The Not Happy Thread

My new medicine has not only produced muscle spasms (ticks), now I'm stuttering. It picks its times and can be annoying. The spasm CAUSE ME TO HIT THE mOUSE BUTTONS WHEN i DON'T WANT TO THAT CAN CAUSE ABSOLUTE CATASTROPHES, BUT IT CAN CAUSE ME TO QUICKLY MOVE MY ARM AND SLAM INTO THE SIDE OF MY COMPUTER. tHISI S PISSING ME OFF.

I left it in large font to prove a point.

 

Wth, that's terrible! I hope those side effects don't last.

Feeling a little overwhelmed and lonely. I miss my family. Well, the part of them that's missing, I guess. On the other hand, I suppose I can only call myself blessed to have them.

 

That's horrible. I started new meds the week before last and took them for almost two weeks. I also seemed to develop the flu for the entire time. I wasn't contagious, obviously, since no one else in my family was getting sick, and I never ran a fever. Then it finally dawned on me that it might be the medication. I Googled it, and sure enough flu-like symptoms are a huge complaint. Stopped taking them, and felt better immediately.

So now I get to choose between feeling horribly depressed or feeling like I permanently have the flu. I think I'd rather be depressed, but ask me again next week when the half-life runs out.

 

No, go back the the doc and ask them if there is another option. There are many options for treating depression.

 

Like exercise and Vitamin D and not being brow beaten by your Mum

 

@No-Name Slob - My personal/anecdotal advice regarding depression: make sure your doc actually goes through the diagnostic process rather than assuming it is primary depression. After years of having ineffective pills funnelled in, I eventually bullied mine into some tests (including specialist referral), and what do you know? I have a sleep disorder to which the depression is secondary. Now that I'm treating that, I've managed to finish a few things that should have been done years ago, and have some overall hope again (...currently a few speed bumps with the treatment - it's relatively early days - but that's beside the point).

I'm not saying primary depression isn't common, mind, so please don't take my (= the internet's) word as gospel; I just think that many doctors make assumptions and forego the proper work-up, so that's something I'd look out for, especially if you've already trialled some treatment to no avail.

Anyway, I'm very sorry for anyone going through medication side effects, and I can only imagine how frustrating yours must be @Lewdog If it's not too personal, what drug is it? (If that is too personal, please disregard and hopefully get past the side effects soon.)

 

Have you considered cognitive behavioral therapy? It's not a panacea for everybody, but multiple studies have shown it can be equally or more helpful than medication for many people--and not just for the more mild cases.

 

Sounds like when I used to get hot flashes like a woman when I was taking Paxil.

 

I'm pretty sure it is the new medicine Olanzapine.

 

I get high jacked last night by someone. My computer changed to an advertisement for 'Beamer Motors' I think is. I couldn't go anywhere. And I was not looking at porn. Hell it happened when I wasn't even on my computer. So I went ahead and hooked my Terra-byte hard drive and am at the moment trying to remember my book marks.

 

I totally agree. I'm pretty sure mine is due to hormonal issues, but my doctor thinks I'm nuts because I'm so young. However, all the women in my family went through menopause in their early 30's and have struggled with hormonal and thyroid issues all their lives. But I asked her to check my hormones and they were within the normal range, even if on the low side of normal, so there isn't anything she will do for me besides treat the "symptoms," and give me antidepressants

 

Bleh. 30s is damn young.

 

Yeah, I've done some CBT, but I don't have insurance and therapy is insanely expensive, even when it is covered. We really need to do a better job in the mental health department here in the states.

 

That is true.

I have no idea if you think this would work for you or not--feel free to ignore me--but I designed my own CBT program for my social anxiety and it's worked well for me. I don't have an education in clinical psychology, but the CBT system was designed to allow the client to help themselves without the aid of a therapist. You might benefit from on your own outlining the problem/constructing goals/developing coping skills and techniques/keeping a journal of events/writing out responses to the events. It doesn't take much time, the downside is nil, and the price is definitely right. If you decided you wanted to do this, there are a number of websites that explain the CBT process pretty well and could help you set up a program for yourself.

