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MY BI POLAR BOYFRIEND JUST STARTED MEDS YESTERDAY AND THIS IS WHAT THEY GAVE HIM LAMICTAL ALONG WITH PAXIL 10 MLG.HE WAS MEAN AS HELL YESTERDAY HAD A WEIRD LOOK IN HIS EYES AND WAS JUST OUTRIGHT MEAN I KNOW IT TAKES TIME DO YOU THINK THE MEDS DID THIS OR MAYBE HE WAS JUST PISSED HE STARTED TAKIN THEM????IM GONNA GO OUT OF MY MIND IM PREGNANT AND JUST WANT TO BE PREGNANT FOR ONE DAY WITHOUT EVERYTHING ALWAYS BEIN HIS DISORDER I KNOW THAT SOUNDS SELFISH BUT IM FRUSTRATED AND SAD TODAY..

Hi, dragonfly!

After a little over a year of trying different meds./combos., my husband began taking lamictal last Oct. They start them off at a really low dose and build it up gradually. This means it can take a while to work. My husband began to show small improvements after a couple of weeks, and by the middle of December, I noticed that he was pretty much his old self. If your boyfriend just started yesterday, there probably isn't enough in his system yet to make a difference. But hang in there! It can work wonders and I know others here have also had positive experiences with it.

Terri

Oh baby girl......Lamictal has nothing to do with his moods right now. I take it but it didn't work for about a month. Now it is wonderful for me. Can you get away to stay somewhere else for a while, a couple weeks? Your one and only concern right now should be for you and your baby. Everything that goes on around you is affecting that. You must find all the peace & happiness you can right now.....

Love

Gloria

Dragonfly2, you are not selfish, and you are probably right in it being he is pissed over having to take the meds, some people have a really hard time in accepting they have the disorder, he might be one of them, it takes a while for the lamictal to build up in the system, as they have to start it at very low doses in the beginning, I am taking 400mg, right now, but started on 25mg, and it has made a world of difference to me, he might too be denying he might have to be on this medication for the rest of his life, paxil is a antidepressant, have taken it myself, was up to 40mg when I went off them. for a bipolar the safest way to add a antidepressant is to have a moodstabilizer in place which is what the lamictal is..

Take care of you and the baby, that is the most important thing right now, go to your families for a weekend, or hang out over at a girlfriends house just to get some peace and quiet..

Hi Dragonfly,

I am sorry you are having to deal with this while you are pregnant. I had to deal with my fiances crap, while, I was pregnant, too.

I was thinking that the Paxil might be making him manic. I have bipolar 1, and all antidepressants make me crazy. I am on lamictal, too. It works for my depression, but, not my mania. Some meds work right away. I had to have another med, while waiting for the Lamictal to get high enough. I am on 400 mgs, now, too.

I hope you have some family, or friends, who you can get some support from.

my family is great about it they say they could not deal with it and i say thats why GOD brought him to me lol however it is a painful journey i mean if i did not cry even for 3 days it would be a miracle im tryin to learn not to take everything so personal and to help him not hinder him we are learning to argue if that sounds healthy lol but before it was way worse he does scare me sometimes and i just walk away but i am exausted im gonna have this baby july 7th via c section and i am so scared because im on blood thinners from a blood clot i got 6 weeks pregnant and this is scary for me but i cant talk about me it has to be about him just kinda sucks im already a high risk pregnancy this is my 5th baby 1st from him i just wanna be pregnant and im worried how stressed this baby is gonna be when he is born trust me i take care of my body but cryin cant be good all the time be blessed :~dragonfly

Dragonfly2, do yourself a favor, take a break and get the hell away from him, the stress on you and on the baby isn't good for either of you, when the new baby comes you are not going to be in much shape to take care of the rest of the kids, never mind having to deal with him too, are you going to be able to have family or friends to help you with the new one? your not going to be able to be up and moving, the stress isn't going to help.

Dragonfly,

I take lamictal and I think it is working pretty well. One day is not enough to make a difference. He must have been in a bad mood or as someone else put it, he was mad because he had to take meds.

Pusgrove1. ::

Hi, I stopped taking my meds, one of them was lamictal, just like you said it seem to work at first but them I was back to my old self, and right now I am on my own, it is a struggle cause I am lost and don't know where to turn, I am so glad I joined, I finally have something to look foward to, chating with people just like me. It's great.

Post edited by: 2sides, at: 04/10/2008 18:45