UP, very very UP

May be hard to remember from my previous post, but I realized last week that the anti-depressant I was put on is causing me to go manic. Been trying and trying to get in to see the doctor sooner, but looks like I will not be seeing her until the 1st. I started out feeling great because mania looks prettty freakin good to you when you're coming out of severe depression, but now I am hitting the part of mania that gets hard. I can NOT sit still. I have waaay too many thoughts going through my mind, and I am constantly thinking of all of these things I "need" to do, which I know are bad ideas. I can't tell you why at the moment they're bad ideas, I just know its the kind of stuff that if I ran it by someone else they would say its definitely something I shouldn't do. Nothing too harmful to myself. Just really feeling the need to get out, even though I've been out non-stop for the past three days. wanting to see people I really don't need to see. Just starting dating a new guy and its freaking me out so I have this impulse to do all this messed up stuff to screw it up so I don't have to be freaked out about it anymore. Sorry for the rambling. Just trying to vent about how this feels to people I know can relate.

Are you only on an antidepressant? Are you diagnosed as bipolar? If not diagnosed bipolar, I'd at least talk to your pharmacist to see if they recommend you stopping the antidepressant. If they do, call the pdoc and tell him/her so. That might get a reaction before December 1st.

If you are bipolar I'd call your pdoc and tell him you consider yourself to be elevated and that you suspect the antidepressant might be the cause. Or better yet, if you truly are severely elevated (full blown manic) then someone else should call your pdoc (usually when I'm full blown manic I wouldn't call pdoc unless I was mixed manic and then I'd be screaming). If that doesn't get a response then I'd look for a new pdoc. Remember that good pdoc's will call you back in the case of an emergency and often set up emergency appointments. Mine did a few weeks back when I was just moderately elevated. But at that level I was so bad that my husband wouldn't let me leave the house. He took my car keys away. When I consider myself to be full blown manic I am ready for the hospital and usually am having psychosis.

I sure hope you can get your hands on a medicine that will bring you down to earth. I was feeling very elevated today so I went to the gym and wore myself out completely and now I feel much better. Mania can be so irritating.

You're lucky to recognize that you're manic. A lot of us don't.

Call your pdoc's office today and tell them or the voice mail or the answering service that you're going manic and you need some advice - and quick - about stopping your antidepressant, because you don't want to change your meds without their approval. My dad was a shrink. He checked his messages at least once a day on weekends.

I have a bp friend who raises and lowers the antidepressant himself, per doctor's orders, in his cocktail. 100mg if he's hypomanic. 150mg if he's getting depressed. Unfortunately he doesn't have insight into his hypomania so he tends to stay hypomanic and thinks he's normal.

And medicine to bring you down to earth? Zyprexa. We should all have it in our emergency first aid kits. Good luck

Celexa caused me to rapid cycle and I ended up suicidal and hospitalized while on it. I hope you get some professional consultation soon...

I'm not on Celexa, maiharris, but Zoloft, which is also an antidepressant. I've been mildly to moderately elevated for the past week now. I've got a scrip for Seroquel, but I can't get it until after the 1st, when my insurance kicks in ('cause it's like $190 w/o insurance). So I'm rrreeeaallllly working on keeping myself from going wayyyy up there with lots of reading, meditation and exercise. My mind is whirling miles-a-minute right now - especially when I first wake up in the mornings.

So yah - be sure to get something! I'm fighting all kinds of urges right now!

Call your shrink NOW. Did you tell your shrink you were going to wait to fill the Seroquel? That's something they need to know. They may have been expecting the Seroquel to balance out your other meds. It's like if I told you your car needed oil and gas, but you decided to just put gas in it and go driving anyway. Your shrink may think you need both, may think you're getting both, but you're not. You need to tell them NOW.

If money's a problem, you could take Zyprexa (olanzapine), which is cheaper because it just went generic. You can switch later. Same class of drugs. It will knock down the mania, help you sleep, mellow you out.

Good luck and PLEASE call your shrink. If they're worth a damn, they'll get you squared away, right away.

PS, G** d**** slimy, corrupt,American health insurance industry

I find it incredible that you recognize you're manic. As someone said, a lot of us don't. Even when I do, I ignore that I do because mania feels so darn good!!! I hope you get into to see a doctor soon, I know how frustrating that is. For me, Abilify was making me crazy manic/psychotic.

My issue is I'm on Tenncare so I am limited to the doctors I can see, and the ones I can see are waay overbooked. While I am having an emergency with my meds so are twenty plus other people, so the doc won't do much about it. I see a therapist who can't prescribe meds and then once a month I see the psychiatrist who can do meds. However, when I was first put on the celexa I didn't realize I was manic. I just thought it was working really well because I wasn't depressed anymore. so my doc gave me three refills and made the dec. 1st apt. That was three months ago and since then I have had to move back home because I lost my job and a ton of other crazy things have happened. Still seeing the counselor every other week and it was after that that she changed my diagnosis, but she still can't do anything about my meds. BUT going to see the doctor that can later in the week.
But since she diagnosed me as bipolar I have been paying attention to my moods very carefully, and since the meds make it more drastic, its easier for me to tell my mood. For me, I pretty much know if I'm not depressed, I am some scale of manic. That's just how I am.
so anyways, will be getting the meds adjusted on Thursday. My family is aware of whats going on and they're watching me very carefully.

Talk to your doctor about emergency contact when you see him or her later in the week. If you have another emergency they may not be able to see you right away, but they can talk to you for a minute and phone in a scrip. I'm pretty sure that's how it's supposed to work.

Bongo, I am on celexa also but since i was bi polar they also have me on a med called Latuda...I never heard of just being on celexa...

Yeah, thats because they didn't know I was bipolar when they put me on celexa. They thought I just suffered from depression. It wasn't until after continuing therapy and seeing how that medicine alone affected me that they realized I was bipolar.

I freaking hate the way being manic causes me to interact with other people. I have no filter. I feel so social, but am stuck at home with the baby so I am left to facebook and my phone, and I know I annoy the crap out of people trying to get them to talk to me. And then I get so anxious and paranoid about it. I feel like every time I don't get a response from someone right away they are avoiding me or ignoring me. And without the filter I tend to voice that opinion which makes me come across as being the crazy that I am and then people really do start avoiding me. When I first hit a manic state, I love it. and then after a while I run into problems like these and I'm just done with it. Go away mania!!!