Hello everyone,
I will try to keep this as short as possible. My spouse has been dx'ed with so many things it has been confusing. Recently, new psychiatrist believes she is bi-polar. Her mother was bi-polar, and had manic episodes. Looking back, I could say during our entire marriage, my spouse was most likely in a mixed-state or hypomanic. This post is not about that type of history though.
Previously, my spouse was on 150mg effexor w/75mg seroquel. This helped for two months, but the "consulting psychiatrist" was only willing to see my spouse for 3 months, then it was back to the MD. MD was too scared to do anything, and I think my spouse exacerbated the issue by only ever mentioning the depressive episodes.
1.5 years waiting for a new psychiatrist. FYI, she never did well long term on effexor or pristiq, it was scary at times, Pysch decided to half the effexor because they thought it was all just GAD, and possibly the effexor was contributing to the GAD. This reducing of the effexor triggered discontinuation syndrome, and later a manic episode. My spouse, on her own volition starting tapering her effexor at a rapid pace, because of the episodes.
Finally got back to the psych, and was dx'ed bipolar. Put on tritation of Lamictal, eventually up to 75mg. Was also given 5mg of Olanzapine at night for three months. That was a week ago, and the anger episodes have been extreme. She is seeing the psych today.
Given the med story above, when she was off/reducing effexor, she started getting this extreme fibromyalgia about two hours after taking the seroquel, and it lasted for over two hours. It was bad. Now when she takes the Olanzapine at 5mg, she is experiencing the same fibromyalgia type pain. At 2.5mg, she doesn't, but it is not really effective.
As anyone else experienced this with these classes of medications? It doesn't seem severe enough to classify as neuroleptic malignant syndrome, but could it be? The psych doesn't seem to buy into this, but I have witnessed it in person, and she is not one to fake these types of things.
I will try to keep this as short as possible. My spouse has been dx'ed with so many things it has been confusing. Recently, new psychiatrist believes she is bi-polar. Her mother was bi-polar, and had manic episodes. Looking back, I could say during our entire marriage, my spouse was most likely in a mixed-state or hypomanic. This post is not about that type of history though.
Previously, my spouse was on 150mg effexor w/75mg seroquel. This helped for two months, but the "consulting psychiatrist" was only willing to see my spouse for 3 months, then it was back to the MD. MD was too scared to do anything, and I think my spouse exacerbated the issue by only ever mentioning the depressive episodes.
1.5 years waiting for a new psychiatrist. FYI, she never did well long term on effexor or pristiq, it was scary at times, Pysch decided to half the effexor because they thought it was all just GAD, and possibly the effexor was contributing to the GAD. This reducing of the effexor triggered discontinuation syndrome, and later a manic episode. My spouse, on her own volition starting tapering her effexor at a rapid pace, because of the episodes.
Finally got back to the psych, and was dx'ed bipolar. Put on tritation of Lamictal, eventually up to 75mg. Was also given 5mg of Olanzapine at night for three months. That was a week ago, and the anger episodes have been extreme. She is seeing the psych today.
Given the med story above, when she was off/reducing effexor, she started getting this extreme fibromyalgia about two hours after taking the seroquel, and it lasted for over two hours. It was bad. Now when she takes the Olanzapine at 5mg, she is experiencing the same fibromyalgia type pain. At 2.5mg, she doesn't, but it is not really effective.
As anyone else experienced this with these classes of medications? It doesn't seem severe enough to classify as neuroleptic malignant syndrome, but could it be? The psych doesn't seem to buy into this, but I have witnessed it in person, and she is not one to fake these types of things.
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