MyaCooper
06-08-2009, 09:44 PM
I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, manic affective some years ago. I've always been resistant to medication treatment until recently because my boss (I work at a bar) and some friends were getting concerned about my sex life and random vacations.
So my doctor put my on Seroquel for the mania and Adderall so I could focus on something longer than 20 seconds (diagnosed with ADHD when I was 17, am 22 now)
What I've noticed is that days that I decide not to take my adderall, I pretty much have a physical incapability of waking up. Yesterday I was awake for all of like 3 hours all day. So days when I do take my adderall, it helps keep me awake, but I still feel extremely sedated to the point that I just really don't do anything all day.
I am a web designer, and no matter how I try, when I sit down to do work...I just can't do anything.
Though I've only been on the meds for 2 weeks now, it's put me in a position where I'll do 2-3 lines of coke before my work shifts on the weekends so I can have some energy to get things done.
I have an apt with my doctor on the 18th, and I'm going to tell him this is making me zombified. But I'm wondering if anyone else has had these issues, or if there is a better medication I could take?
I've been told medication would highly benefit me, so I want to give it a go. But I don't want my reasons for not having manic episodes to be me not being able to wake up...
So my doctor put my on Seroquel for the mania and Adderall so I could focus on something longer than 20 seconds (diagnosed with ADHD when I was 17, am 22 now)
What I've noticed is that days that I decide not to take my adderall, I pretty much have a physical incapability of waking up. Yesterday I was awake for all of like 3 hours all day. So days when I do take my adderall, it helps keep me awake, but I still feel extremely sedated to the point that I just really don't do anything all day.
I am a web designer, and no matter how I try, when I sit down to do work...I just can't do anything.
Though I've only been on the meds for 2 weeks now, it's put me in a position where I'll do 2-3 lines of coke before my work shifts on the weekends so I can have some energy to get things done.
I have an apt with my doctor on the 18th, and I'm going to tell him this is making me zombified. But I'm wondering if anyone else has had these issues, or if there is a better medication I could take?
I've been told medication would highly benefit me, so I want to give it a go. But I don't want my reasons for not having manic episodes to be me not being able to wake up...