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megpie71 (megpie71) wrote,
@ 2009-07-01 12:24:00

Current mood:

giddy

Wooo... drugs
Yesterday was my appointment with the psychiatrist, which went pretty much as expected - me giving her a potted history of my life, and she asked a few questions and let me ramble. Then things turned to the serious business of what to be doing about the depression, and the decision was to supplement the meds I'm on with another one, rather than changing them completely.

So, I'm now taking half a 4mg tab of Edronax each morning, for the next couple of days, then I get to take half in the morning and half at night. One of the side-effects of this medication is that it can cause dizziness for some people, and it appears I'm one of them. I'm currently feeling a bit distanced from the world, like I'm having a low blood pressure day, and moving my head too fast makes me feel all wheee. Sort of weird. Of course, I've been sitting upright all morning in front of the computer, so that's probably why. I was thinking of getting back to the job search today, but I think I'll pass until I know whether this is going to be a constant thing or whether it'll wear off. If it's going to be a constant thing, I'll probably need to learn how to brain again before I can actually start thinking about working.

[Keanu Reeves]Whoa.[/Keanu Reeves]

I think I shall go have a bit of a lie down.

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	princess_kessie 2009-07-02 06:23 am UTC (link)
	Here's hoping the new drugs help :) cuddles (Reply to this) (Thread)

megpie71
2009-07-03 01:02 am UTC (link)

Well, they seem to be - yesterday I added an iron supplement into the mix, and that seems to have gotten rid of the "whoa, drugs" feeling anyway (which means Wednesday might just have been an ordinary low blood pressure day after all - I was almost certainly due one). We shall see how things go after adding the other half a tablet on Sunday afternoon. I've gone back to keeping a diary to keep track of what's happening with all the various signs and symptoms, so I can give the trick cyclist a decent rundown of what's happening when I next see her.

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	stopthatgirl7 2009-07-02 03:08 pm UTC (link)
	Yargh. Here's to hoping it's temporary. (Reply to this) (Thread)

megpie71
2009-07-03 12:59 am UTC (link)

Well, I'm not sure now whether it was the drugs (man!) or whether it was just something which would've happened anyway - the day I started the Edronax was the same day as the first day of my period, so I may just have been having a low-BP day anyway. Certainly I added an iron supplement to the mix yesterday, and didn't get anywhere near as dizzy as I had been, so I'm thinking it might have been just something to do with the normal quirks and foibles of my body rather than the addition of a new anti-depressant into the mix. We shall see how things go when I add the other half a tab on Sunday afternoon.

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