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Old Jun 07, 2024, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by raspberrytorte View Post
Yeah. It was 800mg at once.

I take three handfuls of pills a day. I'm technically supposed to take them in four doses but I squeeze the two afternoon doses together to make it easier and because I don't feel like taking pills all day long. I'm on like eight meds I think. Propranolol, diazepam, gabapentin, seroquel, loxapine, cymbalta, sertraline, metformin, topamax, but the Cymbalta is going away at my next appointment.

I'm a fukking walking pharmacy. I'm surprised I can even construct a sentence. I'm surprised I can even function!

Whatever I guess. I don't care.

😭 😭 😭 😭

I take everything at night because I am apparently incapable of being responsible for taking things during the day. I even take my thyroid pill at night although that's generally taken in the morning. If I set an alarm for it I'll just sleep through it. So I just don't take anything that can't be taken all at once. It drives the hospital crazy and every time I'm there they try to switch me to taking some meds in the morning. It lasts until i get home. When I was working I took Nuvigil and thyroid in the morning and that was fine but I wasn't nearly as sedated back then.

I understand feeling like a walking pharmacy. Every time I fill my pill boxes I think that this is ridiculous. But it's what I need right now. Hopefully we'll get some stuff lowered. My problem has been that every winter I get severely depressed and need my meds increased but never quite get to the point we can lower them. Or something happens like this year we added seroquel temporarily and it turned out to be the best thing ever and no way am I going off it. Then I wind up on too much medication but not stable enough to go down. So trying to go down on my gabapentin is huge. I may get to stop my topamax sometime too if there is time before winter.

In the winter I may have to take everything I lose the summer but a few months off would be nice.
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