Thanks, Christina! I actually have LOTS of Abilify(!) The Rx kept getting filled for awhile, even though I wasn't usually taking it. I kind of figured, whatever, better to have it. (I've stopped them filling it for awhile now.) I don't know when I'll see a new pdoc. My primary retired, which shifted my date to be seen till the first week of February, when I will meet my new primary. That's when I can get a referral for mental health. Apparently I can't just set it up myself (I tried, and also tried to see if they could get me a referral before the appt. Nope.) So then of course, it becomes a matter of how long it takes to get in. A few years ago, I actually saw the person I hope to get set up with again. I just picked up my main psych meds the other day and still have 2 refills, so that should not be a problem.


I would have been fine continuing to see the providers I've been with these last few years, but at this point financially I'd have to go self-pay and it is cheaper for me to go to people through my insurance. So change it is.



Thanks, WC! I've realized that part of my problem is that in getting up too late, I haven't been spending a proper amount of time with my light box (because when it's time to go to work, it's time to go to work. Gotta catch that bus. Transit forces me to not just be on IZ Time. ) So that's a viscous circle I need to break.


I'm also sure it's not helping that I've been dealing with a lot of physical pain lately (one side of neck, shoulder, arm, hand that gets to a level of making me very squirmy and impossible to distract myself from.). They're still working on figuring out exactly what's happening and how to help it, but it seems one of the x-rays revealed some arthritic deal in my upper spine that reduces the space that nerves and stuff run through (as I understand it from a quick phone call I got). Makes sense. I'm supposed to find out more at my appt. (first week of Feb.). Meanwhile, I've started PT. I'm hoping that can help, because I shudder to think what surgery on one's spine would cost(!)


But there is also a lot of good stuff in my life, so I'm really working on really, really appreciating that.


I'll try to keep you posted, but I'm not very good at that (dang, full-time work takes up a lot of my time!). I barely keep up reading just this thread and a few games. But I'll try.