I am horribly queasy but no other symptoms.
It could be the taco truck but I would think I'd be stuck in the bathroom. More likely it is probably my medication which is brutal on my stomach. I have spent a good 20 years sick to my eyeballs.
Not exactly how I wanted to spend my day off. Ugh.
Having said that, I was diagnosed in early September, 2006. I couldn't get an appointment with a prescribing doctor until November. I was off the rails crazy. I had a lot of time to think and I did some research.
(My sister sent me "helpful" material like a biography of a women with bipolar disorder that was not inspirational to say the least, and also an account of a suicidal man who ended up in a hospital - neither of which I needed to read in that state of mind and were thrown out)
I ended up reading "The Bipolar Survival Guide" which I recommend. It's very helpful. I gave my copy away. Anyway he talked frankly about the various medications and the fact that lithium, then the most commonly used drug, caused extreme nausea. I decided I was OK with that if I could get some control of my thoughts and moods!
So here I am a good 20 years later still sucking it up. I really do think it is the lithium; some days are just like this.
The fun part comes at pill time when I have to gag 3 more down with some sort of food and hope it digests!
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