PEIKay

I was diagnosed Bipolar type II at 16, and the diagnosis has been confirmed by each psychiatrist I have seen. I've been on and off medications - spent about 3 years trying to find the right meds, then I just gave up trying and determined that I had to learn how to manage it myself. Besides some severe PPD after my son was born, I have managed to control my symptoms fairly well, but I still have pretty bad days now and then. I found that going off of synthetic hormones made a *huge* difference. I still have the hypomanic and the severe depressive episodes, I still rapid-cycle occasionally, but I can manage it a lot better without meds since I'm not on the synthetic hormones. I find exercise and vegetables incredibly helpful with controling symptoms.

When life gets hard, I take a walk.

I'm 22 now, and separated from my husband, and will be filing for divorce in September. I was just diagnosed with PCOS yesterday, and I'm worried about how my brain will react to being on provera frequently.