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Old Oct 03, 2012, 06:18 AM
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I feel like I'm stocking up to open a pharmacy Went to the pdoc again yesterday and she decided to completely change my prescriptions. The only thing that has stayed the same is the cogentin, although I'm not sure why I am taking it still. She gave it to me the last time to counter the muscle aches I got from being on respirdone, so I don't know why I am still taking it, but I'm going to be a good girl and take it anyways.

So the first new on the list is my trileptal. Instead of taking one at night and one in the morning, I'm taking two in the morning and one at night. She then completely took me off of lexapro. Seroquel and Klonopin where also added to my regiment. I actually had to buy a pill organizer yesterday cause now half of my stuff is taken in the morning and half at night, and I"m sure if I don't have something to tell me I forgot to take something, I will forget.

Last night I took half a Seroquel to start (they are 100 mg so I took 50 last night) and this morning when I woke up I felt loopy to say the least. Being up for an hour and a cup of coffee has seemed to help, but after I take my daughter to school, I have to take two trileptal and a klonopin, and I'm afraid of going back to loopy-ville.

Not to mention if half a seroquel did that to me this morning, what do I have to look forward to tomorrow morning? And I did get my 8 hours last night. When I do go back to work, I will only get about 6 before I have to get up to get my daughter ready and off to school. Am I even going to be able to? And is taking so many "anti-manics" for lack of a better term, and no anti-depressant now going to sent me in a tailspin down, when no ladder to get back up?

Any advice or words or encouragement would be nice. I've only been in the meds game for a month and I'm already starting to feel like a lab rat.
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