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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 49593" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I'm going to join on the Prednisone is a steroid bit. I took Prednisone for a year and I have bipolar II, but get more depressed than manic. On Prednisone I had the happiest year of my life :smile: I was literally "high" all year, although I didn't realize it at the time. I was also prone to going "over the top" and raging a lot, and I was 27, not 7. I think it may be best to deal with allergies with using only one thing--tissues--unless the allergies are life threatening, like asthma. Without question, steroids can cause moodswings, rages, and mania. When my kids allergies kick up (and they don't HAVE moodswings) I choose to only give them a box of Kleenex. All of those allergy medications can cause weird reactions, and you never know if they will. As for myself, I have bad allergies, but even Bendadryl soups me up, so I do the tissue thing too and just live with the annoying allergy symptoms (and wait for winter, which I love). Depakote is a mood stabilizer that takes eight weeks to kick in. If you don't wait eight weeks, you haven't given it a long enough chance to work. It also needs to be at a therapeutic level or it also wont work. My daughter took it and tossed it in the trash saying "It makes me stupid. I can't think." She was 19 and old enough to realize the cognitive dulling. Try it. It may work. If it doesn't, or there are bad side effects, there are other mood stabilizers. Depakote can also cause weight gain. Steroids can mess with the Depakote, causing it not to work. I personally have never felt even a twang of a mood swing from any antibioltics. It's always been fine with antibiotics :smile: Good luck!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 49593, member: 1550"] I'm going to join on the Prednisone is a steroid bit. I took Prednisone for a year and I have bipolar II, but get more depressed than manic. On Prednisone I had the happiest year of my life [img]:smile:[/img] I was literally "high" all year, although I didn't realize it at the time. I was also prone to going "over the top" and raging a lot, and I was 27, not 7. I think it may be best to deal with allergies with using only one thing--tissues--unless the allergies are life threatening, like asthma. Without question, steroids can cause moodswings, rages, and mania. When my kids allergies kick up (and they don't HAVE moodswings) I choose to only give them a box of Kleenex. All of those allergy medications can cause weird reactions, and you never know if they will. As for myself, I have bad allergies, but even Bendadryl soups me up, so I do the tissue thing too and just live with the annoying allergy symptoms (and wait for winter, which I love). Depakote is a mood stabilizer that takes eight weeks to kick in. If you don't wait eight weeks, you haven't given it a long enough chance to work. It also needs to be at a therapeutic level or it also wont work. My daughter took it and tossed it in the trash saying "It makes me stupid. I can't think." She was 19 and old enough to realize the cognitive dulling. Try it. It may work. If it doesn't, or there are bad side effects, there are other mood stabilizers. Depakote can also cause weight gain. Steroids can mess with the Depakote, causing it not to work. I personally have never felt even a twang of a mood swing from any antibioltics. It's always been fine with antibiotics [img]:smile:[/img] Good luck!! [/QUOTE]
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