Kailyn Lowry Reveals Shocking Medical Misdiagnosis — Find Out What It Is!

The 23-year-old discovered that she was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder during a recent episode of The Doctors, and was provided a new diagnosis by Dr. Shala Modir.

“She was having some mood swings and irritable, but she didn’t actually meet the technical criteria for having a hypomanic episode,” Dr. Modir said. “So to have a diagnosis of Bipolar 2, you have to have had one depressive episode and then you need to have symptoms like an inflated grandiose mood, increased activity levels, increased energy, plus three or more symptoms from the main bipolar criteria from at least four days. In our case, Kail didn’t meet that criteria.”

“‘Unspecified’ is basically that she doesn’t have bipolar disorder,” a friend of Kailyn told RadarOnline.com. “She just has the potential — based on family history and personality traits she has — to develop it. Bipolar 2 is bipolar disorder.”

For now, the mom-of-two is staying under close clinical observation and will have“routine visits” with a therapist. But because the diagnosis is so new, Isaac and Lincoln's mom“isn’t even sure” yet how often she will have to visit a doctor.

Fortunately, she doesn’t have to take any medications.

“She doesn’t have bipolar so she doesn’t need them and she’s not treating anything,” her friend said. “She is doing everything the psychiatrist said: She is trying to be healthy as possible and get enough sleep.”

“Kailyn feels good about it,” the source added. “She thinks it is the right diagnosis.”