Living with it

I was diagnosed with type II bipolar disorder June of 2004, ON MY BIRTHDAY NO LESS! What a birthday present I gave to myself. It took a while for me to come to grips with the diagnosis. Honestly, I'm not sure that I understand. It took my psychiatrist a while to get my meds right. I was on Lamictal 200mg, Seroquel 200mg, and Lexapro 20mg. In May of this past year, for some reason, she took me off Lexapro. Still don't understand her reasoning for that. I started to go downhill from there. I tried calling her a week where I was really bad, but she was on vacation. I called my family doctor, who initially prescribed me Lexapro, and asked her to put me back on it. She really understood my situation, and though I was on the East Coast at the time, she called in a prescription to the nearest pharmacy. After I got back to Indiana, I wasn't sure how I was going to tell my psychiatrist that I was back on Lexapro. It shocked me when, on my first appointment after I got back, that she had to ask me what meds I was taking. I told her the three I was on, and all she said was "Hmm, I don't have record of that." Then she wrote me 'scripts for each and that was that. I have been "stable" ever since. I have my moments, but they weren't near as bad as they used to be.