I’ve been noticing that my mood swings are getting more pronounced of late. Nothing absolutely frighteningly major, but obvious enough for people to notice and mention it to me and for me to mention it to my own personal man in a white coat (who isn’t a man and who doesn’t wear a white coat) over a series of sessions during the holiday period.

The upshot is that we’re going to try doing what is to me a scary thing – changing my medication. I’ve been (I feel) pretty stable on Tegretol for a long time now but obviously with this recent change in my stability that belief needs to be reexamined.

So, over the next fortnight I am phasing out the Tegretol and phasing in Depakote aka Valproate semisodium (the posh name).

I’m having mixed feelings about this development. I’m pretty aghast that the tegretol is failing after this amount of time but I’m pleased that I’m not going to be put on Lithium which I have an unreasoning terror of. So – we’ll see what happens. Hopefully it’ll be a clean replacement. Fingers crossed.