Bipolar Support Group

Hi all, I had a pdoc appointment last night. I told my doc about how a couple of days I had a lot of anxiety, then I was high one day, then depressed the next day.She said "You were cycling". So she decreased my prozac from 20mgs to 10mgs. Let's see if that does the trick.

Glad you had a pdoc appt and she adjusted your medication. It is nice when they listen and are proactive.

hi mariel -

i think that it's entirely possible that the anti-depressants may have played a part in the cycling. of course, i'm no doctor... but i can tell you that my personal experience with anti-depressants was not a good one...

i had not been diagnosed with bipolar yet, and my pcp thought that perhaps i has some pretty severe PMS (lol)... he prescribed Wellbutrin, which caused me to go OFF THE WALL... that was the birth of my ultra rapid (or ultradian) cycling...

i hope the adjustment takes care of things for you... let us know.

i am just starting on zoloft...do antidepressants always cause rapid cycling and or mania? i was trying to curb depression

My pdoc told me that anti-depressants normally do not cause rapid cycling as long as a person is on one or two mood stabilizers. I'm a rapid cycler and am taking a mood stabilizer, anti-depressant and antipsychotic. I'm also taking a sleep med at a low and PRN dosage for when I'm manic or can't sleep. I think this combination has served me well despite last night's manic episode. I've been stable for the past 3 weeks which is saying alot considering the fact that I haven't been stable for the past year and a half. mariel, I'll be crossing my fingers in the hopes that the decrease in your anti-depressant helps.