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Red face Jul 14, 2019 at 11:22 AM
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hi there!
We made it home last night.
All is well here...not sure of surrounding areas.
tornadoes have been seen in areas around baton rouge, about an hour away from us.
We took the vwery long way home to avoid Baton rouge last night so it was a couple of hours longer...took us 10 hours to get home.
though an hour of that was stopping in alexandria for a nice italian dinner.
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Red face Jul 17, 2019 at 06:34 AM
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I need help.
Will call my psych doctor....
My sleep is horrible.I was awake at 3am this morning (could not get comfortable)
Melatonin is not working! Up at 6 am. Bizi's thread:
I have not slept well ever since my doctor discontinued my klonipin.
Have been running hypo for about a month.
It is getting really out of hand....my life is needing a shake down.
I need to start dieting again.
Eating freely and drinking like a fish sets me up for poor sleeping.
And I am starting to notice heart burn and indigestion,
took tums and zantac last night.
Need to stop this drinking! Bizi's thread:
Am going to an AA meeting tonight at 6pm.
Will touch base with my sponsor via telephone if she is not there tonight.
I am off to take a much needed shower.
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Red face Jul 18, 2019 at 08:41 PM
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Thank you!
After many conversations and such with my pdoc office staff yesterday and today. I finally just said that I have been hypo for 5 weeks. And that my sleep has been off for as long.
Well that made a difference.
I am to increase my zyprexa to 15mg for the next 3 nights to stop the hypo mania....which I don't think will be long enough. I am supposed to call on monday to see how I am doing.
She only wants me to have 1 cup of coffee in the morning and if I am to drink alcohol drink it earlier in the evening as that will effect my sleep.
Still just take the melatonin as before.
I am hoping that I will not have these impulsive/compulsive addictions out of control.
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we had a great time....I liked the sour beer that I drank.
Had a delicious shrimp salad with soy ginger dressing.
It had a lot of toppings:
dice apples
grilled onions
pico deguillo

black olives

diced tomatoes

half an avocado
good greens
it was delicious!!!!
I think I will go the the UU fellowship for church

services in the morning, 1030 is fellowship.
Jeff is gone tonight he will be back tomorrow evening.
He said he really wanted to cut back on his drinking...does not want to ruin the next day with a hang over.
So will see about that
I hate being alone.
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Red face Jul 21, 2019 at 04:36 PM
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I slept in late today.....out of bed at 11am. I needed some sleep so the medication is working. (missed church)
On to my next cup of coffee.
Am going to hub city diner for my BELT (Bacon lettuce tomato and egg sandwich)
I love it!
Got on the scale this morning 192.7....
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need to get serious about my weight.
Need to do laundry today like usual for a sunday.
I hope every one is safe and cool...
The heat indexes are scary across the country.
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Red face Jul 22, 2019 at 08:28 PM
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WEll I spoke with Dr. orazio today ( my PDOC) and she wants me to start taking visteril an anti- histamine to sleep at night and 18mg of melatonin...I have never heard of taking that much have you?

She said to discontinue the zyprexa because of my restless legs...a symptom of TD. So we don't want to mess around with that. Thank goodness. I think I remember taking that in the past and having the same effect. I forget that.Bizi's thread:

I am glad that she is willing to prescribe something new.
I hope I sleep tonight.Bizi's thread:

So I told charmaine that I feel like I have OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder. She said to wait until my next appointment to discuss this. I asked her to relay this to my pdoc Dr. Orazio before so she has time to think about it.

Spend a good part of the day thinking about my compulsions(food, internet and alcohol, and picking). I think these can all be from an OCD type diagnosis. Carol is the one to mention it to me.


I called my sponsor (Carol) and told her that I was still drinking and that I wondered if I was right for AA. She said that there are a lot of people who still drink and go to AA. So I am still going to meet with her tomorrow night at 6pm and then go to the AA meeting at 8 pm on wednesday.

