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Old Jul 09, 2025, 07:34 AM
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Good morning. Took a 10 min walk outside this morning. Then did laundry. Still have to fold it and put it away. Which may happen in 2-3 business days as usual.

Got up at 5am today. It’s going on 8:30am now. Not much planned for the rest of the day. I got my laptop charged so I can help my neighbor order her groceries tonight.

Feel good. Tomorrow is the BBQ and my Bible study with @LadyShadow then Friday is psychiatrist appointment. I’m so ready to come off the trileptal. It’s been a long wait while adjusting to the other meds. But now we can finally move forward with tapering me off it. Really slowly. I’d rather just stop it all at once but that’s not the way to do it because it’s a anticonvulsant and can cause seizures if stopped suddenly and will make my lamictal levels rise a lot rapidly if I were to suddenly stop it. So I have to follow my doctors directions and come off it slowly. Then we’ll have to see what we can do about the Thorazine. Probably start tapering off that this Friday as well if he’s okay with that, he said he would be once I’m stable and I am

The ultimate goal is to just be on my 30 mg abilify, 100mg Lamictal, and 50mg Zoloft. And the as needed klonopin which I hardly ever take. I’m still on the same bottle of that from 6 months ago and there’s still a ton left. I only use it in extreme cases.

I’m so excited though! I’ll soon be on two less meds and on the least amount of meds I’ve been on in so many years.
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Diagnosis:
Schizoaffective disorder Bipolar type
PTSD
Social Anxiety Disorder
Anorexia Binge/Purge type
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