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Posted by ktaylor on October 31, 2005, at 15:54:55
meds that the pdoc love to shove down my throat. I was recently dx with bipolar nos. it really makes no sense to me at all. he said that i am not manic and that is what it means. i don't have all of the bipolar symptoms. i have also been dx with major depression by a pdoc i saw while hospitalized. years ago i felt i had pmdd and my family doc started me on ssri's. nothing really worked. i have been on every ssri and many other ad's. i also have tried many mood stabilizers. those just made me worst. i took a test with a therapist and it came back as possible bipolar, possible major depresion and possible add. I have been asking for add meds for a long time and my pdoc just says well, you'r on wellbutrin and that should help the add symptoms. oh, my daughter also tested and is add and is currently on adderall and she is doing wonderful. my symptoms are no focus, can't concentrate. can't hold down a job cuz of it. i am very sensitive to criticism. basically, i have all the symptoms that are basically the same in all of these disorders. i just haven't found the right med cocktail. i'm so tired of it. right now i'm on zoloft, klonopin for anxiety and wellbutrin. I need some inpute here please. I'm currently titrating of the zoloft cuz it's not doing any good. i've been on it before and it didn't work. i really want to cut out the wellbutrin. i'm on 450mg of it and i have been on it for a very long time. the klonopin is for anxiety. i take 1mg nightly. something else i should mention is that i recently had a hysterectomy and one day is good then the other day is bad. it's back and forth. it's the same symptoms that the pdoc is saying is the bipolar. i get sad,angry, confused to the point of just wanting to stay away from everyone and not being able to do something simple like read something my child brings home from school. ugh, i really feel my problem lies in my hormones. but then why don't the ssri's that are suppose to help with that aren't? sorry this got so long. i just had so much to share. thanx
Kathi
Posted by Glydin on October 31, 2005, at 16:22:11
In reply to I really need some help. I'm tired of all of the, posted by ktaylor on October 31, 2005, at 15:54:55
>i really feel my problem lies in my hormones. but then why don't the ssri's that are suppose to help with that aren't? sorry this got so long. i just had so much to share. thanx
> KathiCan you get to your GYN and get your hormone levels tested?
Posted by Phillipa on October 31, 2005, at 19:36:31
In reply to Re: I really need some help. I'm tired of all of the, posted by Glydin on October 31, 2005, at 16:22:11
Why is it that OBGYN's will only test FSH to see if a woman is menopausal. Fondly, Phillipa
Posted by ktaylor on October 31, 2005, at 21:43:26
In reply to Re: I really need some help. I'm tired of all of the, posted by Glydin on October 31, 2005, at 16:22:11
what hormones do they test? are you talking about thyroid? can they test your estrogen or progesterone or testosterone levels? another weird thing that has been happening in the last few months is i have been groing hair in places most men do. i have to pluck my eyebrows everyday. wax my upper lip atleast every couple of weeks. and now i have hair on my hands and fingers. my obgyn just said oh, that's just getting older. he said it probably runs in the family. i wonder if i should go to a doc that specializes in disorders of organs. i know i'm going to spell it wrong but here it goes, endocronologist oh something like that. or maybe a nuerologist? please forgive my spelling. my brain is on a vacation.
Posted by Racer on November 1, 2005, at 11:00:23
In reply to Re: I really need some help. I'm tired of all of the, posted by ktaylor on October 31, 2005, at 21:43:26
This just burns my butt -- if you just had a hysterectomy, of course your hormones are likely to be out of whack! That should have been the first thing to be checked, rather than just telling you that 'it's just age.'
With veterinarinary care, a good vet will *always* check an animal top to tail before saying that something is behavioral or age. Everything will be checked out. (Heck, when one of my male cats started spraying after we moved in with my husband, we had all sorts of kidney function tests done before saying it was behavioral.)
With people, though -- and especially women -- it's more often the other way around: it's got to be psychiatric, until proven otherwise. And sometimes not even then.
Can you change gynecologists? The first thing to check out are all your female hormones -- estrogen, progesterone, etc. Of course your FSH should have been checked -- that should always be checked in depression, before going for the handy dandy SSRIs. If all those come back clean, then an endocrinologist is a good next step.
I'm very sorry you're going through all this. It shouldn't happen. Good luck.
Posted by ktaylor on November 1, 2005, at 20:40:47
In reply to GRRR! A Racer Rant » ktaylor, posted by Racer on November 1, 2005, at 11:00:23
Racer,
after I read your post I did some internet searching and boy am I mad. I have every symptom of an hormonal imbalance. I know my gyn did some blood test before my surgery. I'm going to ask what he tested for. I have my 6week post hyster check up next week. If he didn't run those tests then i'm going to ask him to. if he wont then i'll just go to my family doc. Maybe being a woman she'll be more understanding. thank you so very much for mentioning the tests. it never occured to me.
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