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Old May 06, 2022, 11:43 PM
*Beth* *Beth* is offline
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Originally Posted by wildflowerchild25 View Post
I’m moving down to IOP next week! And today was amazing, I felt actually baseline. Like seriously in the middle. No depression, no mania, no anger, not even high SH urges. It is just so refreshing to feel calm for once, really for the first time since like November. May it long continue!

I have reduced vraylar and will stop it tomorrow. It will take 3-4 weeks to get out of my system. I really hope the hunger and binge urges reduce, I’ve now gained 15 pounds, fast approaching my highest weight from two years ago. It needs to stop. We had a session on mindful eating today and some of it was ******** but the general concept could be helpful. At least the slowing down and really tasting my food. I also am going to be really strict with my dairy free lifestyle. I’m still having GI trouble and I think it’s a) because I’ve been eating dairy anyway and b) I’ve been stuffing myself with high sugar, high fat processed food. I need to plan my meals better. Get more fruit and veggies. I do like salads and carrots and most fruits. I also like roasted chickpeas, they’re really good! I should make my own.

Congratulations on the Vraylar! That is so good. I do think the hunger and binge urges will go away - it did for me when I finally stood my ground about stopping Seroquel.

Funny, I had chickpea soup for dinner. It's a soup that comes from Italy and it's nice. I recently read that chickpeas are a "good" starch. I've never had them roasted, but that sounds so tasty.

I'm very happy to hear that you felt baseline today. Like we were saying in the previous post, this may just be the time for both of us to do some hard work in therapy.
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