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The risperidone seems to have really helped with the hallucinating and the agitation plus im guessing the increased lithium. I have basically quit on the diazepam. Yes it helps anxiety but makes me way too drowsy and fuzzy headed to be properly functional for my kids. Am just gonna have to man up and deal with the anxiety…

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No he was just determined to go out he had been playing it from before me getting bad and it clearly wasnt gonna stop him even though he knew i was a mess. He did get stroppy about being called back then said he knew if id actually gone as far as admitting i needed his help it was a bad time and chilled out. I saw the dr…

Aye. Yesterday bad day. Diazepam wore off pretty quick and i was just shot away. My husband took it into his head to go out and leave me with the kids and i ended up ringing him demanding he came home because i could t deal with the bugs on my skin, the movements, the racing thoughts, noise or even being touched. Did sleep…

I had the diazepam on top of the other three meds and slept ten til seven. Am still twitchy and now also shaky and heads going super fast but its a start

Am already outpatient under recovery team i have a community psychiatric nurse and a psychiatric who coordinate my meds and treatment

Ive been on venlafaxine at varying doses since last year so am not too concerned about its some effects as 150 is low for me ive been as high as 375 although that induced a mind mania and it was.overdosing on it in feb along with stress than induced a big one. So now they watch it closer as its super effects for depression…

Thanks both of you. Started the fifty of quetiapine twice a day yesterday evening along with the new doses of venlafaxine and lithium. Didnt touch me so far was up til two am writing down everything i could think of then up at ten to six this morning and on the go. And i am NOT a morning person. Still jittering but the…

Seroquel is an extended release formulation. Generic quetiapine is immediate release ergo twice a day. If i end up on it longer term will ask for the ER so i can tailor it to my work shifts im only on fifty atm and so manic its only making minimal inroads but i am more tired and i only slept two am to six thirty am last…

Yeah quetiapine is seroquel. Am now on 50 twice a day on top of 800 lithium and 150 venlafaxine. Today am still jittering i get a lot of psychomotor agitation when high and jiggle my legs constantly. Also still very frustrated and angry wanting to smash things and my noise tolerance is zero with things like car engines…

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Sorry ive been absent. Will try and answer. Wendy ive not been to gym since novber.but am hankering to go back so it may be im picking up heavy things again soon. Im also getting my puppy sunday so will be walking/running with him asap. Carly. Ty. Yeah maybe they will get my meds right now though my brains gone a little…

Sorry im not about but sending a hug

Thanks for coming back cari I will pm you to finish this conversation

Xpost alert Well in a nutshell I was doing great last year, hitting the gym hard, had dropped over 50lb and was perilously close to hitting my 4 stone. Then the black dog bit me in the *kitten*. I have had mental health problems for years and should have seen it coming but I was so focussed on getting promoted at work I…

Thanks everybody. Well in a nutshell I was doing great last year, hitting the gym hard, had dropped over 50lb and was perilously close to hitting my 4 stone. Then the black dog bit me in the *kitten*. I have had mental health problems for years and should have seen it coming but I was so focussed on getting promoted at…

How was the kombucha. Saw.you have had problems with your bloods sorry for that. I went for a meeting at the school today and started the early help process. So far it was just a lot of note taking and talking and probably won't hear anything til after the half term holidays now. But it was hard opening up to a total…

Well done Wendy that's awesome

Thankyou hon. The good thoughts and hugs are very welcomed. My best friends daughter has aspergers so I do have a good resource to pull on luckily and shes been brilliant in listening to me and helping me come to the decision to go to the school for help and support. Without her I'd probably still be struggling on. My…

Thanks Carly. Well Ive sorted out the sittingroom and am sitting typing this with my light on. Mr J has also said hes back on plan with me from tomorrow as we have a weekend off together so we can go shopping. Next step is dealing with my little miss. At best shes having behaviourial issues and at worst im concerned she…

Hey Carly, Ron Yeah as Carly said ive got SAD and have 10000 lux light for it, I do find it helps when I use it. As yet havent rearranged the sittingroom but on holiday this week so its on my to do list. Yeah still waiting on appointments. CBT has started but the ME clinic havent got back to me yet. New meds do actually…

Things are a bit tough here if im honest. Im stress eating and eating way too much, barely training and have gained 7-8lb

Its less exciting than it sounds I did the chopped chicken in a wok then added reduced fat creme fraiche, a dollop of wholegrain mustard and some black pepper. It was pretty tasty though

I toyed with the idea of going into counselling but decided against it. I hate my job but i love my job and its probably my calling as it is. But if I were to ever leave it I think i'd want to be a PT. Good luck with the future

Even if I wasnt so anti group work (seriously, room full of strangers - boke) it collides with me picking my kds up from school so its a no go. So Im on a waiting list - le sigh

As I understand it from AA (not me) its not so much about expecting a higher power to fix it all as much as 'ok you got yourself into this mess, you can get out of it but it wont hurt to accept a little help from [insert your own god here]'. Everything Ive ever seen about AA and ive been around it more than once is that…

Thanks. So do I. Im never entirely sure what to do for the best lol

I reset my target some time back to something Ive actually been in my adult life rather than the unrealistic goal I had set myself prior to that that in truth probably hadnt featured on my scales since I was in college.

Im doing ok at taking it at the moment, Im taking the effexor in the morning and the remeron in the evening and managing to remember which is also when i take my iron so I get that twice a day now too. The chronic fatigue clinic rang to offer me group sessions today which I turned down a)mostly because it collided with the…