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Old Apr 06, 2012, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by costello View Post
Here and feeling fantastic!

Ok, "fantastic" is a bit of an exaggeration, but I'm having that light feeling you get when you've been in a funk for a couple of weeks and suddenly it shifts and you feel better.


Why?
This is a new pdoc that is the Medical Director and also specializes in neurology. She feels that because of my schizoaffective diagnosis I should be in a more therapeutic range of 120-160 mg on Geodon. Currently, I'm at 80mg and don't feel I'm a textbook case. Sure, when I'm overly stressed, like I was over the Xmas holidays, I could have benefitted from an increase but currently I don't think I'm as stressed as I was. But I must admit that I did experience an olfactory hallucination just last month and the month before I was seeing the stripes on the shower curtain move, but I believe it was just residual from the holiday's. The other thing is that I just hate how I feel when my meds are messed with. Brain fog and apathy are high on the list and I have a fear of being over-medicated. But then there's still the pdocs side to this argument of going up 20mg. I did suggest a compromise of 10mg to see how that goes first and she said I can do that initially but would like me to go up to 20mg. But now I'm not sure that was the right decision because sometimes my decisions suck, thus why I'm confused.
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costello