Posted by chemist on May 5, 2004, at 12:38:59
In reply to Re: Hey Chemist - How Do I Gain Weight On Meds?, posted by Camille Dumont on May 5, 2004, at 11:09:13
hmmmmm, interesting with the visual stuff...i was tempted to suggest palinopsia, but you seem to present with symptoms not consistent with palinopsia - entirely.....if you can live with it - and it sounds as if you can - then my hat is off to you...all the best, chemist
> Yes, but unfortunately my "genetic markers" also give me absence seizures on atypical APs.
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> Technically they're not absolutely necessaire ... or at least its what I've decided. Pdoc always tries to push them on me ... actually mentioned the same as you. Her main reason is because I see stuff but its only visual not super disturbing or scary ... it only makes me jump in surprise sometimes. For example, yesterday night I was watching the floor and then the patern on the floor tiles started to move and ondulate like a wave and this morning I was watching my rats sleep and they would grow and shrink intermitently ... back and forth ... sometimes I will interpret small reflections of the light as actual things or people ... or I will see words when in fact its not what is really written. But after closer inspection things "come back" to normal
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> Sometimes its even downright humorous because words will change (and turn up as very funny) and I will see things that are totally impossible so I know its not real. But in the end I've decided to learn to live with them rather than be completely zombified by the APs.
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> I've also told my pdoc : weight gain is unacceptable. If you give me something tha makes me grow fat ... its simple ... I just won't take it. But she's a very nice lady ... kind of why she suggested the Celexa as an augmenting agent instead of say Paxil and such.
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