After work tonight I stopped by fat pats for a few beers.
After that I picked up my new rx for the visteril.

Jeff cooked Talapia for dinner tonight along with some edemami, It was delicious!. After cleaning up the dishes I came on here.
Having another beer or two before we watch downton abbey.
We really have been enjoying the show. The movie comes out in the fall I believe, looking forward to that.

Our kitty hattie has reoccurring cancer on her back. It has been operated 2 times and now has come back the third time so we are going to take her to baton rouge for an assessment and guidance toward chemo therapy. We can see doing that and not radiation. That would mean going to baton rouge once every 3 weeks like humans....not sure ...will wait and see what they recommend. It is an injection site tumor.
WE re just waiting for the cancer/tumor to cut off the blood supply to the skin above it to die and become a wound like the two last times. When that happens she will have to have dressing changes and wear the thunder shirt to hold the dressing in place.Bizi's thread:
Not sure where to go from here.....she is a sweet kittie and young 10 years old.
She is too young to just throw in the towel.
We don't have kids we have cats.
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Red face Jul 23, 2019 at 10:05 PM
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Met with my sponsor tonight, Carol.
I like her.
She gives sage advice and makes me think.
She is willing to go thru the 12 steps with me using the book
"A woman's way thru the twelve steps".
The original big book was written in the 30s.
I have not read it nor do I plan to.
Am sure it is out dated and written by a bunch of men.
So, I will order her a copy so she can read it herself.
Shared with her that I go to fat pats after work for a few beers
and talk to the bar tenders and maybe a person at the counter if the situation arises.
But usually I am there by myself surfing face book.
Now mind you ....I have beer at home!
I could easily just come home and have a beer.
But it is not the same.
I have gotten used to this habit.
I had 4 x10 oz beers...so that is about 3 1/2 beers.
That is enough for tonight.
Hubby was not feeling good when I called so I ate dinner at Pats.
Had a double bacon lettuce tomato sandwich
with a side of sweet potato fries which were great!
Came home and Hubby was not doing well at all.
Before the evening was over he threw up several times.
Poor guy. I hate throwing up.
He said he was having back pains.
It is frustrating for me because he won't
let me put some CBD cream on his back.

Tonight I am going to take the generic form of benadryl
instead of the hydroxine (visteril). Both are anti histamines,
so I would rather take an over the counter dose to see if it works.
I am still going to take the mega dose of melatonin like she said.
I have taken benadryl in the past..it worked well for about 2 years
then stopped but that was a very long time ago.
I am willing it to work this time again.

Getting ready to get to bed early.
Hope I sleep! and I hope hubby feels better in the morning.

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Unhappy Jul 24, 2019 at 02:57 AM
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I took 18mg of melatonin
50mg of benadryl
100mg of hydroyzine (visteril)
I have restless legs and can't sleep.
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Red face Jul 24, 2019 at 09:06 PM
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Since my pdoc took me off of klonipin I have not been sleeping well.
She has me taking 18mg of melatonin. She wants me to take them 2 hours in advance. Then take the immediate 3mg of melatonin 30 minutes before bed.
To take the visteril 30 minutes before bed also. I tried taking benadryl last night by itself and it did not put me to sleep. so I took a visteril after 1am, got up at 3 and wrote on line for 45 min, was yawning so went back to bed and slept from 3:45am to 7:30am.
I am really tired, I had a few beers tonight and stopped before 6pm.
So am hoping that doesn't interfer with me getting a good nights sleep. I feel I could sleep on my own I am so tired.

Am getting up earlier this week for 8:30am appointments, and I work saturday again.

