Information and opinions on health from rapunzel at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/3140/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/3140/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/3140/index http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/3140/17238/side-effects Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:16:00 -0500 rapunzel i wonder, if any of you all that have taken depakine 500mg to 1000mg have had the side effect of skin ichiness, but when you take the mood stabilizer seroquel, you dont have this side effect....????As far as weight gain, when someone is new to a drug, i found at the begining of depakine and also seroquel there was some weight gain,,,but you have to mentally control your eating and choice of foods...of course when i was on some heavier drugs... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/3140/17238/side-effects http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/3140/17019/make-difference Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:34:00 -0500 rapunzel I know i am bipolar but which one? I never asked my pdoc.  I know I had some bad crashes, refusal to take meds, heheh didnt believe i had something wrong with me, but then again, had so much going on in my life, now i can laugh, that mania can really get you going, and can you joke about stuff, oh man...lets see, where was I?  i was hospitalized 3 times, for 10 to 15 days each, i think...probaly should check on those hospital records,... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/3140/17019/make-difference http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/3140/16854/brain-body-bipolar Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:02:00 -0500 rapunzel I am always curious about the brain and the ability of people,, doctors, how they are able to really know how to treat our differences of the brain and the DSM symptoms... What we have Peet scan of the brain where is the most activity going on, i dont know if a lot of doctors are doing this, i read somewhere.  When people obsess and worry, this takes place in a part of the brain, people use drugs, alcohol or pertake in... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/3140/16854/brain-body-bipolar http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/3140/16795/bipolar Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:00:00 -0500 rapunzel hi, thanks everyone for answers and support. Let see, let me just ask what is at the top of my brain? can one be on only one medication for stabilization and for how long?  Say just for maintenance? or this doesnt work for long? For example, i am on depekine and seroquel and then when everything is going ok then only depekine? Do you have to have a mood stabilizer?  I take also The vitamins b complex, but it wasnt strong enough for my... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/3140/16795/bipolar http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/3140/16774/anxiety Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:18:00 -0500 rapunzel The last two weeks i have been busy packing and booking reservations for my trip with my daughter to put her in college.  I have noticed more emotional outbursts because my daughter is leaving, less sleep but adequate about 7 hours, but shakiness and tremours and one panic attack, anyways went to the doc and he put me back on seroquel 200 mg, I had been off it for approx. 2 months, and maintained on depakine 500 mg.  In anybodys... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/3140/16774/anxiety http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/3140/16724/increase Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:26:00 -0500 rapunzel i just went to my doc, am taking a trip to states, enrolling my daughter in college, will be there for 2 months visiting with my family, felt in the last week very emotionally, teary, stressed, sleep getting less during the last week, and yesterday one panic attack and paranoia, so went and with tears doc agreed and prescribed seroquel 200mg and my depakine 500 mg once a day, i just felt like a failure, dont want the flat effect, want to be able... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/3140/16724/increase http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/3140/16660/hypersexuality Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:00:00 -0500 rapunzel  Any advice on traveling being bipolar? i know, sleep, exercise, eat well, take meds...What is the part of bi polars that are on the depressive to do what the maniac do?, block it out?  Yep that is good..When we look for triggers good and bad how do we fix that part of us? by being aware of them? then we can better be in control?  Say that certain music gets us real happy, we dont play it because we remember that when we were... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/3140/16660/hypersexuality