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Okay, been through more than I should have been through lately, but now I am diagnosed as manic-depressive and I have been prescribed lithium. I am going to have fuuuuuuuuuuun with this...

~ver

verilon wrote:Okay, been through more than I should have been through lately, but now I am diagnosed as manic-depressive and I have been prescribed lithium. I am going to have fuuuuuuuuuuun with this...

~ver

You know how to never get diagnosed with mental illness? Don't go see a shrink!

Anyway, what's lithium do? Make you happy?

Ouch...so how bad is it?

Not the maniac depressive(not going to pry)...but the medication.

Yeh i always wondered what anti depressants are actually like, frequently being depressed myself.

::makes a battery out of verilon::

Hope you manage to get through this.

Lithium is not an anti-depressant, it's a mood stabilizer.

Any side effects? Is it going to keep you up all night?

Mark S wrote:Any side effects? Is it going to keep you up all night?

Err.. dunno yet, but we'll see. Going to get the scrip filled on Tuesday. The thing I'm *least* looking for is the blood tests every month.. [shudders]

~ver

You're not manic-depressive, you simply have a chemical imbalance!

verilon wrote: Err.. dunno yet, but we'll see. Going to get the scrip filled on Tuesday. The thing I'm *least* looking for is the blood tests every month.. [shudders]

~ver

Urgh...blood tests....needles...*shudder*

Ghost Rider wrote:

verilon wrote: Err.. dunno yet, but we'll see. Going to get the scrip filled on Tuesday. The thing I'm *least* looking for is the blood tests every month.. [shudders]

~ver

Urgh...blood tests....needles...*shudder*

Yeah.. I have to get blood tests monthly at first to check my thyroid and kidneys, and after that I forget how often.. but we'll worry about that then. At least the place I'm getting it done at, the nurse doesn't make it hurt! And you guys would think she's hot, too.

~ver

verilon wrote:
Yeah.. I have to get blood tests monthly at first to check my thyroid and kidneys, and after that I forget how often.. but we'll worry about that then. At least the place I'm getting it done at, the nurse doesn't make it hurt! And you guys would think she's hot, too.

~ver

Well that's at least a good thing .

Ghost Rider wrote:

verilon wrote:
Yeah.. I have to get blood tests monthly at first to check my thyroid and kidneys, and after that I forget how often.. but we'll worry about that then. At least the place I'm getting it done at, the nurse doesn't make it hurt! And you guys would think she's hot, too.

~ver

Well that's at least a good thing .

Which part?

~ver

Ugh... needles, cant cope with needles... standard injury I can cope with, my blood out of my body as a natural result of injury, I can cope with, surgery I can cope with. Doctors sticking needles in my arm and putting anything in or out, and I'm on the point of fainting, I'm with you on this one Verilion, blood stays in arm thank you very much.

Had a recurring kidney infection a while back, if it happens again, they haul my ass of to hospital and put a radioactive tracer in my blood stream, I think the reason I got better from that infection was because the rest of me was too worried about the tracer injection to be doing with real illnes.


Hope this depressive thing sorts itself out, I'm sure it will. But on a lighter note, stay away from water and acid, for your own safety

Just look at it that way: better to know what problem/illness you have, than to stay uninformed.

THat's why I'm a sucker for doctors

Rubbish! I'll stick my fingers in my ears and act surprised when it kills me!

verilon wrote:Okay, been through more than I should have been through lately, but now I am diagnosed as manic-depressive and I have been prescribed lithium. I am going to have fuuuuuuuuuuun with this...

~ver

Should I PM you?

Ah, nevermind, you're on AIM..

kojikun wrote:::makes a battery out of verilon::

LOL

*Hacks the Matrix and frees verilon*

Watch out for Agents, Ver. Hope you get better

Sorry to hear that, babydoll. *hugs* Hopefully the lithium will do some good.

Oh, and *pokes you back just for the heck of it* since AIM shut down for me again.

Poor verilon! One thing experience has taught me, needles get far less scary with time. Hang in there, you're gonna be fine.

Rye wrote:Yeh i always wondered what anti depressants are actually like, frequently being depressed myself.

I dont like the ones I was on. first off, they made me really, really, high. my net name became talen-kite. I dont remember any of my convos, but people tell me I was very odd.

it also made me smile, hours on end, as I walked through the halls.

>_<

that said, verilon, hugs for you.

Anti-depressants = FECKING EVIL. End of story. I was on 10 mg of Celexa once, and it made me smile no-stop. Not being a natural smiler, it made me feel kinda weird...

~ver

Hello, nurse!

FOr what it's worth ver, a friend of mine in HS was prescribed lithium, and it really changed his life for the better. It took awhile to get the dosage right, and yeah, a lot of it sucked for him (blood tests, friends that weren't really friends after all), but overall his life improved since he could devote his energy to things other than his emotional state.

From one emotionally volatile maniac to another, cheers, and I'm sending some good juju your way in the form of happy thoughts

verilon wrote:Anti-depressants = FECKING EVIL. End of story. I was on 10 mg of Celexa once, and it made me smile no-stop. Not being a natural smiler, it made me feel kinda weird...

~ver

yeah, thats what I was on. I think I was on twice that, tho. with trazadone and zyprexa, it added up to 120.5 mgs or so daily. >_<