What To Do About "The Slave Thing"

[esclava]

So here's the deal - my nickname with all my friends (which of course means allllll belly dancers in my life, including my students and past teachers even) has been Slave since sophomore year in high school. It has no sexual or political connotations to me, and everyone I really care about refers to me as Slave with no qualms. I was just given the

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Re: Terrific Trileptal

[esclava]

I would also check with a knowledgeable gynocologist - it might not even be your own. i'm saying i strongly suggest if you're sexually active that you check with The Best Most Knowledgable Gyno in the area to find out his or her thoughts on your med combinations and make an informed decision on seasonal...and then let me know if it works because i really want to be able to skip a period, goddamnit! ;) The NuvaRing, I'm assued, works very well with Trileptal, and it's one of the coolest bc methods I've used...but you can't skip periouds on it like you can with the patches or seasonal. so definitely continue to look into that; you're doing a great job of staying on top of your meds and what your'e doing with your body right now, so good job, congradulations. it took me two years of stabilized normality before i got up the nerves and gathered enough information to become more active in my own treatment, which is a mission statement of my treatment facility's. They're great here, tho, and my pdoc's main objective is to keep me stable on as simple a plan as possible.
Which brings me to your question, which seems to be a matter of importance to you: why do some ppl get 2+ stabilizers and other luck out with just one. It's all from the horrible process of abusing your body and mind and emotions with switching around and finding what leads to the least vomiting ;)
I used to be on a ridiculous cocktail of mood stabilizers and anti-psychotics (seroquel mostly). I was still so bonkers, tho! I was still hallucinating and delusional, irrational and hard to manage. I was a mess and a burden on my family, and I thnk it was becuz of an anti-psychotic, depakote. I think that stuff jacked me up.
I'm just lucky now to be only one one mood-stabilizer, your friend and mine, Terrific Trileptal.
I was also taking seroquel just for the undeniable sleep inducing effects of The Fog - what I call seroquel cuz it douses my brain in fog that lasts about 20 hours - but my doctor saved my life and prescribed me Ambien.
If any of the information I tell you seems weird or manicky, it may be because i've taken my Ambien. It's a fantastic sleep drug. It may be helpful to you - if you were to NOT take the Trileptal in the morning and just have to suck it up and be active and busy all day, then take trileptal and ambien at night, you're sleep beautifully like a baby, with delightful and vivid REM dreams that leave you refreshed and ready to go exactly 8-9 hours later.
Maybe this gives you a useful impression of what all the drugs can do for a combined effect in regard to altering sleep schedules (the thorn in the side of any bipolar person). Any questions?