Posted by pedrito on November 19, 2008, at 16:11:58
Hi all,
I am experiencing some kind of emotional and psychological cycle which I describe below and I want your thoughts on what it might be. I am on 200mg Lamictal [for 1 year] and 25mg Luvox [for 3 months] for depression, anxiety and obsessional thinking, which I've had for 12 years. When increasing dose on Luvox recently I could not tolerate 50mg, it made me consistently depressed. 25mg is definitely helping, I have improved mood and less obsessional blame [which is one of my main problems] but this cycle is still in place. Another potential factor is that I have IBS-C, which has a huge effect on my emotions and psychology. I'm not sure if/how that fits into the cycle, I'm mentioning it for completeness.Here's the cycle:
- I feel up and positive, even excited for 10 - 14 days, despite strong obsessional blame. I can only sleep 5-6 hours before waking up because am so excited with things to tackle, even though I will instantly and strongly blame myself and feel 'a bad person' almost all day. I feel tired but wired [I get black bags under my eyes] and can't really relax. A bit like I've downed a pot of strong coffee [which I don't drink].
- over 2-4 days, this segues into a period of sleeping regularly [7-8 hours], feeling less enthusiastic and maybe a little apathetic. Not too bad.
- this proceeds to drop into a period of moderate depression. I feel horrible. I lose motivation and just want to stay home. Things in the future seem threatening and dark. This lasts 5 - 7 days
- this lifts over 2-3 days and the cycle repeats.So this apparent cycle takes 19 - 28 days which is too long for bipolar depression, that I know of. I would like to know people's thoughts on what condition[s], processes, symptoms or interactions I might be experiencing.
Any help is much appreciated, I am sick of feeling like this. Sorry if this isn't the proper forum for this post.
Pete
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