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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
Why would I whine at you? I generally don't whine, anyway. Have I come across as whining a lot here? Let me know if so, and that will be rectified. I guess I do, on rare occasions, biiiiiiitch but c'est la vie. I see a difference between whining and "that which is so bad that it is replaced by asterisk marks so that tender ears won't be horrified, unless I add seven letters" i" between letters "b" and "ch". [For the record, I rarely even curse, as if that word in that usage, was even a curse word. The children of the world will survive! I guarantee! No extra therapy likely needed because of bad ole' me.] Boo! [No, I am not really scary, either.] In any case, I agree with what you wrote regarding the covid 19 crisis. I don't care who is which of the two only political party choices in a huge country. I do care that people get the right info and make reasonable humane decisions.
I complained to my psychiatrist that I had been getting excessively tired too early at night. [I was fine in the morning and early afternoon.] I asked if I could get rid of the morning 50 mg Seroquel XR dose. He said yes, so I removed it. Now I am a bit mildly "up". I'll see how it goes. If poorly, I will email him to see if I should restore it or rather add it to my 650 mg at night.
I'm sorry to read that you also deal with neuropathy, plus a limb movement disorder. My husband actually does take Neurontin for his neuropathy, but I think he may need a higher dose. He is very reluctant to take large doses. They have been prescribed but he still takes less. He's been taking only about 700 mg per day, when I think over 1,000 mg would serve him better. At first, he only took 300 mg. Is there anything you have found helpful for your neuropathy? As for my husband's pain, it is sad if the statin and Lipitor are the culprits. They have really worked well at improving his blood pressure and cholesterol.
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Uh oh, I fear I have managed to somehow miscommunicate in a very major, major way. So very sorry, BirdDancer. I was certainly not suggesting in any way that you whine, have ever whined, or anything of the kind. My experience of you could not be more polar than that. When I got to the end of my post, I , in my mind, did not ever remember it was a response to you, as embarrassing as that may be for me. I was attempting to make a tiny bit of humor, actually, which was quite clearly rather poorly considered and yet more poorly executed. One of the things about living in perhaps the second most liberal city in America, is that everyone asssumes you are an Antifa member and run around rioting and choosing anarchy, or something, because you live in Portland. We PDX residents hear this almost every day now, not infrequently, from our president. I admit that I get tired of hearing that over and over, as it does not represent my personal world construct at all. I am very liberal in a number of social, domestic arenas, and quite conservative, extremely consrvative, actually, on foreign policy matters, for example. There is no party for folks like me. It does not exist. Obviously, none of this has the slightest bit to do with any aspect of you, and I made no effort to make that plain, which was weak and lousy writing on my part Not good. Sorry. For the record, you are an absolute treasure to me. Beyond a treasure. You help me every single day and have nothing but gratitude and admiration for you and what you do.
There is really not a lot more to be said on that particular topic. So very sorry. i need to be more attentive and self-aware. It is a struggle, clearly, sometimes. Please forgive me.
Yeah, the Neurontin, I was on it for years. Oddly enough, I am doing much better after having stopped it. Way better than I was. I don't understand neuropathy or how it acts at all. It is just a great big mystery to me. I will also add that I do not believe it helped my mood stability or anxiety, either. As far as I could tell, it did nothing fo rme, which is why I never tried the Lyrica.