KristiL’s Profile

Open Personality Disorders
Type: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

I suffer from borderline personality disorder as well as bipolar disorder, i am in therapy now,(again) to try to help myself learn how to deal effectivly with it

Open Eating Disorders

I am a emotional eater.. for as long as i could remember i was overweight. almost 5 yrs ago i had weight loss surgery. It helped me a great deal. I still battle the emotional eating sometimes. I will always see myself fat.

Treatments

Gastric Bypass Surgery Working / Worked

i went from 302 to 107 became anorexic, now i am up to 150. size 6

Open Family Issues

i think dysfunctional was invented by my family. from as far back as my grandparents to the now of my marriage dysfunction is it

Treatments

Music Working / Worked

music always give me peach

Psychotherapy Working / Worked

works well for me, just wish others in my family would get it

Talking Not Working

no matter how hard i try this doesnt work with my spouse. it does help with the kids and me though

Writing Working / Worked

i journal almost everyday. on here or in the computer or sometimes in just writing on paper.

Open Healthy Relationships

i am trying to learn ways to have a healthy relationship with my husband . we dont have a healthy one at all

Treatments

Patience Working / Worked

i do my best...sometimes it works

Writing Working / Worked

works for me

Open Physical & Emotional Abuse

IN short, i deal with emotinal abuse, verbal abuse from my spouse. he is the love of my life, but i cant for the life of me understand why he treats me the way he does.

Treatments

Talking Not Working

tried communicating with him, doesnt work. I do journal to vent and taht does help me some to get rid of the pain

Open Gastric Bypass Surgery

I wll be 6 yrs post op in may 2008.

Open COPD & Emphysema

My loving husband at the age of 31ys old was diagnosed with emphysema yesterday.

Open Degenerative Disc Disease

After a at work injury i was dx'd with DDD a few months ago. I also have osteoarthritis i am told. So many physical things going on right now and fighting the wc system to get the care i need. The pain is a 24/7 thing for me. It seems that heat is the only thing that helps relieve it some. Hopefully we can get me all figured out. All i know is that life is extremely hard right now. I am so limited on what i am able to do. My husband carries the load of most of the stuf i used to do,

Open Arthritis

I am 41 and have been recently dx'd with DDD and cervical arthritis, i also evidentally have osteo arthritis in my hips, i am sure i do in my hands and knees too. I am still in the beginning of the treatment faze of it all, It all came crashing in after i got hurt at work. The pain keeps me from doing so much. Even the simplist tasks. Boy the things we take for granted on being able to do :(

Treatments

Ibuprofen Not Working

Pain Management Clinic Considering

Relafen Somewhat Helpful

Tylenol Not Working

Open Bipolar Disorder

I am 41 and have been dx'd bipolar for many years now. 20 yrs pretty much is what i can remember. I take my meds faithfully. After years of therapy , med therapy i pretty much know how to handle the changes.

Treatments

Depakote Not Working

my hair fell out from it so they took me off it

Group Therapy Working / Worked

when i was first diagnosed group therapy for my bipolar really helped..It showed me that alot of what i was doing was from the bipolar NOT me.

Lithium Not Working

oh i hated this stuff. I had extreme problems with it. Lethargy, bloody stools (bleeding all the time). etc

Seroquel Working / Worked

It works i dont use it all the time but when i am having problems sleeping

Tegretol Working / Worked

Been on it for 20 yrs now and it has worked great for me. I have some memory loss but nothing like the other meds. The extended release worked better for me though. because of gastric bypass i cant take that type anymore

Wellbutrin Not Working

didnt work

Paxil Working / Worked

with the tegretol it works good for me. i still have lows but very very seldom the black tunnel lows unless something in my life is stressing me to the bottom

Open Chronic Pain

after a injury at work at a truck driver i was told by one of my drs i had cervicle degenerative arthritis. It has been a few months since the injury and dx and i am still in extreme pain. Medical care is on hold because of my employer. I am hoping to get into pain managment to get proper treatment soon

Treatments

Hydrocodone Somewhat Helpful

Physical Therapy Not Working

Relafen Not Working

i dont know if this helps or not. I have been on it for 4 months now. I am still in extreme pain with alot of physical limitations