Just wanted to say hi triggs

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Registered: 02-20-2005
Just wanted to say hi triggs
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Thu, 09-29-2005 - 10:41am

As I said in another post I usually dont post on this board, I lurk but this morning I got on this board cause I needed to read some posts of people who felt like me. Thats what I like about this board, you understand how I feel.

Right now I feel like crap. I've been on this down side for so long that I dont remember what if feels like to be up. I'm sleeping 12-15 hours a night. I can barely make it to six o'clock most nights. I just want to sleep. I want to be numb, I dont want to exsist. And no one seems to understand just how bad I feel. My mom told me the other day that I needed to get over it and move on(if I could figure out what is doing this I would get over it) and my husband has been kind of upset with me the past couple of nights. I had to give up a volenteer job I had a church yesterday just because I dont think I can be that reliable for them and that made him angry. My daughter has told both of her grandma's that mommy sleeps all the time and that I never do anything with them. I do. I try but I guess that's not enough. I'm just so tired of feeling like this. My doctor told me I was ADD too and I thought she was crazy cause not once in my life have I felt I was ADD so I took the stupid pill they gave me for two weeks and thought that was enough. I think my Effexor isnt working anymore. I just dont know.

So if you made it this far, thank you. I just wanted someone to listen to me. I hope you all have a good Thursday.

Christal

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Registered: 06-10-2003
Thu, 09-29-2005 - 11:08am

Christal,

I am glad to see you posting. It really does help sometimes to just get it out.

I have felt just like you. Finally, I just got sick of feeling like crap (bear in mind I put up with it for like 2 years straight) and went to a Pdoc. I was scared of medication (still am) but I got lucky. The first medication (Abilify) helped some, but just wasn't quite right for me. My second try (Lamictal) seems to be working very well.

I have energy now, I feel better about myself, I've started going on walks (trying to lose some of the weight I gained over the last year... I'm mortified to say it's about 30 pounds and I wasn't *petite* to begin with - blech!) In short, everything is just 'better' now. Oh, and I quit smoking last night!

Just wanted to give you a little hope until you feel better.

Catherine

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Registered: 04-06-2005
Thu, 09-29-2005 - 11:12am

I agree with Catherine...I'm on Lamictal and its helped quite a bit.

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Registered: 02-20-2005
Thu, 09-29-2005 - 11:55am

I take 150mg of Effexor
160mg Geodon
200mg Lamactial

and I was taking 300mg of Lithium but I stopped that last night and I was also taking 40mg of Focalin(for ADD) I was going to a doctor about three months ago and I stopped seeing her cause she wanted to take me off of the effexor cause she read somewhere that people with bi-polar should not be taking antidepressants for long periods of time cause it makes them cycle more. Well I went to this new doctor and she is the one who diagnosed me with ADD. I was shocked and my husband was more shoked cause that was the last thing we would have thought of. But I was so desperate for answers that I just did what she said without questioning it. Now Im thinking that I need to go back to that first doctor. Maybe she knew what she was talking about.

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Registered: 04-06-2005
Thu, 09-29-2005 - 1:33pm

Interesting..I've never heard of Focalin before...wonder if its new.

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