Posted by Lyrical13 on February 3, 2004, at 22:11:04
In reply to Re: Don't feel bad » Lyrical13, posted by femlite1 on February 3, 2004, at 7:30:36
Hi again
Unfortunately I wasn't home at 7 so I couldn't make it to chat with you. I'm in Michigan so I'm on Eastern time. (7pm Chicago = 8PM here)I saw my doc today and we talked about several med options. I was really hoping the Lamictal would work because I don't want to take Depakote. My doc doesn't like Lithium. Neither do I...I tried it once and I was sooooo zoned. We talked about a ton of different meds today...one we actually considered was Neurontin! I don't remember why we didn't go that route. End result is we decided to keep the 2 meds I'm already on and just increase the Seroquel to a therapeutic level. He thinks that will be 200...I'm thinking 100mg. I try to stay on as low a dose as possible. I am VERY sensitive to meds. I was on 20mg Celexa for a long time and most folks take 40-60. 1/2 of the lowest dose of Ambien knocks me out. When I increased my dose of Seroquel from 25mg to 50, I actually fell down the last few stairs coming downstairs at 5am to let the dog out. I;ve got the scars to prove it!
so, anyway...I'm on 225mg Effexor and 50mg Seroquel right now. I agreed to up the Seroquel to 75mg this weekend. We'll see how it goes.
I was suppposed to see my little sis tonight. We usually do sister night on Tuesdays. I never heard back from her if it would work this week for her or not. So after my doc appt I went over there. The only one home was my dad but it worked out really well. I had been wanting to talk to him about my little sis for quite a while. For some reason, my step-mom is keeping my sister's problems (BP or something...not sure yet...she's only 15) a secret from my dad. I felt he had a right to know. and I've been really worried about her. In Nov she was talking suicide and I also found out she's been cutting herself. She's on meds but they're prescribed by her pediatrician. He's a very competent doc but he's not seeing her regularly. It's more of a "call if you need anything" arrangement. That's not cool. She's still having lots of problems. Anyway, I talked with my dad about it and he was very receptive surprisingly. He hasn't always been that way. But we talked about a lot of things and it went really well. Better than I ever expected. I read him a poem I wrote about my sis and he cried and hugged me and thanked me for telling him and asked for more info to get my sis some help. I am so glad and so relieved. He said he'd talk to my step-mom about the whole situation. I don't want to get in the middle of his marriage but I really didn't think it was right to keep him in the dark about his own daughter.
anyway, I need to get to bed. I have work tomorrow! I should be home the next couple nights if you get some free time.
L13
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