Re: For every question answered... » fires

Posted by partlycloudy on March 30, 2005, at 14:13:42

In reply to Re: For every question answered... » partlycloudy, posted by fires on March 30, 2005, at 13:34:38

> Even though I'm not severely depressed, I still have a lot of variation during a given day. When I move around and do ANYTHING I feel a touch of "hypomania" coming on. I can have 5 + "cycles" in a day.
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I think this is sometimes called "rapid cycling"?
> Re: your panic attacks: do you experience panic? or does you heart just race, etc...
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> I guess I'm asking if your panic attacks really make you panic? I was told I had a panic attack -- in an ER -- but I wasn't the lest bit panicky.
> > I suppose everyone is different.
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No - I feel the physical symptoms of panic in that I can't catch my breath, I feel my heart pounding in my ears, and also feel as if I can't swallow (constricted throat - although it isn't). Luckily (???) I now am aware of what type of situations are likely to trigger such an event and I can either avoid them - also you can only go so long without a trip to the grocery store - or I can pre-medicate with .25mg of xanax.

> >>This last episode of major depression lasted over a year.<<
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> OMG, I hope it wasn't real severe -- I can't imagine a severe episode lasting a year!!
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At the time I was just getting through it - I can only equate it to trying to walk through a snowdrift. You know you're getting somewhere but it is very difficult and you'd rather just lie down. I tried to make light of it ("going through a bad patch") but my p-doc, as inscrutable as she is, actually came out and told me that I'd had a really rough time of it since October 2003 and she was really pleased that I was finally getting better.
From what I understand, the dx of BP2 is a pretty undefined set of symptoms with a lot of variations. And from what I've read here, not many doctors accept what we all understand and have experienced as rapid cycling of moods.
Good luck - I'm proof that things can get better!
pc

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