I still have not been contacted by the pdoc

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I do not have an assignmed pdoc I never see the same one as they keep leaving
But anyway due to the side effects I had to discontinue the meds and the gp wrote to mental health to sort out meds…
They haven’t contacted me and contacting them seems impossible.
So I am without meds… I mean I have not exactly made the effort as much as I should to contact them.

I am wondering if I want to take the meds too, as schizophrenia is no longer a possibility and they questionig the bipolar thing as well… If it is anxiety, then I am not sure I want to take them but I know I will struggle if I don’t .

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What symptoms do you have that made them think sz or bipolar?

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I had a psychotic episode 10 years ago. They then thought that might be sz. But because of the nature of the illness they ruled it out few months back. The pdoc I saw said one episode of psychosis is not enough to say I have schizophrenia. And about the bipolar, he has not completely gotten rid of the diagnosis yet. But he feels that if the anxiety is controlled so will the mood swings…

When I got the schizophrenia diagnosis, I had a feeling something else was going on and I thought
that because my moods were effected, I thought it was bipolar so I’d create a list of sympotms I thought I had that matched bipolar …

I have never ever been in hospital so they’ve never seen me in any manic state or depressive state. They’ve only ever seen a psychsis, once, 10 years ago.

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I’m glad they got rid of the sz diagnosis since you only had one episode. If you look back in life, have you ever gone through periods where you were on top of the world or didn’t need sleep, or became promiscuous or started gambling or spending money? Or periods where you bottomed out and were super depressed and inactive? That’s what bipolar looks like. My best friend is bipolar and it’s pretty obvious because she doesn’t take her meds.

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To be honest, I would go through phases spending money and thats why I thought I had bipolar but looking back I have never gone into debt or spent crazy amounts I didn’t have… I think alot of people spend money sometimes more than they want even if they don’t have bipobar but to me I thougth I had bipolar so I would try and analyse everything I did. Probably wrongly. I don’t think I have been suicidal depressed since I was 19. Yes I get low sometimes but doesn’t last very long.

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I have had two episodes and they say that I don’t have schizophrenia. apparently cos of my low med dose.

the first time round I was without insight for two thirds of year and still hearing voices the remainder of that year

if you can manage without meds that would be fab :slight_smile:

just be extremely careful to go straight back on meds at any serious warning signs, before you lose insight and it is harder to go back on meds

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It sounds like you have neither but I’m not a pdoc. I hope they figure out your true diagnosis.

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i hope u get to see a pdoc soon who can give a good diagnosis.

i personally am too uninformed to give u any advice.

take care.

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