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Going to try to be quiet-ish for the next few days, as all that's going on in my head is how this medication is making my brain richochet around like a ferrett on acid in a very small box and is making me dizzy - thought-dizzy, not body-dizzy. And also how agitated my body is. Twitch twitch. Like being toxically over-caffeinated. But without actually having any more caffeine than my usual single cup of coffee. Wanting to yell/scream. Wanted to cut last night, but didn't. Be proud!
I have to get through this. I have to get through this. I have to get through this. Because it might get *better*.
It'll just take me, um, at least two months. To stabilize.
But there is not a goddamn thing I can do about that. Two-plus months of this and then maybe no side effects, or minimal side effects.... or running back to Lamictal, do not pass go, do not collect $200, and deal with known side effects.
Fuuuuuck.
This is really unpleasant.
Unpleasant is an understatement.
This is Day Two of 200mg/Lamictal and 500mg/Keppra.
I'm going to be going up to 1,000mg of Keppra.
I am not handling 500 well At All. But then, at 300 Lamictal when I was first building up, I was literally falling down...
Aaaagh.
Anyway. That's really all I can think about. That and Fred the Breast Lump, but hopefully they'll discover on Monday that Fred is benign and I won't have that to worry about.
Just. Really fucking unpleasant.
Understatement.
And that's what's going on in MY world.
I have to get through this. I have to get through this. I have to get through this. Because it might get *better*.
It'll just take me, um, at least two months. To stabilize.
But there is not a goddamn thing I can do about that. Two-plus months of this and then maybe no side effects, or minimal side effects.... or running back to Lamictal, do not pass go, do not collect $200, and deal with known side effects.
Fuuuuuck.
This is really unpleasant.
Unpleasant is an understatement.
This is Day Two of 200mg/Lamictal and 500mg/Keppra.
I'm going to be going up to 1,000mg of Keppra.
I am not handling 500 well At All. But then, at 300 Lamictal when I was first building up, I was literally falling down...
Aaaagh.
Anyway. That's really all I can think about. That and Fred the Breast Lump, but hopefully they'll discover on Monday that Fred is benign and I won't have that to worry about.
Just. Really fucking unpleasant.
Understatement.
And that's what's going on in MY world.
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The Lamotrigine has some nasty "rare" side effects, but they're not nearly as common as the Keppra, nor as scary. I read because I wanted to know and I'm glad that you speak of your epilepsy. You're informed and intelligent and honest about your experiences.
Fred will be benign, I have faith in that, because Ethel (my counterpart) was. Just the coincidence in our breast-pet-lump names tells me that Fred will be benign.
You've got my sincerest hope that physical peace finds you, soon. I wish you nothing but health and happiness.
In a completely unrelated 'thing' I'm glad I'm not the only one who spells ferrett with an extra T when not actually speaking about
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The Lamotrigine has some nasty "rare" side effects
That's the thing about me... I'm a mutant! I get the rare ones.
And thank you re: the stuff about how I write about my health...
Fred and Ethel - hee!
Geez, I didn't even notice the ferrett/Ferrett thing. Hee! I'll leave it like that, though. Because the image of
<i>The Lamotrigine has some nasty "rare" side effects</i>
That's the thing about me... I'm a mutant! I get the rare ones.
And thank you re: the stuff about how I write about my health...
Fred and Ethel - hee!
Geez, I didn't even notice the ferrett/Ferrett thing. Hee! I'll leave it like that, though. Because the image of <theferrett"> going "eeeeee" and hallucinating and ricocheting around a shoebox amuses me.
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And the Lactimal, I found under Lamotrigine.
I found other stuff when I first was looking, but these two seemed to have the information each of the other sites offered. Yahoo! Health Drug Index rocks my world.
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Hug, if that's, like, ok with all the frazzlement.
(My dad's name is Fred. But he's got a tumor of his own. So it fits.)
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Which ain't fun, because I'm doing a medicine transition so my body will be acting weird, and stress is my primary seizure trigger...
...have I mentioned that I'm getting married in two and a half months? And that I don't have a dress yet, because I keep shrinking?
Hi!
I hope your dad's tumor is benign...
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(My dad's tumor is in fact benign, and I think he's had it for like 6 years now (it's behind his pituitary gland), it's just /I/ only found out about it a WEEK ago. Ahem.)
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Congrats on your wedding. I am sure you will get your dress just in time. You have other stuff to worry about right now.
*HUGS*
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you actually might want to quit the caffeine for a bit...might be to much stimulation on top of everything else. ;)
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Keppra made me exploade out of my skin and it never got better.
I hated the stuff.
good luck
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I'll definitely post results on Monday... thanks. :)
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Doesn't it suck how everything like this seems to come at once?
I am going through a whole bunch of medical issues, an upcoming operation and medication changes right now as well...
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