My boyfriend and I have been together for about 9 months. The past 3 weeks he has been on mood stabilizers to help with impulsive behavior that his doctor prescribed him on a trial basis and it has been TERRIBLE. They first had him on Gabapentin and Olanzapine. He was sleeping all day every day for a week and had severe anxiety and irritability. We have never fought so much in our entire relationship especially this last week. On thursday he went back for his appointment and told him I thought he was getting worse so they switched him off Gabapentin over to Oxcarbazepine along with Olanzapine still. Every day since he started the Oxcarbazepine he sleeps constantly but has many more symptoms. He gets uncontrollable hickups which cause him to vomit (unless he just randomly vomits which has happened as well), his eyes are hazey and droopy, he stumbles around with lack of coordination, SEVERE memory loss (he probably asks me the same question 3-6 times a day), horrible anxiety and irritability even worse than before. Last night he fell asleep before remembering to take his pill and this morning he was like normal, laughing and playing, he took his medication and by the time we made it to breakfast he was stepping back and forth anxiously waiting for a table and stressing over this or that, he even had an anxiety attack somewhere around two weeks ago. He yells and gets frustrated at me for no reason then 2 minutes later will be nice then start yelling again. I know there are symptoms with these medications but this is CRAZY and does not seem normal to me at all!! I feel as if he is reacting bad to the medication and needs to discontinue using them but he can't even see that he is acting not like himself and insists to wait the 4-5 days for his body to adjust! If someone could tell me if this sounds normal or if I should get him up and take him to a doctor it would be greatly appreciated
