Adhd, bipolar or both?

[Hominid711]

Hi,I've very recently had a change of diagnosis from ADHD and mood disorder to BPD by a consultant psychiatrist, am awaiting a meds change and would like to learn about other people's experiences with

1. BPD, any type and degree: I want to understand why BPD (with or without ADHD) and not ADHD (with GAD/MDD),

2. Quetiapine for mood swings: what dose are you on and what is its effect on you?

3. Being off antidepressants: do you cope and does Quetiapine improve your mood?

As to background: I'm a 57y old academic, good at what I do, currently subject to disciplinary action (for misconduct but this won't hold. Real reason is retaliation after 12m whistleblowing and complete disregard of my mental health ie disability discrimination) and going to court. The wait for trial may be years and my mental state hasn't been great so I hope the meds change will work. I utilise psychology as well but meditation does not work for me. I have mainly contributed to CHADD's adult ADHD forum here.

Many thanks.

[Silverunicornspirit]

Quetiapine - Hi, I take 250 mg of Quetiapine. 150 mg at night and 50 mg 2 times a day. I have found that in time, Quetiapine affects your sleep with pains in your legs. These pains are unbearable. I have discussed this with my GP, there is nothing they can honestly do. I'm hoping to see my Mental Health Specialist soon and maybe he/she could help me.

[Hominid711 in reply to Silverunicornspirit]

academic.oup.com/ijnp/artic...

Hi,

I'm a GP so will immediately Google this when new to me. So I found the above pretty much immediately. There will be more obviously but this one is already quite interesting. You could continue to find stuff by googling RLS quetiapine leg pain side effect treatment etc in different combinations. RLS includes leg PAIN as well. Not good that your GP "can't do anything." Didn't they even suggest they would be asking Neurology for advice?? Anyway, in the article, case 5, the patient receives Pramipexole, the one and effective treatment so why not forward this to your GP? And in an earlier part of the article it is suggested to do blood tests for iron, rheumatic conditions, ?myositis etc

Show them.

Should shame them into action.

And thanks for the forewarning!

[Hominid711 in reply to Silverunicornspirit]

And this very new review of the academic literature.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

No need to read everything. I often jump to Conclusions at the end and from there read backwards over the bits of management or treatment of the condition that interest me.