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Today I see my psychiatrist before his 6 week vacation in Europe. I'm always nervous about his long absences. I'm not going to talk about France, today!
I went to fill my pill boxes, and couldn't find the bottle containing my Seroquel XR (quetiapine ER) 200 mg pills. [Note: I take Seroquel XR 400 mg pills, too.] I was certain I had filled the 200s, recently. Last week, I remember noting that "the new quetiapine ER 200 mg pills" look exactly like my Tegretol XR (carbamazepine ER). Different manufacturer? After an investigation, it seems that I took extra Tegretol XR pills in lieu of the Seroquel XR 200 mg. Today my pharmacist said my insurance approved a refill for the Seroquel XR 200 mg, so I guess I hadn't had them. You know, I'm not that old and yet I often screw things up. I did notice a reduction in my sleep this past week, on the lower dose of Seroquel XR (from 8 hrs to 5 or 6). I also noticed an increase in my already existent clumsiness/carelessness, likely from the extra Tegretol XR. 1,400 mg of Tegretol XR is surely above my therapeutic level. Hubby always tells me to "be more careful", but that's not easy. I'm not deliberately being careless. Funny, last week my nephrologist asked when I last had a Tegretol level. I told him that my psychiatrist is "delinquent" about ordering them. Truth is, I seem even more delinquent. Last night was my first group French class at the adult school. I enjoyed myself! There are maybe 12 students. The level is extremely easy for me, yet I still find value in the review. I think I'll stick to that level. As many here could imagine, I was among the most active participants in the class. [Always am.] When we split off into pairs for an exercise, my partner seemed to have amazingly good French. Turned out she was a French professor observing the new French teacher's performance. After she told me that, I humorously responded, in French, approximately, "So, that is the reason for my intimidation!" but she was nice. Last edited by Anonymous46341; Feb 12, 2020 at 11:46 AM.. |
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Hey, Id not waste time taking about France.. I’m sure he will help you feel better. You really must have him order lab work... you might need to skip a few days to let your level drop. Yes the mixing up of pills. Years ago like 9 when I just imploded I was at one time taking so many doses of meds a day ... I screwed up a lot.. the only thing that saved me was taking different colored markers and drawing an X on tops of any pills that could be confused. So when I picked up that bottle I was reminded by that big blue X .. Red , green etc to pay much closer attention. A few times I’d ask my husband if I was holding X Med in my hand.. maybe ask your husband to just watch you fill up the box ? Anyway it helped remind me to double check..I was so drugged when I was recovering from my descent into hell. It’s so easy to get them confused ! My new PsA Med ? It looks exactly like my cholesterol pill Fantastic news about enjoying your French class ! Hope you have a great appt with your Pdoc __________________ Helping others gets me out of my own head ~ |
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The system you used to ensure correctness with the meds sounds like a good suggestion. Maybe I'll create a spreadsheet and mark the Xs near the med line on a printout. You know what makes it even harder? My husband expects me to fill his pill box, too. I do keep his pill bottles separate from mine. His are in the kitchen pantry. Mine in a tray upstairs. I do fill them all at once, but keep his on the opposite side of the table. In total (his and mine), including the multi-vitamin, there are 13 different pill bottles for me to deal with once per week, when filling the weekly boxes. Once when I didn't have breakfast with him, he accidentally took MY evening medications (the wrong pill box) in the morning. A couple hours after he got to work, he was nearly passing out. I had to go pick him up, and when we got home, he slept for 14 hours straight. I couldn't believe he did that. At the time, my evening cocktail was even bigger than it is now, and far larger than his morning med pile has ever been. I think that day he took Lithium, Tegretol, Geodon, Seroquel XR, Klonopin, and Propranolol -- some at pretty high doses. Oops! |
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I don't know why we can't do cogentin either. I literally had to describe the problem to his assistant, who is a complete dolt, because I can never talk to him directly. And who knows what the hell she told my pdoc the first time, but for whatever reason, he didn't want to see me. I wish I did have an appt so that I don't have to play phone tag and talk to someone who asks me questions like, "mmmkay... and how do you spell that med you're on? P-r-o-e... Wait, No... p-r-o-p-a-n-e-l-o-l? Or is it not that way?" No, you idiot. It's not propane!! |
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A little low today, but oddly kinda happy about it. Better than that mixed ******** I was dealing with. I slept like 12 hours last night. Yesterday I got the increased dose of my Risperdal shot so that might be contributing to the tiredness. It does good to not feel the need to bounce around from activity to activity all day and to actually sleep more than two hours at a time.
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Another suggestion for keeping meds straight filling up med boxes-- I just set each one off to the side after putting that one in the compartments. I have am and pm, and do them one at a time.
Ugh. I think I'm going to check in medically regarding my head. Think it's safe to say I sustained a concussion. I've started having visual disturbances -- third day now. Cloudy and blurry, fortunately just on the side that got hurt. Sigh. Really don't want to have any more medical bills right now. |
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Thanks for the tip. That's actually how I do work my pill box filling, but I still made some mistake. |
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I suspect these things are more common than may be realized by most. We do the best we can. It's all we can do. Your French is clearly much better than mine, if you can hang with a French profesor. That is pretty amazing. __________________ When I was a kid, my parents moved a lot, but I always found them--Rodney Dangerfield |
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Anybody here read "Electro Boy"? I'm on page 79 of 273 and so far no mention of bipolar. Its all about his jobs.
__________________ Ingrezza 80 mg Propranolol 40 mg Benztropine 1 mg Vraylar 1.5 mg Mania (July/August 2024) Mania (December 2023) Mixed episode/Hypomania (September 2023) Depression, Anxiety and Intrusive thoughts (September 2021) Depression & Psychosis (July/August 2021) Mania (April/May 2019) |
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Didn't sleep last night, not sure why, just couldn't get comfortable.
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I don't want to give away anything, but further down the line in the book you'll realize that his behavior becomes pretty out of control. I'll say that he's not exactly a choir boy type to begin with, but his behavior at points becomes way far beyond his "stable self". He has been married (to a woman) for some years now, and has children. It's amazing how bipolar mania can make people do things that are far different than their baseline selves. Like many of us, he has crashed from mania into depression. |
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__________________ Ingrezza 80 mg Propranolol 40 mg Benztropine 1 mg Vraylar 1.5 mg Mania (July/August 2024) Mania (December 2023) Mixed episode/Hypomania (September 2023) Depression, Anxiety and Intrusive thoughts (September 2021) Depression & Psychosis (July/August 2021) Mania (April/May 2019) |
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I’m in such a weird state right now, but it isn’t a good one. The financial situation is even worse than before with no sign of looking up. I’m stressed and really not doing well, even in settings where I should feel at peace and ease. It’s definitely not ideal, and just who I am to deal with all this crap the only way I know how isn’t ideal either. I’m just kind of lost. Work sucks, all I do is sleep, eat and repeat. No wait – I take that back. I also stress, worry and cry. That’s about it.
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__________________ “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” -St. Francis of Assisi
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