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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3930 on: January 14, 2013, 02:24:01 AM »
Yes, but they don't seem to have helped. I'm all over the fucking place.
Every once in awhile, when I first started taking Strattera, I felt that way.
I wondered on those occasions if a few empty capsules had made it into my batch.  :apondering:

I have had bottles of dexamphetamine like that. I wondered if they were just blank pills. I remember once I took 13 in a day when my regular dosage is meant to be 6. And I still didn't feel any effect. I was at uni trying to write and I couldn't concentrate no matter how hard I tried. I ended up just going home pretty annoyed.

Just took my afternoon pills. I don't have a pill box except for one I keep for a day's meds when I go out. I keep all my meds in a drawer in my room and pop them out as I need them.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3931 on: January 14, 2013, 05:30:44 PM »
Yes, I took min. I think.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3932 on: January 14, 2013, 06:15:03 PM »
  I just took an L-Lysine pill from the batch I bought tonight.  :headbang2:
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3933 on: January 14, 2013, 07:29:09 PM »
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3934 on: January 15, 2013, 03:26:37 AM »
No. Not taken anything as of yet. I got my meds very late yesterday, as I could only manage to get a last minute appointment, luckily just before the pharmacies closed, which meant I could take what should have been the morning dose of my meds yesterday evening, and double up on the oxycontin and chlormethiazole.

Haven't had anything yet, although since I've just eaten I can take my indomethacin (antiinflammatory, should always be taken with food, and preferably a slug of gaviscon to protect the stomach, as NSAIDs can do a number on the GI tract, and indomethacin is known to be a bugger for that; although I have had no trouble myself)

Unless one counts the transdermal scopolamine patch for my recent sickness that I put on yesterday, that'll last for another 4 days or so, and a couple of squirts of xylometazoline nasal decongestant spray. Haven't taken a morning dose of oxy yet, I don't need it in any great rush, at the moment, as doubling up on it late in the day, having had none in the morning due to my late appointment means its still working at full strength.  can take my time with thatl although I'll probably take it in a few minutes or so. I'm in no hip or knee pain, certainly not withdrawing from it, and still hardly able to keep my eyes open for more than about 5 seconds at a time, without nodding off into little micro-sleeps.

I do have a pretty sore neck and lower back though, so I will take the morning one anyway I think, plus a couple of muscle relaxers (tizanidine). Think my neck and shoulders are sore and stiff from having fallen asleep sat at the computer, using the keyboard for an impromptu pillow :autism:


Just took most them now; the indomethacin morning dose, morning OC, couple of antihistamines (fexofenadine), pantoprazole (proton pump inhibitor, blocks stomach acid secretion, helps protect one's innards from the NSAIDs I take for tendinitis in my knee), a couple of tizanidine tablets to ease the stiffness in my back and neck-the back of my neck was pretty bloody sore, and some clonidine, that I take to stop overloading from happening in the first place, or if it does,then to bring me out of it almost as soon as the pills dissolve under my tongue.

Only thing left is chlormethiazole, a sleeping pill/anticonvulsant, that I take to keep my myoclonus problem from bothering me.

Time to curl up in bed, have a smoke while I read the morning paper, then take a nap while I wait for the postman to bring my order of goodies :)
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3935 on: January 15, 2013, 03:49:10 AM »
Ah, time to get that L-Lysine. This morning I forgot, and then I already ate something. It is processed best in an empty stomach, apparently.
Face needs all the help it can get, with these weather conditions. But, it's doing OK.

And, I'm back on the Ritalin routine for over a week now. Skipped it completely during the holidays. I've then let the events dictate my behaviour.  :P
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3936 on: January 15, 2013, 01:16:21 PM »
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3937 on: January 16, 2013, 02:02:23 AM »
Yes. And I'm going to take that L-Lysine, too. Thanks, CBC! :thumbup:
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3938 on: January 16, 2013, 07:15:42 AM »
Too many pills.  Ugh, sick of eating pills all the time.  Possibly because some of them actively make me feel sick.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3939 on: January 16, 2013, 05:39:07 PM »
Forgot to take my Ritalin twice today, but, did have the most important of the three pills I'm supposed to take. The 4 pm one.

Did not forget the L-Lysine, nor the enzyme thingy that is supposed to help my skin even more.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3940 on: January 16, 2013, 06:27:47 PM »


What does the L-Lysine do?

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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3941 on: January 17, 2013, 01:06:38 PM »
Somehow it helps prevent cold sores, and some other inflammations. It is advised to people with rosacea too. I'm using it for the latter, but do not mind hardly ever having cold sores as a side-effect.
The other option for me would be long term oral antibiotics, the topical antibiotic ointment isn't doing any good for me any more, it now triggers my face to inflame even more. L-Lysine does more for my face than the ointment ever did. It can't prevent my face from looking crap due to the frosty weather though. But, as long as it is not aching, I can live with that.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3942 on: January 19, 2013, 12:27:20 AM »
Increase of fluoxetine today, to double of what I was taking before.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3943 on: January 19, 2013, 01:39:09 AM »
Just the crazy meds.

Oops. Almost forgot the eye drops.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3944 on: January 19, 2013, 02:01:49 AM »
Yes. And I'm going to take that L-Lysine, too. Thanks, CBC! :thumbup:

  You are welcome!  I take mine every day and it seems to work.  :)
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