OT: Please don't worry about me...

If seeing those things in your house makes you smile, doesnt that alone make your day seem better? As my mother used to say *in a Yiddish kind of accent* it couldnt hoit. :-) Diana, thinking now that her living room needs a dragon hanging in it....and some faere folk, and and and.....

Sure does. My dragon protects us and my Buddha has gathered all of our woes and is keeping them from up.

And the Ba qua mirror keeps Keith's mother away without calling first! :-) (That was such a rotten thing for me to say, wasn't it? She's welcome anytime, just call first.)

Nah, not so rotten, anything that gets a MIL to call first is a good thing. After I read your post I looked around my abode and realized that there isnt much here to make me smile.(aside from lots of posts here and the lovely things to look at) That must change. I need whimsy. Diana

I will write this down and take your advice. I think I have a piece of Amethyst in a drawer somewhere here. If I don't I have a string full of Amethyst chip beads. I shall wear them like garlic. :)

Harry

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Thank you so much. I will be sharing soon as to what happened and what's happening now. Maybe by the time I talk myself into doing it the main shock will be gone.

Harry

I know exactly what you mean. I am not on any meds and haven't been for many years. They tried just about everything there is to try and nothing worked. The closes we came to feeling ok was when they had me on Paxil and Ridalin. Not sure if I spelled those correctly. But I had problems with the Paxil so they took me off of them. The worst experience they had with me was with Prozac! That stuff sent me into a state of insanity and almost killed me. Anyway...

Harry

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Have you tried Wellbutrin? One of the side effects that it has and isn't mentioned is Homicidal tendencies. I was on it for 3 months and then had to go off really fast. lol

Yes.... I may or may not have had the same problem... I took it for 2 weeks and when I went to see my doc and he asked me how I felt and I told him... his words: "Stop taking them right now and throw the others in the trash. We will try something else." One month after they had the electrodes attached and gave ole' Harry a good jolt. LOL A lot happened in between that time frame, but I just skipped to the shocking part. LOL

Harry

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I can relate to the Prozac Harry. The cardio prescribed it for me because I was feeling low. He said things go wrong with operations when there is no confidence. I took one and woke up with screaming in my head. The next one I took the screaming was worse and the angina kicked in. DH took me to A&E at the hospital. The doctor I saw told me to keep taking them.

I went to my GP and she took them off me. She said I was not clinically depressed, just down and worrying about my health problems which was a natural thing. Personally I think stuff Prozac it was and is not for me. Shirley

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I had a horrible time with Wellbutrin, several meds in the same family as Paxil and Prozac, Effecsor, and others. I went cold-turkey on all of them about a year ago (which was a horror in itself). I swore off drugs and determined to do it all on my own... and maybe it would've worked if things had been more stable in my life, I'm not sure. But several months ago things were getting way too hard, and the doctor put me on Lexepro. I couldn't believe how well it has gone. I might not be completely "normal", but no hellish sideeffects.

I know meds work differently if you are bi-polar. I don't have that problem, just extreem anxiety and 'clinical' depression.

But I would definately say that my experience with lexepro matched with it's advertising.. it is a relatively side-effect-free one.

Marisa

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part. LOL

< I am going to check in on that one. Never heard of it and who knows... might be the miracle I am looking for? Being bi-polar is just one of the monsters I deal with and that's why everyone has had such a hard time with finding treatments for me. I will call someone and find out if this might work. Thanks.

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I am happy to hear you went to your GP and he knew to get you off them. The stuff works for millions, but there are also millions that can't take it.., and I am one of them. I understand the screaming in your head... mine was similar, and it might be best that I not comment any farther on it.

Harry

What about good old Lithium? Needs to be monitored, but still a great standard for Bi-Polar. Tuning down your highs is equally important as bumping up the lows.

Tina

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good jolt. LOL

shocking part. LOL

How outrageous to prescribe Prozac without specific need, and for an operation, without first ascertaining your reaction to it. For crying out loud. It's prescription only for a reason. I also has a very negative response to Prozac.

Tina

How about lithium, Harry? ~~ Sooz

------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links

Austin, as in PBS's Austin City Limits? I am so jealous, I'd move there in a heartbeat just to be able to go to their shows and music events if TX wasn't a community property state.

Great minds think alike! That was my suggestion too.

You doing OK? I love spring in Calif!

Tina

Not okay. Been not posting here because I am just exasperated with everything, too easily irritated, and I don't want to start hollering. Skipped the bead trunk show last night (it was 2 blocks away!) because I was too grouchy to face other humans.

I swore I wasn't going to say anything here on RCB, but now you asked. Haw haw haw haw! And I'm too grouchy not to answer. I swore, too, that the Pain wasn't going to kick my ass this winter, but it did. Not as bad as last year, but close.

Saw the doctor and they increased my meds by quite a bit......it's been about 2 weeks, and I don't see much difference. Next they increase one other med, then after that they suggested methadone. (there, I said it. Yeesh.)

I'm just waiting for the good weather to start. It's been a vile struggle. I have no patience right now for a lot of stuff. I don't like that about myself much, so I am staying low on the radar. It's awful, adn I try not to cry. So far so good...... ~~ Sooz

------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links

Jeez! What I was trying to say was: The Pain has been kicking my ass. It's making me so sad. It's ruining everything, the big booger! ~~ Sooz

------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links