I was very lucky. Yet, apparently I had Bipolar long before it was even diagnosed when I had my kids. At that time I was on every anti-depressant you can think of. Even the old Meprobamate. And also all of your anti-mania drugs. Elavile, triavile and a few others. At that time I had no idea I was manic. Untill finally in mid 80s, I got so bad when in my manic state that I knew something was wrong. I had my hysterectomy back in 1981, a couple year before being diagnosed. And yes, I had a very hard time dealing with some situations. It is bad enough when you are Bipolar and then when your homones start to chance after surgery, seems like it gets even worse. I also found my depression got over whelming at times.

MY fiance has had this surgury done 6 weeks ago due to cancer. It does seem to have triggered more manic type activity. She, like me, has BD 1 (Nice combo eh?) At first they were very frequent but today they are less frequent campared at surgury time. Although they are still more frequent than normal. (Hope that made sense.)

I did not think for a second this may disrupt the BD patteren set in a person until I saw this post. I do know that traumatic experiances trigger wired things in BD. The deffinition to what is traumatic lyes only in what that invidual experiances. Her highs look like she had just taken some happy drug. Maybee I can get her to post about it but like I said it has only been 6 weeks. To early to tell if this is a permanate or temporary thing.

-Del

I have a question for your fiance. Have you or ever notice that when she wakes up (if she is lucky to sleep!) even in the morning or after a nap that she is somewhat disoriented for a few minutes. If so, do you think it might be BD meds, or a hormone thing. Thanks

I asked her about that. She does not notice any type of disorentation after sleeping. She has been like that anyway before the surgury. I havent really noticed anything out of the norm as far as that goes. But lke I said anything traumatic can change behavior patterns in BD. This may or may not have been traumatic to you. It could be your meds, The way your body is recovering from surgery, Hormone change, diet change, newly intruduced meds (Painkillers) or all of them togeather. It is not easy to tell if to many changes took place at the same time. At your next mental health appt talk with your doc about this and see what he/she says.

So far all I have seen is a bit more manic type behavior than normal but as time went on that decresed in intensity. Nobody reacts the same way to any given situation.

Hope this helps some.

-Del