Posted by Mikey_C on March 4, 2003, at 19:02:37
In reply to Re: Krissy... Important » Mikey_C, posted by KrissyP on March 4, 2003, at 18:48:52
Well... today was an absolute waste... not too sedated... kind of a little sedated, a little hyper... but I got absolutely NOTHING done today... damn.. didn't even wind up having that shower that I talked about till about 5:30PM... read about 10 pages into a Chapter in my Human Resources Management Textbook and did a load of laundry... that was my ENTIRE day... actually, I cooked and ate a bagel too....Can you say ZOMBIE?????
Oh well... at least it wasn't as bad as last week... hopefully I don't want up tomorrow morning and just can't move neither...
Question --> Did Seroquel itself not help you with your depression? I have always done horrible on ANY SSRIs and I'm not too thrilled with the idea of my depression setting back in. Right now I seem to be rid of it... no anxiety, no depression... just kind of burned out at the moment, if you know what I mean...
Oh, another question, if you don't mind my asking --> What was your professional diagnosis? Is it the same as mine in that they don't have a freaking clue what's wrong with me? I was told that I'm Anxiety NOS or something to that effect. Meaning that I have an anxiety problem, an adjunct depressive problem, an adjunt panic disorder, some post traumatic stress, and my prior drug use has seemed to further jumble up all my chemicals in my head....
I need something that will control all of that... In my opinion, 3 medications is my tops... I'm not going to even consider taking a fourth... my Doctors know that, and anyways, I can't afford it in the first place, can barely afford the three... So far my Doctors have told me that I should be on Seroquel, 100mg to start with, then I should be weaned off of Depakote once the Seroquel is in place and after a dry-out period be placed on Lamotragene (since Lamotragene doesn't mix well with Depakote, from what I've heard), and my Clonazepam as an emergency backup and to help me sleep at night.
Isn't insomnia horrendous though? Since I was a little boy, like 4 years old, I've had problems sleeping. Through my teens it got worse and worse... when I was like 16 I would have maybe one or two nights out of the week where I would only get like 4 hours of sleep... the rest of the week I would sleep fine... Then by the time I got to my early 20's I just couldn't sleep at all... I would have panic attacks at night because I would be tossing and turning so much and my mind would just be recycling through useless information continuously preventing me from sleeping... then if I fell asleep, I would just awake about 2 hours later and be up like a light, just *click* and I'm up... It got to the point where I was so bloody confused as to who I was or what I was doing because my body was refusing sleep.... Luckily Clonazepam has helped that, and for the 2 years 8 months that I've been on it... only 1mg is all I've ever needed to get some really sound sleep at night.
Anyways, enough ramblings...
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