Posted by BarbaraCat on May 18, 2004, at 15:27:18
In reply to Re: inositol, posted by GabaGirl on May 18, 2004, at 4:16:51
**Yeah, passionflower is a nice herb. I take it to help sleep but haven't tried it during the day. Are you the one who gets kava from Hawaii? I've tried Kava but didn't have much luck with it.
> No aspartame today!
**Aspartame is deadly, a neurotoxin.
> How is Lamictal for you? I have not tried it but am interested. I am on Neurontin and Zyprexa otherwise.
>
**I'm not taking Lam anymore. I was taking with lithium and the two were working OK but a very anxious depression kept breaking through and, as is typical with these things, my dose was very slowly raised (from 75mg to 125, then 150 hoping to reach 200mg). At 125mg I started getting a maddening itch which I thought was due to finally coming down with cat allergies (thankfully, not so). At 150 it was very intense and I cut way back because of fear of the rash. I eventually stopped everything because nothing was working and making my mood symptoms worse.Unfortunately, that itching was actually a promdromal condition that led to a sensitivity to many other drugs. I came down with the rash and worse, Stevens Johnson Syndrom, from another drug in March and came close to exiting this mortal coil. I now have a sensitivity to all kinds of meds that I never was allergic to before. I can't even take Neurontin on a regular basis anymore which helped with fibro pain because any of the anti-convulsants starts giving me mucous membrane blisters. From that experience I really grokked that we have no idea what we're doing to ourselves with these drugs and all the others we take in combo. At least for me, my psych med days are over which is probably a good thing. So thus, my pit bull tenacity to figure it out some other way.
Today is NOT a good day and I'm feeling pretty pissed off, frustrated and teetering on despair. If it were only depression, anxiety, etc., but my body feels like it's being stabbed with ice picks and I'm #$^!@! sick of it. If there were a pill I could gulp to make my mind and body feel better without paying and paying for it, I'd jump at it. But there ain't none and here's where my spiritual training is supposed to come to the rescue.
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