I was diagnosed with bipolar when I was 14
years old. They srated me on lithium and
I have been on it since. I am also on
depakote and paxil cr. (for my anxiety
and panic disorder) we recently strted
questioning whether I was actually bipolar
or not. After a lot of research and many
different doctors they told me I di have
bipolar but the childhodd version of the
disorder. ( I am 23 and usually by now
it would have taken the adult form) for
those who do not know a lot about the
childhood disorder instead of being super
high and super low I am kinda high and
kinda low but my fits or episodes come
from being told no. Kinda sounded like a
temper tantrumm to me. I usually have a
lot or rage and emotion that cycles very
rapidly when I have these fits. Lately I
have noticed a lot more anxiety than
normal, horrible intense vivid and
sometimes scary dreams, I can't seem to
wake in the morning but by mid afternoon I
am sky high. I do not know what is going
on with me. My doctors appointment is
next week. Has anyone experienced
anything like this?
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purple333
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 1420 Location: Sydney
Posted: 05-17-04 04:02am
Very often medications (or a combination
of meds) can cause extremely real &
distressing/emotionally disturbing dreams.
Recently this happened to me - I was
unlucky as this side effect was almost
unheard of with the particular medicine -
which didn't help as it took longer to
figure out what was going on. Meantime I
was having dreams that were so real I was
often unsure of whether I had dreamt a
conversation or it had actually happened.
Plus there were the nightmarish dreams
which were so real I would feel the fear
even a few days later!!
I would suggest that you first of all
check & recheck the meds you are on.
Second undrestand that when our system is
thrown out of whack (for any eason) it
responds in an out of whack way (this too
can be made worse by meds!!) so being high
in the afternoon & unable to wake in
the morning may all just be a part of the
same problem - meds & not necessarily
you!!
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KrazyKMB
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 19
Posted: 05-17-04 10:06am
Purple333-
what meds are you on? Do you mind
sharing which one gave you the nightmares?
It seems that I have these surreal
dreams a few nights to a week or so and
then won't have them for awhile. I do
not know if they are related to any new
meds or not. My mom says when I was very
little I had nightmares that were really
bad and I wasn't on any meds yet.
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purple333
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 1420 Location: Sydney
Posted: 05-22-04 15:29pm
Krazy,
i would gladly tell you what caused the
horrid nightmares but I honestly forget
the name (although it was only this year)
as so much has been going on, in any case
what causes such an effect on one person
may not on another, alos a med you have
been on before or even for a good while
which was ok, can become a bad problem for
tonnes of reasons.
Right now i'm on vioxx, progout,
diaphormin, stillnox, weight loss tabs,
5htp, valerian, (trying some of the more
natural stuff) - I was taking dhea but
stopped as it seemed to be having some
weird side effects - I will try it again
shortly to see whether the side effects
were real or coincidence~~ remember that
tablets here may be under different names
to those you get.
My son (9) may be bi-polar I am doing some
research into this but find that many of
the "symptoms" are also symptomatic of
other things, this is made worse by the
fact that he is not only extremely bright
but also very sensitive to spirits (as in
ghosts not alcohol!!) etc which causes him
to be scared to sleep alone - so he sleeps
with me!! Despite being 9 &
extraordinarily independent in every other
regard. Which makes me wonder if perhaps
your nightmares are to do with sensitivity
to the spirit world & I would also
suggest that you do some personal research
into whether you feel that you are truly
bi-polar, doctors so often get things
wrong, I can not count the times I have
come across wrong diagnoses of myself,
both children, family etc in so many areas
(physical, mental you name it!!).
