Roll Call 34

I'm trapped in a parking lot. Rain is pouring down and I don't feel that it is safe to drive because I can't see. Sending this from my phone...God, I hate storms! So angry right now.

Hope the rain stops soon!

Husband is snoring on sofa - it makes me smile.

Just wait for a break, you'll be ok....use it as an excuse to text a friend or play a game...

Alright, I'm home safe. I called my brother and figured out how to turn the window defroster on, so I could see. So relieved!

This poor guy sheltering on my balcony reminded me of you

Sweet.

I wish I could download pics on here. Even from my albums it doesn't work.

And I haven't been able to change my mood in awhile...it just won't even click on it.

Well I scrubbed down the kitchen: walls, counters, stove, microwave. And did a ton of dishes and all the pans. Then I was tired and slept about 4 hrs.

Next I'm gonna tackle the inside of the fridge...

I'm glad the meds are so helpful for you.



Well done!





My dog snores really loudly and it makes me smile too...unless it's 5am and I'm still awake, and then I just feel jealous of his snoring! lol

Well done! I had to drive in the rain the other day and it was quite scary

Wow! You've been busy today! Hopefully that will tire you out for tonight and you sleep better. Do you not find napping disrupts your night sleep though? No matter how much I want or enjoy a nap, it always makes it harder for me to sleep that night, so I try really hard not to nap anymore.

My grandfather has been started on an AD. It's one that made me sleep 18 hours a day and eat anything not nailed to the floor. He has been losing weight and not sleeping though so those side effects would be good for him. I'm not sure that he's actually depressed though (he has dementia), because he only cries when he's told that someone he's asking about has died, so I feel like it's grief and appropriate, and medicating his feelings away into total numbness isn't a good solution. Also he's not capable of making medical decisions anymore so he's not even been told that he's been diagnosed as depressed and is now taking an antidepressant, and that makes me uneasy too. This doctor had never met him before and it's like he just thought crying=depression=AD when it's so much more complicated than that because of the dementia, and taking psych meds is a big decision that neither my grandfather or my family were a part of... :/

*Willow*

Yeah it does disrupt my sleep. But I couldn't take it anymore, lol.

Really sorry about your grandpa, I don't really know what to say. Sorry.

I just bought 100 dollars worth of booze. I plan to buy more cuz closes at midnight

wow thats a lot,I cant handle drinking when I DO it makes my paranoia and hallucinations much worse.well I feel pretty weird right now I heard some voices the first in a while because since the meds the voices have been few and in between.

Lillybird90 I wasn't able to read your blog, but I'd like to. Click on it and let me know if you are able to read any of it

Called Dr. on call last night and he doubled my Seroquel. I thought it would knock me out, but it didn't. I'm hoping for some valium!

Past a certain dose seroquel isn't more effective just longer lasting....

How long lasting is the sedation on Seroquel? I mean, if you took it before bed... would you feel the effects still after waking up? For Olanzapine I found that it made me very sluggish in the mornings, but not exactly sedated.

It can be anywhere from half an hour to all night depending on the dose but that's as a sleep med which is 25-300 mg I think vs more like all day if you're actually using it for psychosis and not sleep.....it's one of the most sedating as an AP due to the histamine effect. So it's like two totally different drugs based on dose....

I was trying to change from Seroquel to abilify but the abilify made me very agitated (sorry, if I'm repeating myself from other posts). I was surprised that the psychiatrist on call was so quick to know that the abilify was to blame, even though I already knew it. Psychiatrists don't always know or maybe it's just that they are not so intimately aware of the side affects of a medicine as well as the patient. So, he started increasing the Seroquel again - last night it went from 200- 400. I take it as an anti-psychotic. When it was doubled to 200, it knocked me out so bad that, even though I was awake with my eyes closed, I couldn't talk or move. My 14 yr. old nephew was being goofy and making fun of me. I wanted to laugh, but couldn't. He could have put underwear on my head and tomato sauce on my face, and I'd have been helpless!

Anyway, I didn't know that an increase in Seroquel only made it longer-lasting. I want to change to something else, again, but my psychiatrist is soooo slow and gradual about making changes. Smart I guess, but it takes a lot of patience for me.

Sorry for rambling. Is that ok to do on this thread, when it relates to the topic?

getting ready to go meet T. lots going on. stressed

There is always variation between people but there is like 90% histamine occupancy at 25 mg and while it bumps up to 95 or so with increases it's a really minor change in terms of kinetics but the levels stay up so you get longer effects and can sleep through the night...so there are minor effects in intensity so of this depends if you're taking extended release or not too. I can't precisely remember....it's in stahls essential psychopharmacology....but obviously your personal experience is more important than number is a book but past 300 it doesn't really do much more for sleep to my knowledge.

I am so dang excited for you! I can't wait to hear how it goes!

Lads i honestly think alot of people miss a trick with seroquel. Honestly the first month is tough , severe sedation but as you titrate up the body adapts. And it is the least sedating out of any med ive ever taken. But it has to be taken consistantly and at medium doage 400-600. As a med i wish it had better ap properties, and thats a shame because its a decent med.

Got back from my camp out!!

Well, back into civilisation tonight... come back to my flat for a day or two.

Seems I am up to old tricks, checking over my shoulder to see if people are following me; there was one shifty guy waiting at some traffic lights who was looking at his phone just as I passed. Got home - I had a little look for bugs because my Mum had cleaned my flat for me & I have this feeling she might have put cameras in my flat. Quite content now I've looked in the obvious places.

I also took home a different toothpaste because my old one tasted funny & my voices are telling me someone has poisoned it.

This delusions don't seem to persist much past 15-20 minutes but I always have that niggling feeling that something is going on.

Well A while back I was updating my blog and talking about the people who were following me,my theories about stuff,and some of my hallucinations with pictures I drew of what they looked like.and out of nowhere my blog got shut down so I wrote the website manager and they said I had inappropriate content I told them what was on my blog had nothing violent or inappropriate so they went and checked it out and apologized to me saying it must have been some sort of ''mistake'' so they re-opened the blog but all of my posts I had made were still deleted and all gone.which I found to be sort of suspicious.so I havent really made any new blog posts on there if I do I will probably go to a different website to do that.

I only took it two days....no sedation at all....my data was based on generalization though but it's just like weight neutral meds....some people gain a ton of weight on abilify or others and some don't it's all means and deviation so personal exp is the best indicator.....