It was a bit cooler today less humidity, nice reprieve.
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slept about 7 hours last night so that is an improvement!
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Red face Jul 26, 2019 at 08:47 AM
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I tried a new sleeping aid called unisom it has doxylamine succinate in it as the main ingredient.
I drank too much and it did not work which is not giving it a good try. Hubby suggested that I not drink and see if it worked.
at 2 am I got out of bed having not slept and took the visteril and immediate release 3mg melatonin and got to sleep rather quickly. and slept until the alarm went off at 7:30. Got out of bed at 8;30 and had a cup of coffee.
Need to hop into the shower and take a quick one before getting my hair colored, roots touched up have to leave in about half an hour.
yikes need to get going!
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Red face Jul 29, 2019 at 09:07 PM
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I spoke to kay and she and I came to the conclusion that an added med to my cocktail might be just the ticket to stability.
Gabapenton(neurontin)_not sure if I spelled either of these names correctly.
I will write my pdoc tonight. and request her guidance.

I am still drinking too much and have stalled in my day to day activities.
I keep ignoring my billing....hate the paper work part of my job,
and charting and filing...
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I meet with my sponsor tomorrow night...CarolBizi's thread:
My new book came in...will give it to her.
A woman's way thru the 12 steps.
She agreed to go thru this book with me

as opposed to the big book...which was written in the 30's.

AM feeling stagnant with my addictions. Alcohol, internet, food, picking sigh all ocd type behaviors.

Between drinking, stopping off at fat pats after work for a few beers. then coming home after picking up some sparking flavored waters, spiked no less. I went to the pharmacy and asked to see if good rx could give me some savings on my prescriptions. yes I saved $60 total. Came home and realized that I picked up a med that had been discontinued but since I came home with it they can not take it back. sigh
wasted money....but I saved money so it evened out. I was still ahead.

WE have been watching Downton Abby and loving it. The movie comes out in the fall, looking forward to that!
WE try to watch one episode a night...we are on season 5 there are 6 seasons.

I need to figure out my day tomorrow. Have 4-5 people to see.
life is good.
and a gift....
need to work on appreciating my life.
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Hope you like "A woman's way through the 12 steps." I really liked its approach.

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Red face Jul 31, 2019 at 11:00 PM
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Dr. Orazio called and asked to see me today, she thought I was rapid cycling.
So I met with her...appointment at 3, did not get to see her until 3;40.
She spent over an hour with me.
Basically I told her that I run hypomanic and that I wanted to change meds, add on neurontin. she did not want to do that.

WE are changing to lithium and vylar.

Decreasing the lamictal starting tonight. Decreasing by 100mg then add lithium and leave a small dose of lamictal. they did an ekg and I am to do blood work before I start the lithium. Then a level after 5 days at full dose.

I have needed a change for some time now...maybe lithium is the change that I need.
Came home and told him that she wanted to admit me to a detox unit for 30 days or an out patient program which I said I would think about.
Since I want to still try at controlled drinking then I needed to be honest with my sponsor about that. She will drop me if I told her that. She is very wise and I like her, don't want to lose her support.
anyway....
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Red face Aug 02, 2019 at 09:23 PM
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So I talked with my sponsor today: Carol
I told her of my struggles and was honest about my drinking still.
And how I needed to come up with another activity to do instead of stop by fat pats for a couple of beers after work. I like it, it is a decompress time for myself....I sit have a couple of drinks and surf facebook and enjoy myself. This takes about half an hour.

I got my blood drawn this morning for baseline, took 2 sticks, ouch!
Need to pick up my meds from the pharmacy tomorrow and maybe fill a pill box. I think that is a good idea until my meds are settled and the new ones are routine..

Last night...I was able to get to sleep but woke up later and could not get back to sleep....
sigh
Sleep issues suck.
I am working tomorrow...5 clients, need to make time for a lunch somehow, maybe go somewhere like burger king! Maybe have me a whopper! Bizi's thread:
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Tomorrow night we are seeing a play which should be good.
Have not seen a play in a while now.
We used to go to them regularly...I would like to go more often.
I am off on sunday....so that is good.
It has been raining off and on so the grass is really plush and constantly needs mowing.
Paul, our yard guy has a hard time keeping up with everybody.
Our yard is growing tassels!
Hubby just called for Downton Abby.
We are finishing up season five soon.
Have really enjoyed rewatching the series.
Well I had better sign off.
Thank you for reading!
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Unhappy Aug 06, 2019 at 08:40 AM
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I think the switch form lamictal to lithium is an easy switch. I think the switch from geodon to vraylar will be difficult....will see.


