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Old Jan 16, 2025, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by June08 View Post
@Crazy Hitch it's honestly just luck of the draw. One of the perks of a private school is you don't have the type of behavior issues that happen at public schools. I hope going back goes well for you-you've got this!

Welp, I'm depressed again and was struggling with SI today. I managed to keep enough momentum going to go to the pharmacy, go for a walk, cook dinner, and get the dishes done, but I spent most of my evening completely checked out scrolling on my phone trying to avoid the emotional pain.

I might have to go back on what I said about not taking the meds my pdoc prescribed for my twitching face muscles because I think this is at least part of what triggered depression symptoms. It could be that I haven't taken seroquel for a couple of days too. I think the twitching might have triggered something because every time my nose twitched today was a reminder that I'm a walking pharmacy and that I have a mental illness that's a pain to treat. I was honestly expecting the twitching to go away as soon as I stopped the seroquel. This might be a silly question, but can these muscle twitches be permanent? Seroquel had me feeling amazing, but I hate the thought of taking it to much and the twitches getting worse and/or just never going away. I

won't try the new med until this weekend though, in case it gives me side effects. So, we'll see if/how much my face keeps twitching these next few days.
I have some twitches with Seroquel too. Mine are mainly around my lips/corners of my mouth and my tongue (tongue moves constantly in my mouth), a few eye twitches; it's minor enough that I don't think people really notice unless they know to look for it (such as my pdoc). They can become permanent, but every time I've been off Seroquel, my EP movements have gone away completely. Then they come back when I restart it. I have been on Seroquel the best part of 20+ years, my longest stint off it while I was pregnant. But for me, nothing works as well as controlling the mania and for sleep as Seroquel.
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Seroquel, Cymbalta, propanolol, buspirone, Trazodone, gabapentin, lamotrigine, hydroxyzine,

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Thanks for this!
June08