Oh I got it thank you. Silly I forgot about display names. Do you think putting the space between atypical and bipolar makes it a little clearer?

I don't understand.
I've been atypicalbipolar on other sites. Mainly because my experience of mania is so dysphoric instead of euphoric/what people think mania is usually.

So while I'm slightly bummed when Boston sports teams lose big championships, I'm secretly happy that I don't have to deal with a championship parade.

They added lithium and seroquel to the lamictal. Finally dropped the effexor.

900mg of lithium my labs were "fine" (but my thyroid level wasn't) and I was getting side effects I didn't know were side effects. Eventually I started to slowly wean off it.

So it turns out lamictal *is* helping.

In Jan 2017 they gave me zyprexa and started me on lamictal. I was already on effexor so they continued that. I refused to take zyprexa after discharge so they discontinued that thankfully. I spent years thinking lamictal did nothing because I ended up in the hospital 3 times after...

I was extremely lucky that all my stays were at MGB hospitals. All my care is through MGH. (For better or worse)

I thought I just needed a sleep study but the mania flares were brought on by fewer sleepless nights as it went on. The last admit they changed my dx and switched my meds around.

So the first hospitalization in 2017 they just chalked up to the steroids. I hadn't been on a super high dose. I had tapered in the fall of 2016 only for my Crohn's flare symptoms to come back so I was on prednisone again.

But I was hospitalized in September, June and November 2018 w/o steroids.