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I am a 20 year old female. This last june, the homeopathic remedies that helped me with my psychosis for the previous 2 1/2 years stopped working. I had two very terrible psychotic episodes in june, and then I was fine for 9 weeks, and then the psychotic episodes became frequent. I have had very terrible hallucinations, and also very beautiful hallucinations. They are mostly visual and auditory, and rarely olfactory and tactile. Also starting in june, every time I get my menstrual period I get very suicidal. In addition (also starting in june) I began to have severe nerve pain on the skin of my entire back, which has now spread to my entire torso. In the past I wore a flannel shirt backwards and unbuttoned, because the pain was intensified by anything touching it. Now on bad days I cannot wear a shirt at all. One thing I found out recently is that if I focus my energy on being intensely happy, the pain goes away- but it is really difficult to be intensely happy all the time. Starting in the last 2 months, every time I get stressed out I feel nauseous and get head aches. A few times I have vomited, and one time I had my first migraine. In june I did not have any injuries or surgeries, nothing out of the ordinary happened. The doctor I went to today told me to make an appointment with my psychiatrist. I have been seeing a psychiatrist for 5+ years and the medications prescribed by them have rarely worked- the best thing that worked was the homeopathic remedies- until june. I do not have a mental health diagnosis because my insurance company won't pay for the assessment I need to find out what my diagnosis is. My doctors have not given me a diagnosis for my nerve pain. For my mental health, my medications have been changing very frequently, as none of them have been working as far as I can tell. Right now I am on welbutrin, geodon and effexor. I also take gabapentin and meloxicam for the nerve pain, which do not seem to do anything. I need to know what would cause the three symptoms- medication not working for psychosis, severe nerve pain, and feeling suicidal while menstruating- and also what I need to do/take before my next menstrual cycle. I just looked up ayurveda medicine so I will give it a try. My diet is pretty awful because I have an eating disorder, before I would go back and forth between eating very little and eating a lot, but now that I take the geodon I have to eat 500 calories twice a day, so I am pretty good about eating three meals a day now- but it is not very much healthy food. I have been eating things like peanut butter and jelly waffles, dried mangos, yogurt with jelly, french bread with butter, beans. I am vegetarian and extremely picky, so that combined with the eating disorder makes it difficult to both eat and find food to eat. I try to stay very hydrated, but don't do it very well, so my pee is usually a clear color or very very yellow. I am extremely constipated. My friend tells me I have piercing eyes. I am also tired all the time, but have a difficult time sleeping. In july I ran away from my parents house, because I was very paranoid of them for no good reason. Also they do not agree with my lifestyle. I have been unstably housed since. I have spent nights in the psychiatric hospital, friend's couches, a housing program, in my car, and one night on the street. Because of my severe depression I rarely exercise, and I am currently not employed. I have many good friends. I am currently living with two very good friends who deeply care about me. I try not to talk to my parents but that is difficult because they pay for my medical expenses and they struggle with animal neglect, and I worry about my pets that I left behind. Again, nothing out of the ordinary happened in june. If this all started in july when I moved out that might have made sense.


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