Bipolar symptoms can be likened to a snowstorm: tiny snowflakes drift down until white-out conditions make everything more difficult. A person dealing with manic depressive illness experiences a flurry of troubling feelings and emotions, which make it hard to see the way ahead!

It is important to recognize and seek treatment for bipolar disorder symptoms because unlike snow that melts and dissipates over time this illness can worsen as the years go by.

Facts About Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder

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Many antidepressants can cause weight gain. Studies show that antidepressants can cause unnesscesary weight gain an average of 10-15%. I gained over 35 pounds after taking antidepressants.

Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) are effective medications for some people with depression who may not respond to other antidepressants. They also work for patients with panic disorder and bipolar disorder. The MAOIs approved to treat depression are phenelzine (Nardil), tranylcypromine (Parnate), and isocarboxazid (Marplan). But these drugs also show can cause unncessary weight gain. On average, patients gain between 10-15% in weight.

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Pfizer is currently marketing Neurontin as an oral medication for managing postherptic neuralgia, the pain that lingers after shingles has healed. This is an FDA-approved use, and studies have shown that Neurontin works to reduce patients pain. It is a good drug, with many useful applications and few negative side effects, but it has a surprisingly long and sordid past.

Neurontin was originally approved in 1993 for the treatment of partial seizures in adults and children, especially epileptic seizures. However, this limited market for a drug with so few side effects was not enough for the company, Warner-Lambert. The company set up a massive campaign to improve sales of Neurontin, and it worked. By 2002 Neurontin was a

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Depression is now recognized by doctor’s as a potentially serious medical condition. Gone now are the days when symptoms of depression were dismissed as “imaginary” or “self pity”. Not only is depression recognized as being a real illness, but there have been different forms of depression that have been recognized as “unique” and that require different types of treatment.

Some people have been diagnosed with chronic depression, or long term depression. This is a type of illness that can be a life long condition, but can potentially be controlled with proper medication. Other forms of this illness are as follows:

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Topamax is indicated (FDA approved) for the treatment of seizure disorder (epilepsy) and prophylaxis of migraine headache.

In the United States, the regulations of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permit physicians to prescribe approved medications for other than their approved label indications. This practice is known as off-label use. Some drugs are used more frequently off-label than for their original, FDA-approved indications.

Topiramate has a long list of off-label uses.

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