Posted by KG Miller on July 28, 2000, at 20:38:24
In reply to Re: My 18 yr. old son w/bi-polar and anger, posted by MelindaJ on May 25, 1999, at 11:55:26
I am a 33y/o married white female. I have tried to go on w/o the medicines and believe me, I had the oppertunity to stay on it and NO matter what Xanea says, PLEASE keep your sons on the medicines! I have been on and off since the age of about 12. My lists of dxs are long and they started me out with the usual, back then. I was put into an almost like state of coma. But as i grew up and was able to voice my opinions I was moved up to Depakote and now Topamax. At this combination is working ok for me, but it still needs to be tweaked more because of problems are coming though.
When I was off the medications I was punching so many walls, I was a regular in the ER for hand x-rays, and stitches to repair my wrists, arms and ankles. I was also a regular in the loacl mental hospital every month for a while. You DON'T want your sons to go through a life like that. Trust me just because 1 person may have gotten 'extremelly' lucky and slide through without needed meds, don't mean everyone should do that! You can get away now-a-day with very minor doese of pills! They had me on a Thorizine shuffle for a while!
Talk to the doctors, have blood work done every month for Depakote lvls, look into Topamax (it's for mood swings), just don't let them do the same thing to me, over 28+ pills a day!
good luck!!!!
poster:KG Miller
thread:1095
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20000717/msgs/41606.html