[Abundance]

Hi all... I'm not sure if this is place to go....... but my xabf.... is more than likely bipolar/rapid cycler. I like to think the opiate use contributes to this, but he says he has been clean now for a month, yet his cycles are so rapid still.

For example this past week..... 3 days solid in bed depression.... then 2 days of mania..... mixed in with a day or two of total moodiness and anger. When he calls me I have no idea "who" I'm going to get. Again, I used to think it was the opiates..... but I haven't seen him in a few weeks..... and so I can't really tell ...... he has always said he wasn't doing opies.... but then I later find out he was! So, he has lied to me about it before. I'm really confused.

I suffer with small amounts of depression..... but I feel that (especially with me being a codie)... my moods tend to mirror his...... or at least I am affected by his.... and this is all just from a phone call. It makes me obsessive.... like trying to figure out what is going on with him..... it literally paralyzes me. (okay... i know... i'm a codependent....).... but but but but...... how do other people who aren't codies deal with someone who is a rapid cycler.

He is not on medication..... he says that he set an appointment up with a "compliant pdoc" ... but it's not for another 3 months - March. He wants to do his own research and diagnosis and request certain meds..... which I am behind actually... but at the same time.... if he had a pdoc appt this week... then he could have tried 2 different kinds of meds in the meantime~ !
Trial and Error!

He has been on Paxil.... made him very angry... and violent. Zoloft/Klonie combo..... made him stupid and blah...

I think prozac would be good... and a friend has suggested to him Lithium.

How long do the opiates have to be out of his system before he can go on head drugs? What is the advised amount of time?

Sorry guys i know this is all over the board...... I feel totally unstable right now.