I haven't been on here in over a week but a lot of good stuff has happened since my last post. See my fiancee threatend to leave me and called my mom behind my back explaining how I need help. I got REALLY upset since I wasn't even talking to my mom . . . but I sucked it up and agreed to go to the doctor and get on meds! My fiancee came with me and during the visit it was apparent that I was stuck in this manic bi-polar state for quite a while - I'm talking like a year! I was put on several medications all which cost me $30 a month at Cosco (what a nice doctor to research the cheap meds for me) and I immediatly felt better. I have been on meds for 9 days now and finally feel like I can do things since I started the meds. I know some meds take 30 days to work, but my meds I feel much much much better from day one!!! I really want to stress that medication for disorders do infact help. If you are bi-polar and just feel anxious all the time or cranky here are the meds I'm taking that may help you:
Risperidone
Trazadone
Prozac
It's great to hear you're doing so well so quickly. Risperidone didn't work for me. What ever you do, please keep taking them, even if you feel better...that's the key...I've been stable for going on 4 years now. I take my meds every day without fail. take care...jim
So happy to hear that you're alright! I was worried! Meds do work and you and I are proof
P.H.
YAY!! I'm here to tell ya meds do work-it's been a long hard struggle-I had to get sober,get acutely manic,got unsober,got sober ;got on meds that worked,quit the meds, did drugs,quit drugs and drank,got sober,eventually ended up homeless and then in jail from actions during a manic episode from being sober and manic-get this I truly believe God helped me when I landed in jail,forced sobriety,several med changes,NOW 7years of the right meds,2+ years of continuous sobriety.my relapses have gotten shoter in length and further in between-that's my life story here-I hope anyone reading this gets some hope!
I agree that meds work. When i first found that i had Anxiety, I felt it was taking over my life. I couldn't drive, couldn't be around people, couldn't walk out my door, or focus well enough to read my boys a book. I took an antidepressant that didn't work for me. But I was then put on Klonopin and it really helped me out, in a matter of days I was up and didn't feel that horrible anxiousness, and I don't know how long I could of taken that. I don't care what anyone says anymore. If I need my meds, then I need them. God has made me this way for a reason, I am who I am :)