Posted by Renee N on February 22, 2000, at 23:16:23
I had a long weekend(President;s Day) and just slept it away. I would crawl back to bed after being up only an hour or two. I was yawning in the shower right after getting up from seven or more hours of sleep. I could barely stay awake at work today. I take 225mg Effexor XR(recently went up in two baby steps from 150. I had read that sometimes you need a higher dose to get to the energizing effect!? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but I have read it more than once. I also take 150mg Wellbutrin Sr, and 10 mg of ADDerall three times a day. At one time I took 30 mg of ADDerall twice a day, or was it three times? Anyway my pdoc had me lower the ADDerall due to BP problems. I'm now on BP medicine, and my BP is back in the normal range. I feel like getting off all my meds, because nothing helps my *@#! memory and pooor attention to detail anyway! Maybe I should go back to just coping with the ADD the best I can, and learning to accept what I can't change. I had big plans about all the housework I could get done with the extra day off. What a joke!I feel like an incompetent loser.
It sure didn't help that today I had to go pay $20 to get my speeding conviction back to court. I paid the fine the day I got it, but didn't send the request for court supervision in in time, so I was convicted. Now I also will lose a day's pay at work. Subs don't get paid when they don't work.
I realize that others here have some much more serious problems than I do, but I needed to tell someone how I'm feeling. My husband certainly doesn't want to hear it. My pdoc told me to come in every 3 weeks for awhile, until we can find the right meds, or figure out if ADD, or depression, or both are the cause of my problems. Well, that was right before Christmas! The receptionist said she would call when they figured out his new schedule of having med checks on Saturdays now. A couple of weeks ago I called, and she said that their computer was down for 5 days, so it wasn't a good time to ask about schedules. Yesterday I wnet in to pick up a scrip, and finally got an appointment for the middle of March. Should I change pdocs? Are they all like this? Are the only ones who take hmo patients a bunch of losers desperate for patients? If I do change, what do I do? Do I tell the old one why I'm changing, or just do it and ask him to send my records?
poster:Renee N
thread:23255
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