Posted by Ritch on March 23, 2003, at 10:00:10
In reply to Re: mood swings and how i feel, posted by jonh kimble on March 22, 2003, at 16:16:04
> I get minor mood swings i believe. sometimes i get all energetic and talkative (which I am NEVER) and in the middle of an enjoyable conversasion my mood and all just dies. i become completely silent and uttering a word can be unbelievably hard. I have horrible motivation(although i am dying to do things, if that makes sense), my ability to form words in conversion outside of things like hows it going is unbelievably hard. I feel low on myself although I really like myself (i know that doesnt make much sense either) and i dont really enjoy doing anything, although like i said i would love to do things if i could get some reward out of them. these things and oh ya, horrible concentration, lead toward the low dopamine idea, although i dont know what meds i could use for these symtoms any help here? thanks for the posts,
> Tom
Hey, I used to get those sudden mood "crashes" like what you mention back when I was on lithium (instead of AED's). I rapid-cycle anyhow, but that was one thing I didn't mention was the flips that used to occur during the day. It was similar to what you describe. I could be feeling very elated and talkative and then it would be like someone popped a balloon and I would have nothing to say and would feel like crawling away to hide someplace. Then sometimes I would be feeling relatively normal and then have this "sinking" or "diving" sensation that would be very abrupt-like an airplane losing altitude suddenly. I haven't had those type of flips since I've been on Depakote (didn't get them on Trileptal either). As far as the low dopamine thing.. Stims were very helpful and seemed to flatten my cycling but made me too anxious. I found L-Tyrosine to be helpful, too (without the anxiety). However the tyrosine only seems to work for a few days and then it poops out. I wait a while and restart it if I am feeling down and that's how I use it. I've heard about Enada NADH here and am curious about that, but never tried it.
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