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 Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:12 am
I have been a Sober Bipolar for over a year now. At first when I was diagnosed, I was on Lithium and Adderall, but I cut all of my drugs because I had to get a wrist surgery that required me to take a lot of pain medications (which Lith isn't always friendly with) and methylprednisolone (which when I'm on Lith makes me hallucinate).
However, as the result of an unrelated condition they are going to put me on Elavil. I briefly searched the forums on meds, and didn't really see Elavil mentioned... Currently they feel that I have a stress affected bladder disorder and they hope Anti Depressants will help, although I have 2 fears:
1. It will swing me horribly manic and I will blow my credit card into oblivion again.
2. It will kill my sex drive.
Any comments?
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:54 pm
It won't do any of those things, but my experiences with it haven't been all that good. I swung from suicidal to numb on a daily basis, so after two weeks of being on it, I had to stop. I was too much of a danger to myself, even with the meds.
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Hypomanic Poet Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:10 pm
I've been "sober" for six months now. My sex drive is dead. So dead.
I'm scared of lithium. Seroquel and Wellbutrin are fine for me.
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