Posted by GeishaGirl on December 5, 2004, at 12:08:32
In reply to a million years ago » GeishaGirl, posted by 64bowtie on December 3, 2004, at 14:54:45
Rod,
I'm sorry to hear about what you have been and are going thru. The kinda stuff that we're talking about can happen with all sorts of meds, not just ones considered psych meds.
It's seems to me that it's so hard for people to understand that sometimes things I say or misunderstand aren't seen for what they are (a physical inability or disability). I get the feeling that it's such a horrible thing for people to imagine (that meds can do this, especially if they or someone they know has or is taking them) that they prefer to think of it as you as being a jerk. Sometimes, I really feel like I'm stupid or will say something stupid or totally inappropriate. I keep trying to tell myself that it's not my fault. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. I feel that I am getting better at convinving myself as I keep saying this to myself.
I've written in some more detail what my experience is like in my previous post to lostforwards (do I have the right name? hummm... I hope so). I hope that things get better for you. Hope to hear from you again.
Geisha Girl
> Giesha,
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> This can be troubling for sure... You take stuff to help and it leaves a permanent (mental/emotional) condition... I'm sad for you...
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> When I was 19 and on my way to Sub-School in the US Navy this "brain-dead" dentist, a "full-bird" Navy Captain by the way, suggested I have all my impacted wisdom teeth out before I went to Sub-School. He took two out at a time, diagonally, with surgery.
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> The pain was mind numbing, and the infections were even worse. So he prescribed Darvon-65 and antibiotics. From these episodes, I was left with terrible migraines and a milk allergy. I would goto breakfast and within an hour, I had a splitting migraine and terribly messy nausea (upchucking uncontrollably). I swear the situataion might have shortened my life. At the time, no one knew how to help me except 10 grain compozine shots for the nausea. Whoopee... That was fun while it lasted...
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> Stangely, life on the submarine was OK. No milk and the oxygen bleed produced 5% oxygen richer air to breathe. However, even though exercise and harnessing the milk allergy with lactobascillus cultures, I still freeze up when I talk sometimes. It wasn't healthy to freeze up anytime while talking on the submarine. They would have eventually thrown my *ss off the boat. Somehow I faked it I guess.
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> I still dread that lingering feeling of uncertainty at what I might say.
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> Rod
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