After struggling so severely to get myself on track, my friends and husband rallied around me and I got my mojo back! On Friday, I felt like I was having a mixed episode of my bipolar 1 disorder. I was cranky and depressed feeling with racing thoughts that just wouldn’t slow down. I had a buzzing head, “brain zaps”, and a sour stomach. I’m sure the combo of not sleeping coupled with the 200 drop in meds made it worse.
So I called B., my best friend in our new(er) city, and she suggested that I exercise. I didn’t want to (I was too cranky, tired, etc.), but she made me promise to get going for at least fifteen minutes. So I grabbed an 18 minute 1 mile walking video. Then when I was finished I had found my missing mojo. I went to see my psychiatrist that night, and he explained that Seroqual (the drug we are taking me off) plugs dopamine receptors in the brain, so then the brain makes more. With Seroqual if you go down too fast, those dopamine receptors go on high speed, which totally explained those pesky mixed episode feelings. So he put me back up 100 milligrams, and after two days of sleeping through the night, I am myself again, with a twist. My mojo hasn’t left – I’ve been doing the walking video then finding a 10-15minute work out on Exercise TV on demand. Now if I only knew where my cleaning mojo has gone…
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