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Old Mar 31, 2014, 08:21 PM
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So now I sit and wait for the next two hours to put me in the clear. If not, I'll be heading to the ER.

I've got dread coursing through my veins and it's not helping my stomach.


Does food poisoning make the food taste odd?
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Old Mar 31, 2014, 08:26 PM
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I cooked dinner today using beef and made a meat sauce. My housemate came home from work and said it tasted odd and asked me if I did anything different of which I said hadn't. I thought that since we rarely eat beef perhaps that was the issue regarding the odd taste my housemate experienced. He decided not to it because it didn't taste right.

But now that odd taste he experienced has got me thinking and do hope that it isn't food poisoning. I've had food poisoning once before and I have to say it's a very painful experience, but so far it's been two hours and I have no ill effects.

So now I sit and wait for the next two hours to put me in the clear. If not, I'll be heading to the ER.

I've got dread coursing through my veins and it's not helping my stomach.
It's really hard to get sick from beef...chicken yes but beef no that's why they are always recalling it if they even detect E. coli then they send it back to the factory to be destroyed where chicken can't be made clean so you always have to cook it through but you can still get sick from heat stabile toxins if enough bacteria have grown. This is why so many people can get away with eating undercooked hamburger even though you're supposed to cook it through...like with steaks you only need to sear off the outside and the rest can be totally raw...but you would never think of that for chicken because it's so bad.
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thanks guys for encouragement. next step: wait til 4am to get up. get to the airport at 6am or so. catch my flight at 7.

ill keep you all updated.
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Old Mar 31, 2014, 08:35 PM
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Speaking as a person who's a lot closer to needing that bathtub than you are... it's my policy to resist all such accommodations until they're absolutely necessary - on the theory that once you give in to it, you're on the downward slide.
Lol, by the time I would need them they would probably come up with cooler accommodations.
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Old Mar 31, 2014, 08:39 PM
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Does food poisoning make the food taste odd?
I'm assuming yes but evidently not enough for me because I kept on eating the food the last time I got food poisoning.
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Old Mar 31, 2014, 08:45 PM
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It's really hard to get sick from beef...chicken yes but beef no that's why they are always recalling it if they even detect E. coli then they send it back to the factory to be destroyed where chicken can't be made clean so you always have to cook it through but you can still get sick from heat stabile toxins if enough bacteria have grown. This is why so many people can get away with eating undercooked hamburger even though you're supposed to cook it through...like with steaks you only need to sear off the outside and the rest can be totally raw...but you would never think of that for chicken because it's so bad.
Well, this helps ease my mind. Thank you. My knotted stomach thanks you too.

When I got food poisoning several years ago it was from under-refrigerated tofu and broccoli chinese food. Oh man, that was hell and had to be hospitalized.
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Old Mar 31, 2014, 10:33 PM
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Today was a rough day. I really needed a spring break to recuperate from my midterms, but since I didn't have one I'm struggling pretty badly now. I kind of want to bail out of going to class tomorrow, but the prof will be going over questions for our test on Thursday. I'm busy everyday this week and I can't really handle it. I need a day where I have it completely off so I can take an extra dose of my risperdal and sleep in.
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Old Mar 31, 2014, 10:34 PM
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Lol did you find those soccer players on a reddit thread
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Old Mar 31, 2014, 11:17 PM
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I go on reddit occasionally, but I don't have an account. Maybe I will create one when I'm not manic.
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Old Mar 31, 2014, 11:28 PM
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Should I go to class tomorrow? I'm manic and feel too overwhelmed by everything. Too many chores and college and work. I keep breaking down and I'm worried I'm going to try to off myself again.
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Old Mar 31, 2014, 11:41 PM
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I go on reddit occasionally, but I don't have an account. Maybe I will create one when I'm not manic.
Or create one when you are manic and do an AMA on it.

I did an AMA on reddit about having schizophrenia, but I don't encourage anyone to look for it... It's kind of personal.

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Should I go to class tomorrow? I'm manic and feel too overwhelmed by everything. Too many chores and college and work. I keep breaking down and I'm worried I'm going to try to off myself again.
I'm sorry you're going through that. Maybe take a sick day?
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Old Mar 31, 2014, 11:49 PM
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so i told T that i want to get off risperdal and try Latuda. he seemed ok with it but said we have to be very careful. we are meeting with pdoc tomorrow to make the change. im excited!!!
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I am f-ing scared for my family's "life." All I hear from the world is, "everything's great." The economy is improving at the quickest rate in many, many YEARS. Of course, not affecting us in any way shape or form. Mom is dying and probably will need to go into the hospital within hours to days. Once again, mom's life is on the line. Severe asthma attack, severe bronchitis with a risk of it turning into pneumonia. A lot of people will say, "at least we have our health." That is when talking about when things are going wrong in there lives. We can't even have THAT. I predicted that each and every year will get worse and worse for us, and once again, I am sadly correct. I am desperate for some good news in my life. I am surprised that with the tremendous stress this year so far, that it hasn't induced a complete psychotic break with hospitalization. I have no clue how that's possible. Even during times of less stress than this, it usually happens (that I am hospitalized with psychosis). Mom's big breaking "good news" for us recently came in the form of "winning" $25 from the lottery. Then I question this: How much did you spend to win that $25? Probably hundreds. I HATE being the realist in the family. I see reality, the rest of my family is locked away in happiness. Thinking that everything will magically work out. The only thing that is making me happy is the game I mentioned earlier.

