PMS, hypomania, or both?

[eddie z.]

Hey, y'all!
Does anyone here experience hypomanic symptoms during "the period before your period?" I'm premenstrual now, but I also started a new antidepressant fairly recently and I'm not sure whether my restlessness, irritability, and insomnia are just PMS or if the new med is making me slightly manic. I've heard of PMS manifesting as depression or anxiety, but not mania. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Peace, love, and hugs,
Eddie

[51anna]

Hi Eddie,

I was always susceptible to mood-swings around my period and would be quite down for days before it started and then experience a definite upswing when it started. I often thought it was slightly manic, but I was never sure because it was always on the heels of being very down. And, it only lasted for two or three days. It's possible that the new med is causing this and I guess you'll know for sure if the mood continues.

Love, Anna

[eddie z.]

Thanks, Anna! I'm afraid it may be the med, which is a shame because I've had SO much trouble settling on a regimen. Well, we'll see in a few days, I guess.
Love and hugs,
Eddie

[In memory of miracle]

(( Eddie )) Hang in there!

[jazpoppy]

Eddie;

Hope you is feelin' betta!

Luv;

Jaz

[Michele2162001]

Hi Eddie,

I'm new here but I do have some experience with meds. At about 3 years sober I was more suicidal than I had ever been in my life. I went crazy, literally. I thought God was telling me to kill myself in radio songs, I would get in my car and leave town without telling anyone. I would sit in my car on my lunch break with a bottle of sleeping pills sobbing over what to do. My family caught on and my therapist sent me to the doc. I went through 6 different combinations, and lost my job in the process, before they found what worked. I went through every emotion you can imagine. I couldn't even leave the couch some days let alone the house. Thank God for my sponsor who also went nuts in sobriety.

Anyway, I didn't say all that to scare you. The point is that you have no idea how a medicine will react with you until you take it. Even then the effects may only be temporary. Add that with raging hormones and damn! My advice is to stay in constant contact with your doc about the symptoms you are having, do your research on your meds and pray, a lot.

Having been on my meds for 9 months now, I can't tell you how much better I feel. My husband will tell you I am a totally different person. It took months for that to happen but it did happen. Hang in there.

[namommy]

((((((((Eddie))))))))

Hang in there.

[eddie z.]

Thanks, Trish, Jaz, Michele, and Laurie!!

Welcome to SR, Michele!
:hello2

Why, you're just down the road! I'm in Winston-Salem myself. You're very fortunate that it only took months to get the meds right! It has taken over 20 years for me to get as well as I have been lately. Of course it didn't help that I was using for 18 of those years. lol. I take 9 meds plus a multivitamin. I'm hoping that I won't have to go back on mood stabilizers and be taking 10 meds, but I was a real be-otch today again, so something may need to be done. I'll let y'all know. Thanks again everyone!

Peace, love, and hugs,
Eddie

[liveweyerd]

When I first started my second anti-depressant I was very hyper. It just took awhile to get stabilized in my system, but when it did, I was glad for it. I mean I was out of control giddy.

[eddie z.]

Thanks, liveweyerd! I wish I were giddy. I'm just out of control bi*chy! LOL.
Love and hugs,
eddie

[rogersgirl6937]

eddie,

you might want to check with your doc or pharmacist about possible drug interactions since you're on so many different meds. if you're taking anything that isn't compatible with something else it can have all sorts of ill effects and also be very dangerous. take care of yourself, good luck and keep us posted on how you're doing.

love and fellowship,
renee

[eddie z.]

Originally Posted by rogersgirl6937

you might want to check with your doc or pharmacist about possible drug interactions since you're on so many different meds.

Renee,
Thanks! LOL. I AM a pharmacist. And all my meds are prescribed by the one doctor. I think between the two of us we're pretty on top of the interaction component of things. But I may look into it again. I really think it's just the one new med causing problems, but thanks again for the thought! I'm really glad that you know one can take these sorts of questions to a pharmacist.

Peace, love, and hugs,
Eddie

[Dawn10]

Hi Eddie--( we have to stop meeting like this )

I , fortunately didn't have a lot of trouble with depression after I got clean, but actually about a year before I was really depressed. I took a leave from work, started on meds and felt better after a few weeks. I did correlate it with my cycle and even though I have been off the meds several years, about every other month or so, I get real boo-hooey right before. The mania I noted was mostly when I was using. Every one's body chemistry is different and that is why meds are constantly being readjusted.
You have some good advice, keep in constant contact with your doctor and report what you are feeling. Another good resource is your pharmacist. He/she probably knows more about the actions of your meds than your doctor does.
At any rate, as my grandpa used to say: "This to shall pass"
:ny5

[eddie z.]

Thanks, Dawn!

about every other month or so, I get real boo-hooey right before. The mania I noted was mostly when I was using.

Yeah, I've had the depression coincide with right before, too. I was just wondering if anyone had mania as a premenstrual symptom.

Now, Dawn, YOU know I'm a pharmacist. Remember? From the MSN group? LOL. So I either know about the meds or can find out. I'm looking for PERSONAL experiences here. Thank you for sharing yours about being boo-hooey and the mania being from using. If I've ever been "manic" in the past, it was chemically-induced, too. But I guess hormones are chemicals, too, huh? I'll just have to see if this resolves with my period.

Peace, love, and hugs,
Eddie

[Dawn10]

Color my face real red! Or call it a moment of "midheimer's" --you know where the brain synapses are not connecting even at the young age of ( gulp) 48?

Maybe it is a chemical reaction with your hormones?

[eddie z.]

Originally Posted by Dawn10

Color my face real red!...Maybe it is a chemical reaction with your hormones?

Yeah, Dawn, I figured you had a little mental lapse there. But I'm glad that you also realize the utility of the community pharmacist! Too many people ask doctors things that would be better referred to a pharmacist.

Chemicals, chemicals. I guess we'll find out if it's my own natural ones or the pharmaceuticals. Or like you and my thread title said, some combination. I've been grumpy again today. I really don't know how I'm going to deal with my father-in-law being here...

Peace, love, and hugs,
Eddie