So I have been taking 1 pill a day for a week now. It's kind of evened things out. I still start twitching a little about an hour or so before I'm supposed to take my pill, and still get a bit blurry and dizzy a couple of hours after I take my pill, but between when the dizziness stops and the twitching begins I feel pretty good. My mood is a TON better than before the mystery pill. Motivation is a lot better, too.
I've been gaining weight. But that could be due to the copious amounts of stuffing, green bean casserole, and mashed potatoes and gravy I ate over the holidays. Not to mention any game playing snacks. So I'm trying to regulate my diet and see if I start losing weight again. At least the holiday weight.
Sleeping has been really weird. My body keeps waking me up at like 8am. no matter when I go to sleep. Which is fine if I went to sleep at 10...but if I go to sleep at 2am and wake up at 8...not so much.
Anyways, I have a 7:45am staff meeting tomorrow so I need to get to sleep. Just wanted to update while I was thinking about it.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Twitching revisited
Started twitching again today around 11:30 or so...
just took my pill for today, so hopefully it will stop in a couple of hours.
It's kind of disturbing to me that I started twitching sooner after my last pill than last time.
just took my pill for today, so hopefully it will stop in a couple of hours.
It's kind of disturbing to me that I started twitching sooner after my last pill than last time.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
good times
almost exactly 2 hours after I took the pill, the twitching stopped.
dizziness has returned a bit, but it's much better than the twitching.
*sigh*
dizziness has returned a bit, but it's much better than the twitching.
*sigh*
withdrawl part 2
Been on and off the phone with RL since major twitches/general feeling like crappiness started.
She just called me back with male nurse to give me a game plan.
Just took 1 dose of "mystery pill" (although I feel like it's not such a mystery anymore).
Going to pay close attention to myself for the next couple of hours to see if twitches end/lessen and if dizziness or anything else returns.
Take another dose tomorrow (so 1 a day instead of 2 a day basically).
Call them back on Friday.
what a way to ring in the new year.
will probably be back with more later today.
She just called me back with male nurse to give me a game plan.
Just took 1 dose of "mystery pill" (although I feel like it's not such a mystery anymore).
Going to pay close attention to myself for the next couple of hours to see if twitches end/lessen and if dizziness or anything else returns.
Take another dose tomorrow (so 1 a day instead of 2 a day basically).
Call them back on Friday.
what a way to ring in the new year.
will probably be back with more later today.
Withdrawl?!? wtf!?
This is me. twitching uncontrollably. feeling like utter shit. nauseous. twitching. freaking out. hot and cold at the same time.
Keep in mind that I am trying to sit completely still during that entire video.
I'm gonna go ahead and guess that I wasn't on placebo.
either that, or something else is going majorly wrong with me about 27 hours since taking my last mystery pill.
this. sucks. big. time.
Dizziness.
Dizziness so severe that I had to leave work early. It's been pretty consistent the past week or so, but seeming to get worse.
Called RL. Stopping mystery drug for 2 days to see if symptoms clear up. If they do, then I restart the drug in two days and see if they come back. If they come back, we know for sure it's mystery drug causing them. If not...who the hell knows.
*sigh* trading depression for severe dizziness. good stuff.
Called RL. Stopping mystery drug for 2 days to see if symptoms clear up. If they do, then I restart the drug in two days and see if they come back. If they come back, we know for sure it's mystery drug causing them. If not...who the hell knows.
*sigh* trading depression for severe dizziness. good stuff.
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Monday, December 29, 2008
Mystery Pill Miracle?
If this is placebo, then I guess I'm a big fat placebo effect sucker.
This week has been pretty phenomenal. I went to Mississippi for Christmas (which I normally hate) and actually had a pretty good time. Was interested in helping some little cousins "learn" how to crouchet. Got a sewing machine for Christmas and have been interested in learning how to follow patterns/sewing directions and have made two bags already. Went shopping a couple of times, and actually found the schedule to fill out the paperwork to sign my puppy up for obedience classes (which I got a gift certificate for). And I have been feeling happy. geniuinely happy. or I guess "medicinally induced" happy.
I've had some sinus stuff going on, so it's been hard to gauge weather or not I have had side effects. So pressure between my eyes, blurry vision, tiredness, headache, etc, could be side effects of the medicine, or could be par for the course of winter sinus ridiculousness.
Jitteryness and easy bruising definitely have nothing to do with the sinus stuff though.
So I guess I just report all this junk to RL tomorrow (is my appointment tomorrow? must check) and see what she thinks.
So Christmas miracle? or Mystery Pill miracle?
I guess we'll see.
This week has been pretty phenomenal. I went to Mississippi for Christmas (which I normally hate) and actually had a pretty good time. Was interested in helping some little cousins "learn" how to crouchet. Got a sewing machine for Christmas and have been interested in learning how to follow patterns/sewing directions and have made two bags already. Went shopping a couple of times, and actually found the schedule to fill out the paperwork to sign my puppy up for obedience classes (which I got a gift certificate for). And I have been feeling happy. geniuinely happy. or I guess "medicinally induced" happy.
I've had some sinus stuff going on, so it's been hard to gauge weather or not I have had side effects. So pressure between my eyes, blurry vision, tiredness, headache, etc, could be side effects of the medicine, or could be par for the course of winter sinus ridiculousness.
Jitteryness and easy bruising definitely have nothing to do with the sinus stuff though.
So I guess I just report all this junk to RL tomorrow (is my appointment tomorrow? must check) and see what she thinks.
So Christmas miracle? or Mystery Pill miracle?
I guess we'll see.
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