Post by MarkeyHi,
I think it would be interesting to know, how many medicines and which
ones we are taking.
Also, do you think they are working? What are the side effects?
Last 4 years... , 2 years after diagnosis, and has been 6 years of
really reclusive, not agoraphobic but just don't leave the
house....reduce stress to the point of gettiing notihing done and
letting everything slide...including nmo interest in my looks, persoan
hiygene, routine house keeping.....and more serious things like falling
behind on doing taxes, etc while qualifying for a refund......lately,
under $100 routine traffic ticket, let slidie has turned into a $700
failure to appear.....highly unreiable at about showing up fro routine
appointments..some social, ....some involving no shows fro already
paied for opera tickets.......I thinkk you see a pettern here.
The Meds in this 4 year period have been:
Mood stabizer, Lamictal 200, AD Lexapro 40 and Ambien uo to 1.5 tabs
of who knows.....the litte white ones on as needed Ambien have kept me
very comfortable , satisfied at thiss level of low functionality....far
better thn killing my self,, i can live with this condition.
No side effects at all....libido normal, weight nuetral ....never more
than +/- 5 lbs of normal weight since. Occasional dry mouth....not
worth noticing.
Suddenly this summer, stronly motivated to get back to work part time
and some form of more active dignified life resulted in vigilant use of
ambien....every night.....correcr amount has taken widly ridiculous out
of whack sleep cycle bak to routinely awake between 8-10AM every
day....and no longer much of effort to maintain...still on Ambien.
Same high motivation to actually deal with life's routine
stressors...not slide them....even address long slidden ones has
exposed me to much more stess than my almost not dead and that's fine
life style has added I feel so susseptible to i really can't deal with
slow progress....ick!........but things are definately getting
done...lltittle by litable...notaicable differnce..
......
Added 2 weeks ago.....Buspar....1/2 twice a day, ramping to target 1
tab twice a day this week. End of week two...../ Ambien switched up
to to Ambien CR, at same time.
Wntering 3rd week of new combo.
Serious cosmetic detal work.....amazingly sceduled this somer with
great results and no missed appointments......but.....2 weeks ago final
painful extractions.....with up to 8 per day Codine tylenol. 300....to
not quite deal with legitimate physical pain.....one week only. Second
week reduced to heavy asperin/tylenol use not nearly enough has thrown
slepp cyccle and general morale off.
Quel surprise......hy-hy- hypomania attack last 2 to 3 days........doc
says high end of mild hypomania, can you......and has persribed
something that I haven't quite gotten around to picking up yet....but
wil tomorrow. feeling happily down to llight hypomania today after 1
valium yesterday and a much needed very good 12 hours of sleep last
night.
So....don't know how well buspar is working....doc said it would be
noticable improvement in 3-4 weeks.......wrong first to weeks to
ivaluate. soc and i both think it was that legitimately needed codine
tyleonoal and accompqaniyiing paink, stress and shame at inability to
cope with this feeling.....not totally unexpected in this situation,
trigerred the hypo attack.
Will report back on how what ever he perscribed, just for a few days or
so....med to help bring me down.
Yet another good question, Mark.....thanks for posting.
Maggie
and yes.....still a little to high tonight but significanly better than
last two days.
Amazing that actually asking for help....really helps and is very good
for morale.