Fucking great. The lithium combined with Wellbutrin gave me the shakes, so Doc said drop the lithium. Wellbutrin plus Zoloft: weight down, libido way up, acne way up. I’ve already been through puberty once, thanks, not interested in experiencing it again. Doc prescribes Cymbalta. What the hell, I think, I’ll try the next one on the list. Then I find a site like this one of people kvetching about how terrible it is and how the withdrawals are hell, and it scares the shit out of me. Like, scares me so much I’m not sure if I’m going to start taking it this morning or not. Granted, I know people happy with their meds aren’t going to go out and post it on a side effects site. Still. Scary. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Cymbalta
12 September 2008 at 7:39 am (Medical, depression)
Tags: Cymbalta, depression, lithium, medication, medication issues, side effects, wellbutrin, zoloft
I hear the secrets that you keep
6 September 2008 at 3:27 pm (General, Medical)
Tags: Dubya, Farmer's Market, Gavin, granola, lithium, medication issues, sleep talking, wellbutrin, zoloft
Gavin, sound asleep: *rolls over* “I just looking at them!” *continues sleeping*
Kiddo, you make me giggle.
Went to the Farmer’s Market today and snagged some honey, some ground beef, apple butter, a watermelon, bread pudding, nummy granola stuff, and some goat milk lotion. Noms. I keep sneaking into the kitchen to toss more granola into my mouth. Between the new five grain bread at Starbucks and our granola, I tell you we’re regular at the Warmath household.
I’ve discovered that when I look up drug side effects on WebMD, they list the life threatening and major ones: strokes, diarrhea, tremors, etc. The annoying ones you have to look for elsewhere. At least when I find them I know I’m not alone. So, the lithium? Gave me the shakes. Got off it. Currently on Wellbutrin and Zoloft. For now. Wellbutrin: lost some weight, yay! Made my face break out more than it has in years, suckage! And since we know that Zoloft alone makes my libido even lower than George Bush’s IQ, we’re back at square one. Have to call my shrink to set up another appointment. Good thing there are approximately 12 million bipolar drugs on the market.
Put on your red shoes and dance
15 July 2008 at 9:07 am (General, depression)
Tags: Cinderella Castle, dance, Davey Dance Blog, depression, Disney, Gavin, Jeff, lithium, Magic Kingdom, multimedia, Silly, video, zoloft
Been miserable and depressed as hell the last few days, but where’s the fun in talking about that? Had a therapist appointment yesterday and a shrink appointment on Thursday, therapist called shrink and shrink called in a zoloft Rx since the lithium doesn’t seem to be doing it by itself, hopefully things will be better soon.
What is fun to talk about is Gavin dancing around (and getting me to dance with him) to this “muskick” this morning. I started reading my friend Jeff’s blog, and found myself at the Davey Dance Blog. It’s like this:
Davey Dance-BLOG. A project started while traveling Europe during Spring 2007. Armed only with an ipod and a Canon PowerShot, Davey picks a location and a pop song. Then Davey records an improvised dance.
The most recent one is in front of Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom. This guy is hilarious, and I love how random people come join him in his dance. Bear in mind that the other people can’t hear any music, and it’s just classic. Check out the little boy dancing in the background, and you’ll get an idea of how Gav was while listening. Go on to the rest of his blog and see everything else we listened to — and danced to — this morning.
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Pharmaceuticals
18 June 2008 at 11:01 am (Medical, depression)
Tags: abilify, bipolar, celexa, depacote, effexor, lamictal, lithium, medication, trazodone, wellbutrin, xanax, zoloft
I was talking to a friend online about the various and sundry medications I’ve been on, and ending up writing a list of what I’ve tried and how I reacted to it. It might help someone else, so I’m reprinting it here.
Different meds work for different people. :-/ I’m bipolar: generally severe depression, mild to moderate anxiety, rapid cycling hypomania (up then crashing several times a day for about a week or so), rare full blown manic episodes. Every med I’ve been on before has been for treating depression, not bipolar. So, my depression has been more-or-less under control, while my hypomania ran unchecked.
I’ve tried:
Celexa. Lexapro is a newer version of Celexa. Celexa made me twitchy (like jumping when you’re falling asleep ‘cause you think you’re falling) and dropped my libido to non-existent levels. Moderately controlled my depression, then quit working after about a year. I also punched Steve in the face in my sleep from a violent muscle twitch. :)
Xanax. Anti-anxiety. Good for immediate control of panic attack, but never took it on a regular basis despite a shrink who gave it to me like candy.
Trazodone. Have no effing clue why I was prescribed this one. Turned me into Nessa Zombie. Bleah.
Zoloft. The Sad Rock and I were pretty cool, although again that’s an anti-depressant that does nothing for my mania. Drops my libido to nothing unless I have it at a pretty high dosage.
Effexor. Made me violently angry. Wanted to kick my dog to death because she was barking. Srsly.
Depacote. Made me Chipmunk Nessa. I have pictures around here somewhere. Gained a LOT of weight on this one. I don’t think it even touched my depression. Pretty pointless.
Wellbutrin. Pretty sure I tried this one at one point, too. Eh.
Lamictal. One of the potential side effects was a dangerous rash. While on this one (TMI alert!) I had a vaginal infection that wouldn’t go away: changed soap, shampoo, laundry detergent, diet, type of underwear, nothing changed it. Went off the medication just in case.
Abilify. Finally! A medication for bipolar! Unfortunately, it made me a twitchy, restless insomniac. No good.
Started on lithium this morning. Hopefully this will do something for my kooky head. :)
Having said all that, I hate to see what kind of spam I’m going to attract with these tags. Oy! ;)
