Pills.....
Just used bi -polar as an example. Could have said cancer patient .I just did not understand his statement that if you don't want to take it you don't need to.
Was I being an obfuscater??:glasses7:
i dont sleep well at all to say the least.and for me temazepam is some of the worst crap i have ever taken.it worked well for about 3 days.then the ultra strange dreams started.also i started to get a bad hangover.id feel dizzy as hell all day,and everything seem like i was dreaming.after about 2 weeks i was more screwed up than i would have been if i had not slept at all.if we are anything alike DO NOT TAKE THIS CRAP,youll regret it.
Last night was my last night on it. Can't wait to see what is next. Xanax worked for a long time, maybe I should just take a break from it and try it again. Only trouble is I have gotten to the point where I almost "need" something to help me sleep.
i know people who are medicated with anti-depressants and are bi-polar. it can be nothing nice. i really hope you can get this worked out and that it can be stablized. i get mood swings but i have never been to a doctor about it and i just deal with it. i cant really speak on the subject so dont take my humor the wrong way. hopefully those damn doctors can get it right..
Not saying that all bi-polar folks can not get by with just an anti-depressant, but I know I cant. I had several friends that are bi-polar, and we all reacted the same when we just on anti-depressants, without a mood stabilizer. My old head doctor in AZ was right, if you take the stress away the mood swings will fade. I still get them, just no where near as frequent or as broad as they were. But throw some stress into the mix and I am right back to where I was before going out on disability. Most days when we go shopping it is a challenge, to say the least, to make it thru a store without getting on my horse and galloping around like a mad man. There have been some times where I have snapped at people on here. I have gotten to the point, for the most part, that when I am "in one of those moods" I just stay away from everybody & everything. I honestly do not now how my wife, Ernestina, puts up with my crap. When we were still employed I hit a particularly rough patch and did not say a thing to her for close to 3 weeks. Did not talk to anybody, just went thru the days as withdrawn as possible. A former co-worker noticed that I acted very much like his wife, going from very withdrawn to very out outgoing, friendly and sociable to the guy that you just could not be around. I spent hours talking to him about it, ended up saving his marriage. Unless you have someone with this goofy *** problem in your life it is very difficult, if not impossible, to understand what it is like. I spent an hour or so yesterday talking to Ernie's "goofy friend from down the road". She and her husband are in there mid-60's, retired for a while. Been married for 10 years, looks like they will not make it to 11 because of her troubles. She no longer has manic episodes, where she was "the life of the party" type of person. Now that she has settled into a depression Jim can not stand her anymore. What do you say to someone in that spot? I have tried to talk to Jim about things but he is just who he is. He does not realize that she has no control over her depression, that even though it appears that her moods are connected to a light switch she has no control over the switch. He just does not get it.....