Posted by cpallen79 on August 7, 2004, at 23:27:37
In reply to Re: Misdiagnosed? All Bipolars should read this. » starlight, posted by lauram on August 7, 2004, at 12:12:02
Yikes- Abilify causes akithisia, intense agitation and inner restlessnes... god, some of these PDOCS sound absolutely retarded...
I myself resisted the idea of being considered BP (hell, my past posts in the boards confirm it) because I also have the whole gamut of problems... OCD, ADD, PTSD... However, it was when I looked back in my past (all the way back to childhood) there were mood issues that were not normal moods. It was from this and how I have currently responded to my latest SSRI that I truly believe I have at least a mild case of BP II, which my PDOC seems to agree with. At first she didn't think I was BP, but then I told her some stuff, and walla, I now have a bottle of trileptal winking at me in medicine cabinet, ready to be taken.
Hres the bottom line.. I think for every person being misdiagnosed as BP, there's someone out there who is being missed. There's such a huge spectrum that it's hard to say... there's even "unspecified BP" on the spectrum... It really boils down to you and your history... you have to read between your own lines, does what you PDOC says make sense? If not...time to find a new one.> My Pdoc put my on Abilify for four months. I became extremely agitated, couldn't sleep for three months and becme severely depressed (none of this had ever happened before). He decided I was bipolar (in my forties)even though I had never been manic or severly depressed.
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> He put me on Depakote which turned me into a zombie. I came off Depakote and have never had another episode again. Huh, you think the Abilify had anything to do with it? Especially when you consider how activating it can be? It would have been helpful to have known it was used for psychosis since it actually put me into a psychotic state. I'm not bipolar, never have been.
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