Posted by bleauberry on October 25, 2010, at 17:58:00
In reply to ultra, ultra, and ultra rapid cycling, posted by alchemy on October 22, 2010, at 16:20:53
Well, my moods usually flip in terms of hours and minutes, not days or weeks, so what is that? Ultra ultra ultra ultra ultra?
Whatever someone wants to call it, it doesn't matter. The name is simply a fancy way to say "gee, my mood doesn't stay the same very long". Big deal, thank you name, didn't help me at all. Still have no idea what is going on or what to do about. I find names fairly useless.
Whatever is going on, it is physical, not psychiatric. The psychiatric part you feel is the end result of it. So it appears like all the world to be a psychiatric condition. Very deceiving.
If you would like some ideas, let me know. They won't involve meds, except perhaps maybe very low dose lithium, which is actually a salt not a med. There are ideas that can truly get you feeling better.
Been there done that. I can relate to your post. It would not surprise me though if you have a hard time relating to mine. But of course psych meds are the only thing we can do, right? They are the best thing we can do, right? Wrong on both counts.
Food for thought. I had an entire genetic test. Very expensive. It showed all the mutations, snippets, and such in so many groups of genes, including the one you mentioned in your post. There are a few experts that are becoming well versed in knowing how to piece these clues together and choose supplements that "bridge the roadblock" where genetic flaws exist. In my case, some of them were not good for me and some were fantastic. Like meds, took some experimenting. For someone who doesn't have a genetic test, it doesn't matter. The things you would experiment with can be counted on ten fingers.
> I am now to the point that I seem to have a rotation every 3-4 days; sometimes a dip or two during the day, and sometimes minutes or seconds.
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> I look for page after page for any research or treatments. And this is all that I find:
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> ~ It is very difficult to treat & has a poor prognosis
> ~ Theories that antidepressants contribute
> ~ Mostly women
> ~ Lamictal is probably the best med to try
> ~ mid-90's studies: Nimodipine (a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker for high blood pressure.) probs & got no where
> ~1998 A possible gene: Ultra-ultra rapid cycling bipolar disorder is associated with the low activity catecholamine-O-methyltransferase allele.
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