I was shocked yesterday when my doctor’s office called to give me the results of my thryroid test. Is no one having blood drawn any more? Is the world ending? This is like reasonable timing. *gasp*
My thyroid levels are fine. TSH, T3, T4, and Free Thyroxine Index are all in the normal range. I’m not particularly surprised. The T3 that Lady Dr. Shrink was most concerned about is almost exactly smack in the middle. LOL Now I know that thyroid apparently wasn’t what was throwing me into rapid cycling.
Perhaps I need to talk to Lady Dr. Shrink about the fact I’ve always been diagnosed as rapid cycling? She seemed to think it was something unusual, when it wasn’t especially unusual to me, at least, historically. This is just the first time she’s getting a view of it when there isn’t something else going on that she can pin it on.
I’ve had so many new meds tries that did weird things to me, and prednisone, and bronchitis, and and painkillers and surgery from the car accident, and so on in the year or so I’ve been seeing her that it’s taken this long to notice that my rapid cycling might just be that. I find that pretty funny. I find it even funnier that I’d forgotten what it was like when I didn’t have anything to blame it on other than bipolar. Oh how easy it is to avoid acknowledging that my brain just doesn’t work normally. LOL
Oh, another funny thing came out of my last visit with Lady Dr. Shrink. She mentioned something about not taking my wellbutrin SR after 4pm. WTF??? I told her it would have been nice if someone had mentioned that. LOL To her credit, she apologized profusely for not mentioning it before and was shocked that my previous pdoc hadn’t mentioned it. Um, no, twice a day to me means 12 hours apart and no one ever said anything other than twice a day. *boot to the head*
I wasn’t angry with her, though, since it had been Rx’d by my previous pdoc and I’d been on it for over a year when I met this pdoc. She got a good lesson in “state the obvious because prevous doc might not have”. Maybe it’ll help someone else. And maybe this will help me!
Now that I’m taking my second daily Wellbutrin before 4pm, my sleep problems might go away, or at least diminish. Between that and increased exercise, I might be able to avoid having to take anything for sleep. Cross your fingers for me on that one.
Babbled by Immi.
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Hm. When I took Wellbutrin, I was told to take all of it in the morning because it was apparently stimulating. Did it stimulate me? No! Still, it would have been nice if someone had indeed told you that. I hope changing up the time helps your sleep.
I was on Wellbutrin once but it threw me into a shaky hypomanic tailspin so I had to come off it. Let’s hope that changing the time when you take it does you some good.
WC – I’ve been on higher dose in am, and lower in pm, but at the moment half and half. It is stimulating to me CNS-wise, apparently from the hand tremors, but is also the only anti-depressant that doesn’t throw me into a major mixed mood so… Live and learn.
Laura – Oh that sounds not so nice.
Thanks both for the hopes n wishes