 

Do you see this dog, ? He deserves better, I left him in Kansas
And he's so fat, like a stick of butter. He's an emotional eater.

I feel like such a loser.
"Guilou!!!!! October buddy October."

 

Wisdom tooth giving me gyp today. Need to take medication for the pain and didn't get to sleep last night (this morning) until gone 3am.

 

had a good holiday away, but the kicker was the fact that my phone, bank card and driving license are now somewhere in the Norfolk Broads never to be seen again -.-

 

Lots of things can cause vertigo, including the ear infection or blocked ear.

I occasionally get what the doctors call 'positional vertigo' caused by a misaligned vertebra at the bottom of my neck ...just at the shoulder. The room spins really really fast every time I open my eyes. I've learned to deal with it as a chronic but not acute condition, and have only had two really bad 'bouts' with it in the past 10 years, but both of them kept me in bed (eyes tightly shut) for about 3 days at a stretch. If I opened my eyes, I threw up. If I kept them shut I felt fine. It was VERY frustrating. Fortunately the layout to my house is familiar, so I was able to do most things with my eyes shut. At least I know what it is. It can be brought on by simply turning my head wrong, sleeping wrong, bending over and hearing that teltale 'snap' that means ...shit, not again.

Best to get a doctor on this one, to make sure it's nothing serious.

 

Did you lose them, or were they stolen? Do you know?

 

I have taken Facebook by the short hairs, and made it do my will! I block everybody (not unfriend, just block) who posts too much stuff, or is too argumentative, or I don't want to read every day. They don't know I've blocked them, so we can still be 'friends' —if we ever were. Some are people I've not seen since grade school, and when they asked to Friend me I said yes. Now it turns out they are incredibly right wing, and you know what? Life is short. I don't want to know.

I've also got an old short-term boyfriend—old as in I broke it off with him 50 years ago!—who just won't let things lie. He's still going on about how wonderful we were together (we definitely were NOT, which is why I broke it off.) Every single thing I say he breenges in with some comment about how things used to be in his fairytale world and do I remember when—comments that often contain bold and unwelcome innuendoes. I was carrying on a conversation on my status about something totally unrelated last week when he broke in to tell me that he'd just been back in our home town and had driven past my old house in a fit of nostalgia, and that his 'lips are sealed' as to what happened when we once stopped at another location nearby. Erm...nothing happened, actually, but that's not what my current friends are going to think. The flipping cheek!

I finally sent him a private message, telling him that we are now interacting 50 years on from when we last saw each other, that he is married and I am married, and if there is any point in continuing this Facebook friendship, it has to be on the basis of what's happening now, not what happened—or what he wishes had happened—back in Days of Yore. If he doesn't put a sock in it immediately, he will be unfriended. I don't need to put up with that crap. It certainly made me remember why I broke up with him in the first place! Eeyuk. But hell. I was only 16. What do you know at that age, eh?

 

Getting a ten year service award from my job in a week or so. Can't help but to consider this a huge failure on my part to do anything more with my life work wide in that lost decade.

 

A free to use, reliable online CBT programme courtesy of the Australian government:

https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome

CBT can be useful when depression is caused by life events, but not if it's a chemical imbalance. Completing the course might help you narrow things down?

 

That sounds, Awful, jannert! You do describe my symptoms, albeit very magnified. I was lying in bed when mine occurred, and it seems to have been triggered when I just turned my head a certain way.

I've got an appointment at the docs on Thursday for a full MOT, so I'll prob mention it then.

 

You are more patient than I. The consistently negative responses were enough for me to block one ex. Life's too short. No warning. Just gone.

 

Funny you should mention this ... I had a client yesterday who has recently found herself suffering from bouts of vertigo. She went to the doctor, and discovered that there are these little crystals in your inner ear that are lodged in a specific area. For various reasons, some unknown but often due to head trauma (even minor), they can become unlodged and float around in your ear fluid, causing sufferers to feel severe vertigo and nausea when they move their heads. Hers is worse when she's laying down.

She has an appointment coming up where they will wiggle her head around until the crystals go back to where they belong. Apparently, the treatment will make you very sick, but it does the trick most of the time without surgery.

http://www.michiganear.com/bppv-fact-sheet.html