My Primary Care Physician (PCP) knows his stuff and thinks I'm having a histamine reaction to something related to either my bipolar disorder or the lamotrigine I take for it. When I saw him last Monday, he grabbed my left forearm, turned it palm-up and (gently) scratched a tic-tac-toe grid into my skin. I couldn't resist and scratched an X into one square and he said, "Challenge accepted!" I lost the game (yes, its supposed to be hard to lose at tic-tac-toe, but I managed to) and the scratches all turned red which he said is a histamine reaction. So he gave me a laundry list of stuff to take: turmeric, Mg, fish oil and cetrazine which is a long-acting antihistamine. I just started my new regimen yesterday. I'll wait and see if this helps. I'm dubious. I read a case study in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry about a guy who developed an itch while on 200 mg/day lamo (my present dose), quit it, and the itch disappeared. He had some withdrawal problems, started lamo again, itch recurred, quit again, and itch vanished again. I told my shrink and showed her a copy of the article, but she sniffed at it and doesn't want to reduce my dosage. My PCP, who used to be a practicing Psychiatrist, agreed with her that I need to be on some type of antidepressant. So, I'm withholding judgement until I see if this new approach pays dividends.

So, you were Sue before BS? Who are you now? Did the BS prompt you to adopt a new name or did you completely xform into a new individual? Just curious.