I'm back from the great beyond!!!

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Registered: 03-27-2003
I'm back from the great beyond!!!
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Wed, 09-21-2005 - 1:08am
Hello!!! I'm still around here just been too busy for the computer the past few months. Husband is still in Afghanistan and is going to Baghdad (sp?) in 1/06. Hopefully we will get to see him for a couple weeks before that. That will make four weeks in a year we've seen him. Catie, 5, is still determined to take over the world by force. Chase, 8, is in speech, going to start occupational therapy, needs sensory therapy, they think he has auditory processing disorder and we're waiting for our appts with the homeopathic psych doc and a neurologist since they think he is having petite mal seizures also. Then there's me..... needless to say I'm cycling uncontrolably. I'm doing 2500mg of depakote, 600mg of trileptal, 5mg of zyprexa and as many 1mg ativans as it takes to get through the day. I have another appt on thurs 9/22 and I'm hoping that she switches me off of depakote and maybe try cybalta (sp?) or topomax or anything that will be better than the depakote. On a good note... on 9/30 I start a medically supervised weight loss thing... ya know shakes and one real (400 cal) meal a day (haha). Hopefully it will take off this 120lb weight gain from my dear friend depakote. I hope all is going well for everyone.
Brenda
P.S. KELI!!!! I'm calling you at home tomorrow!! :)
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 09-21-2005 - 8:25am

hey brenda!

its so good to see you post! i don't know if you meant you were calling me last night, or if you will call me tonight, but i lost my stupid house phone somewhere in my house last night...i dunno...eric will find it today...it may be in mike's room...he's on it most of the time now...so if you call and there is no answer, you can call back...he doesn't always answer call waiting...

i'm a big ole mess...! but i'll be okay...i'm tryin so hard to hang in there...if this stupid fibromyalgia crap would go away, it would be easier to deal with stuff...but the constant physical pain on top of bp stuff is makin it harder...

you're SOOOOO gonna lose the weight...try topamax! i'm having some luck with it, it actually works pretty well on my cycling, and i've lost a bit of weight with it too...not a whole lot, but some, and i will lose more too as time passes...

anyway, hugs! hang in there, it all sucks...but it will be okay...we've been through this for years now, haven't we?

talk to you soon...

keli