Ok long story short. Over the summer I had trips to the ER, had all sorts of blood tests, urine tests, stool tests, and everything. I've even had a CT scan from torso to pelvis show up negative and yeah now I'm paying for it.
So I was recommended to see a psychologist, and he got together with my Dr. and decided to prescribe Paxil, and Ativan also (because of severe insomnia). Over the summer I felt like I was going to make it...
Then I my doctor at school told me I was getting severe side effects from paxil and then switched me to zoloft (which he claimed had less side effects.) Since before then I was taking a 1 mg Ativan twice a day. Once in the morning and once at night. He told me to get off the Ativan and use it only when absolutely necessary.
I was awake for 3 days without sleep.
So I go in on the third day and tell them what's up and they say I'm Bipolar? And so they gave me directions to take Depakote ER 500mg (two in the morning, one in the p.m.) and Xanax .5 mg.
So far, I'm not impressed with this expensive bipolar medicine, and it seems like the only thing that is helping at all is the xanax, which seems like the only way I can sleep these days.
I have headaches every single day now that just feel like intense pressure like my head is going to explode. Severity comes and goes as it pleases. I barely sleep. I'm always nauseous and constipated. I feel like a strange popping sensation inside my head is going on but, doctors claim it's anxiety. I see floaters everywhere I go, especially outside in the sun and they only have shown up recently. (I have poor eye vision by the way), and to top it all off, my grades are going down the toilet.
Am I by myself? Can anyone relate to this at all or am I just shooting in the dark? Sometimes I just want to take every single pill that's ever been prescribed to me all at once and just end it, because it seems to be my best option, only I have too much to lose---meaning I only don't want to hurt immediate family.
I'm seeing a therapist, but I'm way to skeptical of psycho-babble for it to help very much.
So I was recommended to see a psychologist, and he got together with my Dr. and decided to prescribe Paxil, and Ativan also (because of severe insomnia). Over the summer I felt like I was going to make it...
Then I my doctor at school told me I was getting severe side effects from paxil and then switched me to zoloft (which he claimed had less side effects.) Since before then I was taking a 1 mg Ativan twice a day. Once in the morning and once at night. He told me to get off the Ativan and use it only when absolutely necessary.
I was awake for 3 days without sleep.
So I go in on the third day and tell them what's up and they say I'm Bipolar? And so they gave me directions to take Depakote ER 500mg (two in the morning, one in the p.m.) and Xanax .5 mg.
So far, I'm not impressed with this expensive bipolar medicine, and it seems like the only thing that is helping at all is the xanax, which seems like the only way I can sleep these days.
I have headaches every single day now that just feel like intense pressure like my head is going to explode. Severity comes and goes as it pleases. I barely sleep. I'm always nauseous and constipated. I feel like a strange popping sensation inside my head is going on but, doctors claim it's anxiety. I see floaters everywhere I go, especially outside in the sun and they only have shown up recently. (I have poor eye vision by the way), and to top it all off, my grades are going down the toilet.
Am I by myself? Can anyone relate to this at all or am I just shooting in the dark? Sometimes I just want to take every single pill that's ever been prescribed to me all at once and just end it, because it seems to be my best option, only I have too much to lose---meaning I only don't want to hurt immediate family.
I'm seeing a therapist, but I'm way to skeptical of psycho-babble for it to help very much.