn. I highly recommend it. She talks about bipolar as being just what you described and much more, basically an electrical disturbance that has to be healed, integrated and honored from the deepest spiritual levels to the biophysical ones. It covers many modalities of healing and philosophical musings about this disorder. It's a bright and shining gift, but without guidance it can become so overwhelming and exhausting.
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**I'll check it out. Sounds great. I'm swinging back to being open to other things besides meds, even tho' meds are important too.
> **That's one med change I may be open to and will bring up with my pdoc. I've been taking Ambien cause without it I just don't sleep. But I've heard that Seroquel works much better and has the added antipsychotic benefit. I just don't want anything that's going to pack on more pudge, which I've heard tell it can do, or cause weird tics.**I don't I have any wierd tics, but I've been having real trouble w/ getting weight off - just these ten pounds. I do sleep really well w/ it. It's great.
> >> I did just up my Lamictal yesterday to 50mg and went into an awful wierd agitated state for the past two days...
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> **You seem to be doing real well. I can sense a more joyful lightness and hopefullness in you. Just wondering why you're feeling the need to up the Lam if you're doing OK? You know, if it ain't broke...
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**Well, I felt the depression creeping in, you know in the shadows on the side lines, ready to pounce. I"m trying to be pro-active and catch it before it catches me. W/ all these major life changes, I'm very suceptible to it now. But what it did was made me OHHHHHH SO AGITATED AND CRAZY. I had to back off down to 37.5mg instead of 50mg. I also increased the trileptal to 450mg. I think 300mg was just too low - I'm cycling a bit still. The therapeutic dose for Tril. is 600mg. I feel a bit more calm, not so agitated, hang wringing, intolerant, tearful, and anxious.
I'm almost there re: the right med cocktail.
Good to hear from you. Keep in touch.
Katia
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