Groggy
Med change: 300mg Effexor, 200mg Lamictal, 10mg Abilify.
Ive been groggy today. I feel like an elephant has sat on my head all day long. I didn’t sleep last night. I guess it was because Ive been taken off the Zyprexa at night…but who knows. I bit the hell out of the inside of my mouth…I curled up in a ball and shivered all night long. I had interesting visual stuff going on. It sucked. I have a bad headache and my allergies are driving me crazy. I had been taking Allegra-D, but I think that added to my weirdness so I haven’t taken any today.
I was going to ride my bike with a friend today, but I decided that I probably shouldn’t ride on the first day of a medicine change. My friend doesn’t really understand. He doesn’t get why my medicine changes so often. Sometimes he tells me that Im not really sick…that the doc has just convinced me that I am. I didn’t really feel like talking about it, so I didn’t.
Im going to try to sleep….see what kind of fun-filled night this will be.
posted by Jil at 10:41 PM
8 Comments:
I have had friends like that. They would tell me to stop taking the medication and that I would see that I really am "normal". And, sometimes, I can be. Those who do not suffer, can not understand. Even if they have the best of intentions. I hope your med change works out for you.
Take care.
9:23 AM
hi Jil,
Of the 4 bipolar people in my family, I'm the only one on meds. I don't care what anybody says anymore, I know what's best for me. My pdoc just took me off of prozac & put me on welbutrin. Also, I tried to cut myself back on neutrontin, but i think i need to put it back to 1800 mg as prescribed.
You were wise to stop talking when you felt you didn't want to. I wish I'd been that smart at your age.
8:16 PM
It takes try and error and alternations to get the meds work for you. Have done it many time and now they are cut to a few.
3:17 AM
I just got on lamictal a while ago. the ramping up was horrible. I was so lazy, then I got super manic and my p-doc doubled my lamictal dose and quadrupled my seroquil. I took effexor several years ago when I was "normal." I hated it. I was in a very good relationsip at the time and the sexual side effects made me jsut as depressed as I was before. we went from having sex at least once per night to only a couple times per week and even then my abilities were reduced.
2:47 PM
Hello,
Has anyone heard from Jil, at all? I know she's not close to the coast down there, but Mississippi is a wreck up and down as far as I can tell from reading news reports up here in New England.
-Brian
10:35 PM
JIL LIVES!!! I JUST SPOKE WITH HER ON THE PHONE...HER AREA SUFFERED STORM DAMAGE--DOWNED TREES, POWERLINES, HOUSING DAMAGE, ETC., AND SHE WAS STUCK AT WORK AND COULD NOT LEAVE DUE TO DEBRIS AND EXTRA DUTIES THAT SHE HELPED PERFORM. (SHE IS LIKE THIS---WILL NOT LEAVE AS LONG AS SHE CAN MEET A NEED.) SHE CAN GO BACK AND FORTH FROM HOME TO WORK NOW, BUT STILL HAS NO INTERNET ACCESS DUE TO THE STORM. SHE JUST GOT CELL PHONE SERVICE YESTERDAY. SHE SAID TO TELL EVERYONE THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONCERN ABOUT HER WELL-BEING AND WILL POST JUST AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. RIGHT NOW SHE IS EXTREMELY BUSY AT WORK, THEN DOING CLEAN UP AROUND HER PROPERTY. SHE RISKED LIFE AND LIMB TO MAKE A FLYING TRIP TO SEE ABOUT HER GRANDPARENTS AND MADE IT BACK JUST FINE. SHE ALSO SAID THAT HER MEDS WERE FINALLY KICKING IN AND ON THE RIGHT LEVELS AND SHE WAS MUCH IMPROVED. I WISH YOU KNEW HER...SHE HAS THROWN HERSELF INTO HELPING EVERYBODY IN HER COMMUNITY--SHE IS HEADING TO CHURCH NOW, AND AFTERWARD WILL BE HELPING WHOEVER NEEDS HER TODAY. SHE IS AN EXCEPTIONAL HUMAN BEING. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING CONCERNED AND INTERESTED IN HER WELL-BEING.
8:19 AM
Thanks for taking the time to give us an update. I have been using direct email in an attempt to contact her. In my heart I felt and trusted that all was well with her. She has much yet to contribute to this world and she is only beginning. I knew that the moment we met in another place here on the net. Bless you and Bless Jil and her family.
1:35 PM
The REAL reason CYLERT is being taken off the market has NOTHING to do with the issue of liver toxicity. In my opinion, it has to do with the fact that it greatly enhances auditory abilities and sensitivity. As those of us in the Seattle Area who take CYLERT can keenly testify to is when Extremely Low Frequency testing (and other related testing) is taking place here. I'm sure that if it got out to the public and to all eager drug experimenters out there that you can have "super hearing" while taking Cylert, it might upset a few folks. If I elaborate any further, I'm sure I'll be getting a knock on the door by some nice fellas in black suits. Let the TRUTH be told.
7:04 AM
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