Wednesday, August 14, 2013

You're perfect to me

Well it's been two days since my blood tests came back (mostly still waiting on my thyroid test and antiphospholipid test but that one is unrelated) and yesterday I started Lithium. 300 mg twice a day. I thought I was getting once daily, it's hard enough to remember taking once a day, hopefully I can keep up with the twice a day. I haven't noticed anything yet, no side effects. But it can take weeks before you start feeling better when taking meds like this (or any anti-psychotic or antidepressant) so we will see in time how helpful it is. While I'm not feeling any effects yet from the Lithium, I am however going through bad withdrawal from my Cipralex. I weaned off of it slowly. Taking a month to go from 30mg to 5 and its been a week since I have had any, and I am getting all kinds of weirdness in my eyes, kind of like I did with Paxil (which is the WORST to wean off of). It's hard to explain, its kind of like my eyes focus normally, then almost like they zoom, sharpen and then go back to normal (think kind of like a camera) it ends up making me dizzy after it does it a few times in a couple minutes. I am hoping it doesn't last long.
I feel like I'm not on medication at the moment, mostly because my meds haven't kicked in yet. I am looking forward to feeling 'normal'. It's not the best time for it either. I have both boys home, Oliviers daycare is closed for a month and he is a difficult child a good part of the time, and its very hard and taxing. I'm hoping it gets easier over the next week or so, my dad is coming into town on Saturday so Olivier will get to spend extra time with him which will hopefully help me a little.
Right now though I am sitting on my bedroom floor, listening to Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, One Direction (no judging!) and a few others, while Olivier watches TéléToon and Cedric naps, with a diet pepsi and Ruby curling up to me, poor kitty feels neglected lately I think. Music and baking are the things right now that I think help keep me grounded, help my concentration and focus, and thankfully I have a lot of baking coming up in the next week. Maybe if you are lucky I'll post a few pictures.

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