massive mood swing suddenly help

[hell1971]

i think i have been hypomanic for a few days and I have just had a huge swing down litterally within minutes, one min i was hypo then i felt a wave come over me and now i am holding back the tears, I suddenly feel like i cant take it anymore, whats wrong with me, i have only managed a short period of stability will this be how it is now.

[hell1971]

Yes you are right corelbelspar, this has happened several times during my recovery since my major episode last year, I saw my doc on monday and he said I was in a mixed episode again arrrrrrr, he doubled my olanzapine and that seems to have done the trick, once he gets me stable again he wants me to change meds because the olanzapine although great as an emergency backup it has caused me massive weight gain so he wants me off them. Unfortunatley I have alot of stress in my life and so it seems everytime something happens it flips my mood. My daughter aged 9 has just been diagnosed as bipolar, as you can imagine this is a huge stressor for me as we deal with the aftermarth and come to terms with it, especially as I feel imense guilt. I am trying hard but it just seems to happen my mood flips usually to hypomanic first then mixed its horrible and I hope that I can get stable soon because im not sure how much more I can take.
thanks for all your support  

[ILADVOCATE]

There are a variety of reasons a person might build up a tolerance to an antipsychotic over time and I am under clinical experiment for one of them. However, as medications go especially mood stabilizers its common for a person to have change from one medication to another over the course over their life time. That doesn't mean another medication won't work. Just keep trying available options as they are approved and within your psychiatrist's judgment.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

Well I just read a little bit ago that a guy with Schizophrenia had been taking a drug for 40 years and it worked really good and then suddenly it just stopped working without warning.  I don't know if that's the same thing as building a tolerance.  It kind of worries me about my own treatment to have read that and your guys' problems.

[Twelvesgirl]

that happens to me too, all too often lately. i've thought so much about why. i've come up with reasons like: lack of self control, stress obviously and i have no idea how to deal with it. i get sick of thinking that i need to be hospitalized, but then 30 minutes later i'm smiling and happy again like i was an hour ago before the meltdown. i don't know what to say, i rarely do on this forum, i'm just full of questions. i'm just on lamictal right now for bipolar and topamax for migraines. i'm afraid if i tell the doc she may want to add an AD, this terrifies me. maybe i should switch to lithium, maybe the lamictal isn't working, and i've heard so many good things, except blood stuff about lithium. i don't know. i really don't know, my moods kindof are all over the place. or maybe i should get on a vitamin regimin, i don't know again!

[paranoid_cataclysm]

Have they ever considered that you build up a tolerance to meds?  I can't remember if I ever asked you that before because my memory is just horrible.  I don't know much about how that works or how long it takes or anything like that but it seems like all the meds you try stop working after so long from your posts.