Tracey

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Tracey
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Wed, 09-14-2005 - 8:41am

Hey there...as you can see I'm feeling better...read my "Question" post and let me know what I should do...

Topamax and Prozac make me SLEEPY! I'm so sleepy and I took them around 9:00 and went to bed. Got up at 5:50, but still. I'm sleepy. I miss soda. Haven't had soda in 3 months. Tried one last week and gagged. It was so disgusting.

I have so much work to do. I need to focus today. I have a meeting at 1:30, shouldn't last long though...maybe 15 minutes or so, with one of my contractors...

I really really need to focus...

I gotta get this fibromyalgia crap under control too...I'm hoping the a/d will help some too...I am in so much pain, and now I'm getting so stiff I'm having major trouble getting up from a seated position. That's not good. I can deal with the pain, moreso than that. My fingers hurt too though...

I'm falling apart at 35. The flare up should ease some as the depression gets better, I hope. Teri told me once hers did...I haven't talked to her in a couple months, I should call her...

How are you doing today?

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Registered: 07-24-2003
In reply to: keli003
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 9:18am

Hey girl!

I am doing ok. Tired, but ok.

Call pdoc's office. I am sure they will let you defer the co-pay until the end of the month when you have the money. You DO need to let Jane know that you increased it. If she gets touchy about it, then ask if you can do every day for 2 weeks to build it up in your system faster and THEN go dwn to every other day and see how that works. You KNOW your pdoc. She knows you are very informed on your treatment...she isn't going to get mad at you. And, if she does, that is HER problem. You have to survive after all.

I'm glad you are doing better, you deserve it. Now lets KEEP you there.

I am going to start working off my lithium. We aren't actively TRYING for a baby, but we aren't trying to prevent it either. I don't want to take ANY chances in case I do conceive and don't realize it.

Mike has the car today so he can go to some temp agencies and also to the workforce center. Keeping my fingers crossed that he finds something good.

Take care and I'll talk to you later!!!!

Love
T

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Registered: 03-25-2003
In reply to: keli003
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 9:52am

Hey, called pdocs office, and told them what I'd done...that it made a big difference in my depression and that I'd even considered going into the hospital for stabilization before taking it last night...that I want to continue it at 20 mgs every day and see what happens from here. That my depression is markedly better today after taking it twice in a row. Now, whether that is medically possible with Prozac, I don't know. But it worked, and I want to continue it. I'm not manic and I'm not cycling. I know when I am, and I always, ALWAYS let them know when I am. So, we shall see.

I'm glad you are going to come off the Lithium, and I know that you KNOW when you need it. So we won't go there. You SO don't want to get pg on Lithium.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you too for Mike today.

I haven't done any work yet, and I really need to. LOL. But I can't get motivated or focused yet, I'm in a good deal of pain. But physical pain is actually MUCH easier to deal with than the crap I've been dealing with forever.

I really do not want to get into an altercation with my pdoc. If I have to, I will change pdocs in a hot minute. Don't want to, but we're lucky here to have some really good ones, and since I've been in the hospital many times, lol, I know them already.

C'est l'as vie...