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Aug 30, 2015, 09:13 PM
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When I decided Friday to come home (the dr let me decide about staying until Monday) I was warned that I'll be depressed for a while longer and would not be better before leaving the hospital. I was told I may have to come back.
I made it through the weekend. I've texted with my hospital roommate a lot which has helped a lot. But I am so sad still and exhausted and overall depressed and that scares me. I got the med adjustments in the hospital and can get another one in the next few days. I am better than I was 7 days ago, waiting in the psych er to find out if they could administer my routine meds. But I have so far to go still and my body has so much to sort out with the numerous changes that happened in the hospital. I just wish I felt better enough to know I was staying out.
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
 Anonymous200240, gina_re, Takeshi
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Aug 30, 2015, 09:33 PM
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Aug 30, 2015, 10:45 PM
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It takes time. We are not "all better" when we leave the hospital, although we're (usually) better than we were. This is a time of rest and recuperation---you are going through a major acute illness---and if you need to go back, do it. There is no shame in it. Be good to yourself and take it easy. It WILL get better.
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Aug 30, 2015, 10:53 PM
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I know you are right but this is hard. This is my shortest stay and the first time I left feeling nearly as bad as I went in. But that's because there were so many changes. My AD is a patch. Thanks to the ER mess and a closed pharmacy it wasn't changed for 60 hours instead of 24. Then the dr. was stopping it to start a different MAOI but I couldn't afford it so it went back on. So that alone is a lot. Then I went from Seroquel XR to regular Seroquel in the hospital and back to XR (part and part I'm breaking to immediate release) since discharge. And I went of loxapine faster than anyone wanted because of pharmacy miscommunications; I'd only had a tiny bit for 2 days so it made sense to just stop it and deal with the results of that. Plus my Seroquel dose was upped. And all of that happened in 3 days.
So it is no wonder I don't feel good. I was sick when I went in and all of that will help eventually but it is asking a lot of my body, which the dr was very honest about. I just don't like feeling this way. I feel like I could go over the same edge I did when I waited 2 days longer than I should have to go to the ER. But I'm not and that's good. TOmorrow I see my therapist and that should help. For now hopefully I will sleep. Which is messed up too. undoubtedly from all the chemical changes.
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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