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Post by pamthomas46 on Mar 14, 2019 18:34:10 GMT
I’m in. The sun is shining and snow is beginning to melt. Dd is clearing the walks. Not much planned for today. Tomorrow early afternoon dd and I have hair appts. Fingers crossed the temps do get high enough for snow to continue to melt. Smiling and going with the flow as I KOKO.
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Post by hpeterson1951 on Mar 14, 2019 19:00:32 GMT
Today's food goal not met. School goal met- No Nakedness!! All classroom members remain clothed at all times. jamescat1,- Sorry to hear about your mother. I must admit that the past couple of days I had not so serious thoughts about finding speed. Not going to but really thought it would be nice to have some kind of upper to get out of this fog. My mom went through Xanax withdraw when she was in the hospital for her bowel blockage. It was awful to watch because no one really knew what it was because she didn't have a script for the Xanax. She got it through the "little old lady network". No one realized how bad her withdraw was except for my brother and I, we tried to tell the doctors. |
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Post by zazzles on Mar 14, 2019 20:25:32 GMT
jamescat1, thanks. Glad your mother got a doctor that fingured out what she needed. cyndee, thanks. Sometimes I wish I could just quit all the meds. I know that my typical, full-time fog, tiredness, and the speed with which I fatigue is the result of medications. But I am so intolerant there isn’t any thing else the doctors can figure out to do. Most days I do nap and that helps. I’m beginning to unserstand how some friends who couldn’t sleep at night ended up with altered life schedules where they went to bed at 5 or 6 AM and slept until mid-afternoon. That helped them get the regenerative sleep they needed, but life totally passed them by because the world is an early riser!
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Post by jamescat1 on Mar 15, 2019 1:13:45 GMT
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Post by DebDoesWW on Mar 15, 2019 2:45:48 GMT
Oh sorry fullmahina I must have misunderstood I thought you had meant you just wanted to make it safe for her to be outside to romp and play, and not run away. |
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Post by hpeterson1951 on Mar 15, 2019 11:53:20 GMT
jamescat1,- I promise I am NOT serious about getting on speed. It was just a passing thought of I wish I had something to get me out of this fog. I have never done street drugs and have no intention to start now. I have enough problems with the prescription drugs. I just feel like Mike, Some days I wish I could throw all my meds away and live a "normal" life. But I know that the meds are what make it possible for me to live. Jamescat-sorry to scare you or bring up bad memories.
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Post by fullmahina on Mar 15, 2019 12:02:03 GMT
Oh sorry fullmahina I must have misunderstood I thought you had meant you just wanted to make it safe for her to be outside to romp and play, and not run away. All of the above, lol, but having a fence would make it tougher for the coyotes to snatch and run! |
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Post by cyndee on Mar 15, 2019 14:16:17 GMT
cyndee , thanks. Sometimes I wish I could just quit all the meds. I know that my typical, full-time fog, tiredness, and the speed with which I fatigue is the result of medications. But I am so intolerant there isn’t any thing else the doctors can figure out to do. Most days I do nap and that helps. I’m beginning to unserstand how some friends who couldn’t sleep at night ended up with altered life schedules where they went to bed at 5 or 6 AM and slept until mid-afternoon. That helped them get the regenerative sleep they needed, but life totally passed them by because the world is an early riser! Hi zazzles. Believe me when I write that I understand how you are feeling. Though I won't ask what medications you are taking (that's too personal of a question), I'll say that I know that in some cases an eventual medication dose change can help, unless your dose is a firm definite. Or sometimes one can finally get past certain side effects, like sedation. Sometimes it takes a long long time. Patience is a word I used to curse to hell, but my mom was right about its importance and "virtue", as she reminded me all of the time. Ugh! The risk with quitting meds is that you can become very very unwell. Sometimes it's hard to realize which is the worse of the two evils. Way too often people do indeed quit the medications and have to learn that answer the hard way. My nephew did. He's no longer with us. Experimenting with when to take my sedating medications, and when to push myself to fall asleep has helped me. I have come up with a workable solution. I can usually wake up at 6:45 am, though sometimes it's earlier and sometimes a bit later, but being very active in the morning is usually not a real possibility for me. Also, staying out too late at night is not a good thing for me to do. It sucks to have to be on a rigid and somewhat limited schedule, but it's what I must do. I am hoping to have my most sedating medication lowered over time. I know that will help with my productivity (and other things), but any lowering must be done very very carefully and slowly under the watchful eye of my doctor. Springtime is not a good time for me to lower that medication. Last spring (and many others), I became severely ill. There's a seasonal trend to my illness. As for other medications like it that wouldn't be as sedating, they either didn't work sufficiently, or gave me even more unbearable side effects. Maybe someday there will be a better medication with fewer side effects. Heck, maybe someday there will be a cure. Trialing new meds, is a scary prospect, though. I've been through so many and the fear is that trying something new will create extreme chaos. I definitely have an altered life compared to the life I had 15 years ago and before. I grieved its loss, believe me! But my life is significantly better now than my sickest years. Part of the adjustment, for me, has been to find the great value in what I do have and what I can do. I also do my best to savor the little things and pleasures in life. Have you ever heard of mindfulness? This is something that once I fully explored and mastered (took time and practice), became supremely important in my life. I always admired writers like Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. They knew what mindfulness was all about. This is not a religious idea at all. Anyone with any belief, or lack thereof, benefits from this. |
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Post by zazzles on Mar 15, 2019 14:51:38 GMT
cyndee, thanks for your thoughts. I’m fortunate that the current round of drug change is just a dosage adjustment, so if I find my body doesn’t adjust or I can’t tolerate the increased side effects I can simply step back to the original dosage—the doctor is onboard with this, so no problem there.
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