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Confused, oh so confused!

Fri, 05/27/2016 - 17:37
Hi I'm new here to this forum! I've been on bipolar forums for years and didn't feel I fit in there at all sometimes, moods, yup, but I have so many other disorders, and stuff I can't even explain at all! Like this pressure thing, and feeling funny, and blank. I'm really concerned I have been misdiagnosised with bipolar and ptsd and OCD, for years, oh and also hypersomnia and delayed phase sleep syndrome, and sexaomnia/ which I think is the epileptic type, I don't wake to alarms some days at all, and those days I feel funny, and feel I was jaw clenching and such... As I write, sometimes it's hard to think of the words or finish the sentence, or even type the word, I get half way thru a word and forget how to spell it for a second, been stuttering a lot, like speech impediment, and like feeling like I had a stroke, disorganized thoughts, lose thoughts fast, um... Feels like a empty ballon in my head. This can just happen in the middle of the day, or not long after I've woke up and had coffe and was ready for my day. Doesn't sound very bipolar to me. So I have sexaomnia, have had it for years, and just found out its in parasomniacs as well as people with temporal lobe epilepsy, which I have questioned having I'm finding out bipolar can be misdiagnosised in people with these petit mals, cause we run to a mental health care, instead of neurologist. But the meds are about the same.... Except I got a new doc; she didn't think I had bipolar, so she gave me antidepressants, those are a NONO I think for both bipolar and epilepsy I'm asking for a referral now.... Cause this is getting old, it's like I have 15 disorders and yet it may only be ONE! Anyhow I can't handle stress at all, and I got stressed and was on those meds, I went haywire, maybe like you, post ictal, maybe multiple seizure in my sleep, wasn't sleeping much at all thou, then I started like myoclonic in my legs; they would curl and shoot back out, the sent me to the hospital, and they got my background and just diagnosed me as physchosis and discharged me in the morning, gave me zyprexa and Ativan? I was scared getting shoved meds I have never taken, that was April 15! It's been over a month, they gave me seroquel and lithium now; I'm not getting better and my stutter returned again, like I'm chronic post ictal? I doubt I should be manic with pressured speech on 900mg of lithium and on seroquel.... This is very frustrating, cause this DOES not feel like the way bipolar is discribed, as just a mood disorder, this started getting like this and more frequent and closer together about 15 months ago I'm 36, and I'm really thinking its epilepsy now I NEVER hardly ever wake to alarm clocks so I can't hold down a job if I wanted to, and I've always wondered WHY can't I wake up to alarms and stuff, is it because I had a seizure in my sleep, then I become miss sleeping beauty, I swear it started at maybe like 19-20 years old maybe, I had a head injury around then too, but now it's worst, maybe I can actual relate on this forum :)

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