Medication management

Have a real big problem with staying compliant with meds, or even starting them...some just mimic the fog of dissociation and keep me struggling to fight off sedation..gain weight..why does it have to be a double double edged sword...

I'm so sorry Evangelista. Meds are hard. Pills are not allowed here due to past events out of our control. It does make it hard to deal with problems that should require it. I hope you are able to find an answer for it. Take good care of self. Have you tried herbal supplements to help that which it might?

Thanx Wantto..yup..have been going to a naturopathic doc after the bad run of Psychiatry in the last year..but my T really encouraged me to give meds a try again..to help with the depression, and anxiety, sleep problem. So, here we goes again...

Hang in there ((((((((((( Evangelista )))))))))))))

In my experience, you won't need to be taking meds forever.

Evangelista,

med. compliance can be very tricky with singletons....so it makes sense that it can be even harder for those of us with more than one.

we'd not be here typing this moment if not for the assistance of psych. medications. it wasn't easy getting to this point. took MUCH trial and error. many times quitting (that was early on when we were young and didn't know any better) and throwing in the towel before we got to the place where we were willing, really willing to give the pharm. medications a true trial.

that meant not stopping just because of some annoying side effect. it meant weighing out what was more important to us...............living in the world partially functional? or lying on the davenport doing our best impression of a sloth and crying our life away? after many years total of lying down in tears we chose to go the meds route.

there are times when we're not fond of these meds but when we compare how we were over the past decade to how we are now there is no comparison.

our life/lives depend upon our ability to function. sadly, for whatever reasons, we have MDD and PTSD and DID and of those three there are meds specifically for one and meds that can help with the symptoms of the two others.

we found our lives better with the meds and finding a way to make the meds tolerable for all took much time, much creativity, and patience.

here's hoping you'll find what you need to make your lives better.

day by day, bit by bit, fingers crossed that something works sooner than later.

((((((((((( Evangelista )))))))))))))

Meds are hard to stick with for me too.

Evangelista,

I think its worth a try. I got really bad a while back and was advised to go back on meds. I did so reluctantly but it really has helped

My DID does not effect my taking medication. The medications that I was on for depression were not the same medications that I took as a child so none of my memory pieces contained taking paxil and welbutrin. So I couldn't take the paxil and welbutrin while I was dissociated.

As for taking the medication when aware I had a problem with remembering if I took it that morning or if I was remembering taking it the day before because time frames, days weeks and months just kind of run mish mash into each other. I have to keep track of what day, month and so on that it is by using a caledars. Besides not remembering if I took the medication that day I was also having the side effect of getting sleepy the first 2 months on the medication. So I contacted my doctor and with his permission I switched from taking the medication in the morning to taking it at night. Every night before bed I write in my journal so I would take the paxil and welbutrin at night and write in my journal the date and time that I took it.

The next night when opening to write in my journal I would see my medication log and go get my pills and take them. Problem was solved.

so suggestion think about something you do every day at the same time. and then take the medication then writing down the date and time and dosage.

This also works when giving children medication. having a child that has a life threatening breathing problem from the day he was born to when he was home I never had a problem with making sure he recieved his medication, the right dosage and so on and the poor kid at one point was on 5 different medications at once - one for ear infection, three for asthma and one for allergies. I just picked the time of day where we did the same thing every day, and wrote it down each time.

As for fog and sedation most psychotropic meds it doesn't matter if you take it during the day or at night. All that matters is that you take it the same time every time you take it so that the levels of the medicaion in the body stays at and even level right for you. So maybe checking with your doctor and taking it at night like I did will work for you too.