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Originally Posted by touchingsaturn
if you need to see your doc sooner than that, just call and let him/her know what you're feeling & see if you can be worked into the schedule... the worst they can say is "hell, no".. which might be a good indicator to put out feelers for a more flexible doc...
like you, my "normal" self is pretty upbeat, bubbly & outgoing.. smiley and generous of heart... and having lived with this mess in my head for over 16 years... good, bad, and all the ugly... i can testify that you can get that back.. you might not get it 100% of the time, but with the right cocktail in the right dosages, you can get back to being YOU most of the time...
my advice: whenever you feel something just isn't right... tell your doctor... in many ways you have to be your own mental health advocate... you gotta be willing to fight for yourself..
and i can relate to the freakishly tired... my doc finally pointed out to me the right word was "sedated"... which is really much more accurate... a ridiculous heaviness to my muscles.. no amount of coffee can keep me up, need to prop my eyelids open with toothpicks & sugar cubes kind of tired... my culprit was too high a dose of geodon (i used it problem free for years, then suddenly it started causing daytime sedation... now i take a much smaller dose)...
and the craving sugar... yeah, i get that... though mine was carbs.. all kinds of carbs.. for six months straight & i never got full.. my culprit: abilify... soon as i came off it & it got out of my system, my apetite went back to "normal" ... now if i can just lose the 60 lbs i gained whlie i was on it...  if you had told me drugs could make you eat different/more, etc before that experience, i would have had a hard time believing... but now i KNOW better...
*hugs*
oh yeah, welcome back to pc  |
Thats funny what you said about the sugar cubes and the toothpicks and the coffee....that is how I feel most days lol....I used to be one who got all hyped up, bouncing off the walls on caffeine....and now I can drink a ton of it and still go to sleep....I could probably sleep 24 hrs if my life allowed for that....I cant quite pin point it though. Im not really on a high dose of anything....but I really think its the stupid antidepressants....and I wonder if they upped my Topamax if it would make me more hyper...heck, I dont know anymore....its like we are all one big science experiment...stand back and see what this one does lol....and my PDoc is a very nice man, but hes such a quiet and laid back mousy thing....and when I mentioned maybe an ADHD amphetamine type thing for energy to take in the morning, he gave me the strangest look. You would have thought I was asking for his packet of blank scripts to take home for myself. The only reason I asked is because I read that some people take a low dose of ADHD meds in addition to their others for energy....I'l see what the week brings and I may have to call him back and pay a visit...
Anyway....I tend to rattle on...sorry.....
So you are on Geodon? Do you like it? I havent heard too much about it...do you take it in combo with something else?