JunkDNA, if you are going on Latuda, it worked for me. It took away most of the hallucinations and is probably the very reason why I haven't been hospitalized with psychosis.
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Or create one when you are manic and do an AMA on it.

I did an AMA on reddit about having schizophrenia, but I don't encourage anyone to look for it... It's kind of personal.

Yes I realize how contradictory that sounds lol.
I actually thought about creating one or making a tumblr about myself, but I would be worried about someone finding me. I write short stories about my illness and other things
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I'm sorry you're going through that. Maybe take a sick day?
I think I will, luckily I'm just manic and not super psychotic. My hallucinations haven't been too bad, but my paranoid thoughts and other things have been giving me panic attacks. I only talk about my illness here since none of my friends understand what I'm going through. A lot of people think I'm normal or forget I have a mental illness unless they see me everyday so sorry if I sound whinny, this is one of the few support systems I have :/
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Hello medical fox, I'm sorry about what's happening. I had a manic episode last year while in the hospital for psychosis. I couldn't sleep, had to talk 24/7, I accidentally woke everyone on the ward up (still feel guilty over that), dancing all over the place but that particular episode was med-induced. I've had other manic episodes that weren't med-induced. Panic episodes suck. I hope you feel better soon. There are a lot of people who think I am normal as well because I hide my symptoms well. That is unless I am completely psychotic and can't hide it at all.
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I woke up a ward full of people before then I had to go to a special room that seperated me from everyone, but it was nice to have my own room. My work induces a lot of manic episodes for me, but not all of them have severe psychosis thankfully. I'm going to try to handle my episode at home and hope I get better, I'm at work right now, but this week is a lot better compared to last week so I should be fine.
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Old Apr 01, 2014, 05:08 AM
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I feel a lot better and my shift is almost over, if I still feel well I may not skip class.
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I am f-ing scared for my family's "life." All I hear from the world is, "everything's great." The economy is improving at the quickest rate in many, many YEARS. Of course, not affecting us in any way shape or form. Mom is dying and probably will need to go into the hospital within hours to days. Once again, mom's life is on the line. Severe asthma attack, severe bronchitis with a risk of it turning into pneumonia. A lot of people will say, "at least we have our health." That is when talking about when things are going wrong in there lives. We can't even have THAT. I predicted that each and every year will get worse and worse for us, and once again, I am sadly correct. I am desperate for some good news in my life. I am surprised that with the tremendous stress this year so far, that it hasn't induced a complete psychotic break with hospitalization. I have no clue how that's possible. Even during times of less stress than this, it usually happens (that I am hospitalized with psychosis). Mom's big breaking "good news" for us recently came in the form of "winning" $25 from the lottery. Then I question this: How much did you spend to win that $25? Probably hundreds. I HATE being the realist in the family. I see reality, the rest of my family is locked away in happiness. Thinking that everything will magically work out. The only thing that is making me happy is the game I mentioned earlier.

JunkDNA, if you are going on Latuda, it worked for me. It took away most of the hallucinations and is probably the very reason why I haven't been hospitalized with psychosis.
Sorry to hear about your mother. That must be really hard on you.
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Or create one when you are manic and do an AMA on it.

I did an AMA on reddit about having schizophrenia, but I don't encourage anyone to look for it... It's kind of personal.

Yes I realize how contradictory that sounds lol.
Lol I also did a reddit AMA about mental health issues. It didn't go to well. At least I'm not at negative though.
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Sorry that happened to you. Without an audience it's just annoying. With an audience it's mortifying.
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So you're hearing voices again? When did that start...just today? Have you been extremely stressed lately? I can imagine you might be with your mom being sick and all these new T, pdoc and OT appointments. Is there anything you can do to help yourself relax a bit more? Maybe some way of reframing the situation like with the dog and the table stuff like that, well maybe it's an American approach but like if you slip on the ice the first thing you do is laugh in recognition of the humor of it then you are laughing with people and no one is laughing at you...so you know if max was dragging the table I might exclaim wow I had no idea he had that kind of strength or something so it opens up a dialog with those around you instead of setting up a defensive wall that will never hold. Anyway my two cents...
Idk if that was a hallucination or not because it could have been someone being mean as there were people around. It's easy if I'm on my own because then the only logical explanation is that it's not real, but I'm not sure about that one. If it was a voice, it's not the first one I've heard since being out of hospital. It's happened a handful of times and been random words (like "cinnamon"!) rather than my typical negativity. I haven't heard from the man and woman who usually talk about me all the time because somehow the hospital got to them. I can feel them watching me, judging me all the time, but they don't say anything out loud anymore. I think they're trying to convince me that I made them up, like the CMHT believes.

Normally I would do as you suggested and try to laugh it off, but I couldn't this time because I was trying hard not to cry in front of everyone and I knew my voice would be all high and shaky. But thanks for the suggestion

The noise in my head is still here. Idk how long they're going to punish me with it. I don't suppose it's unbearable, but it makes it harder to think. I just hope that it doesn't get louder. I couldn't go to sleep until gone 4am last night because of it :/

Firebird: My Mum is sick at the moment too and it sucks

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I'm really not sure how that's true...not everyone responds to the same dose of meds some people are on really low doses like risperidone 1mg and it's enough for them...a lot of it depends on how you metabolize the particular drug. When I was on abilify the AP effects aren't supposed to kick in till 10 mg but I was on 7.5 mg for a year and was fine...as I tapered off of them I noticed new effects at every lower dose so they were definitely doing something...
No I was literally cutting them in half with a pill cutter. She said that makes them useless.
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