Category: medication

Clearer Thinking and Feeling Goooood….

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As I wrote in my Two-Day entry from Two-Weeks ago, I am now on slightly LESS medication. Oooooh, yeah. This feeeels gooood.

I know that the majority of the people that read my blog may have no idea what it is like to lower medications I take, but just believe me when I tell you that “my brain” feels so much clearer. Why? With less of these side-effects, I can think more as a “normal person”.  I can think better about EVERYTHING again.

I was out-of-town last week and I didn’t have a chance to visit my psych and got home too late to be with her this week. (I know there are now tears coming from YOUR eyes, just as mine)

The ONE thing that isn’t fixed (and probably will never get better) is my “speaking normally” because I have a hard time at it.

YELLING is GREAT! (back of the brain is where that is done from)
Singing is Super! (very small portion of the brain directly in front of the YELLING part)

Speaking normally is using the “frontal portion” of the brain.
AKA- My f’ed up portion of the brain is where I just have a HARD TIME getting the words out like a normal person. Just sounds like crap.

So, I’m happy “enough” for the time being.

Oh, yeah…
I started a new book just last night!
“Is it good??”
I already have tears in my eyes….

So, I am personally … Feeling Happy for my Life … Reading a Book and Crying … Wha??

I’ll tell you about the book LaTeR.

Not quite what I thought…

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Not the problem that I thought, which is a good thing. I went to the doctor on Friday and she said “no, a seizure is not what the problem is.” It is a side effect of an overdose of my medication. I have all these doctors that are working with me with all the same meds and I just need to get all my meds all worked out and equalized. Soooo I’m getting the one lowered that I have have too much of in my system. So it’ll take awhile to even it out to the level it should be. FOR NOW… I can barely stand up and walk normally. I seem to be drunk (I guess that’s how being drunk would be…)

I did get my two other tests set for June while I was there (at least a good thing was got out of this). Get another SPECT scan and the Functional MRI both set. Hopefully some other crap like this doesn’t happen that I need to blog about before then.

Medicine

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Having problems with the increase of my Lamictal. Made my right arm shake like crazy, even worse than it does. I could barely hold the money from the cash register while working at Walmart. So, I’m going back to where I was with it and then getting on a new med called Zonegran. I read up on that. Drowsy… Well, that is explaining all my meds already. Few other side effects I’ll have to pay attention to.