My addictions just keep getting worse.
my picking is terrible. have 3 fingers out of commission.

My weight is 194 yesterday...sigh

Good news is that I am sleeping better.

From my lab work ...my calcium is elevated again.
10.5
In january, When I was taking 1400 mg of calcium it was 10.3 so she told me to take 500mg.
WEll I cut it in half because I have a history of osteopenia.
Then a month on the lower dose had blood work done and it had dropped down to normal.
6 months later, So at 700mg it is back up again.
Wonder why?
I did not take any calcium last night...don't want to have a heart attack!
They faxed the lab results to my primary doc for her to evaluate and treat.
I don't like having any thing out of whack.
Thank you for reading.
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Red face Aug 10, 2019 at 08:03 PM
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I am frustrated.
My sleeping has been terrible. Last night I think I got in 3 hours.
Since I drink she discontinued the klonipin for sleep and I have been a mess since then. Some good sleep mostly not.
I tried seroquel, trazadone, unisom, melatonin, visteril/atarax.


The change from lamictal to llithium has been seamless.
300mg in am and 600mg at night. Tonight was the first full dose then blood work on thursday. she wants to keep me on 100mg of lamictal too.
When we switch from geodon to vraylar....that will be a more difficult switch. I don't know when she wants to do this.

My routine blood work last feb came back with an elevated blood serum calcium level. At that time I was taking 1400mg of calcium.
I cut the calcium back and then retested one month later and it was back within normal limits. Though, just last week I had labs drawn for baseline results and the calcium was even higher this time. So they told me to hold all calcium suppliments. I asked about hyperparathyroidism and they will run the test when we recheck in a month. I want to be able to take the calcium supplements because I have a history of osteopenia.
So we shall see.

Unstable mood/bipolar/OCD=
increased drinking, eating, computer, picking.
I am hoping for better control with the med changes in time and have more control over my addictions.

bizi

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150mg of lamictal 2x a day
haldol 5mg 2x a day
1mg of cogentin 2x a day
klonipin , 1mg at night,
4-5 peri-colace for chronic constipation


multi vit,, vit c, at noon, tumeric, caffeine at noon
PRN Remeron 15mg at night,
zyprexa10mg under tongue,
requip2mg.





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My pdoc offered me inpatient rehab and others have suggested this....which I resented because I am not that bad of an alcoholic.
I have a respectable business and don't miss work except when I can't sleep and miss a couple of clients that I have to make up.

Alcohol interferes with my ability to be healthy.
There are too many empty calories.
I know how to lose weight....I just can't seem to do what it takes.
Would like to think that I could go to the gym and walk on the tred mill, last time I was there I could hardly walk at all.
The truth of the matter is that I am obese and out of shape.
What is it going to take for me to wake up and face the facts.

I was alcohol free for lent. That was for 6 weeks but I did it. I am sure that I lost weight during that time. Being this overweight is unhealthy.
Drinking alcohol is unhealthy, being sedentary is unhealthy.
I am embarrassed by my weight and what I have become.
My poor body....4 years ago I was 137, last week I weighed 195.
My scrubs are so tight. I look terrible and so unprofessional.

sigh
I am not even trying to healthy...why am I not trying?????
sigh
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150mg of lamictal 2x a day
haldol 5mg 2x a day
1mg of cogentin 2x a day
klonipin , 1mg at night,
4-5 peri-colace for chronic constipation


multi vit,, vit c, at noon, tumeric, caffeine at noon
PRN Remeron 15mg at night,
zyprexa10mg under tongue,
requip2mg.





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