Weight: 166.6
Sooo, at 2:30 am I was Googling my medication side effects since it was now the second night that I couldn’t sleep AT ALL! I am right now functioning on maybe 2 hours of sleep per night and I am WIDE AWAKE. I couldn’t go to sleep right now if I tried. Guess what a side effect is of BOTH meds - yep, insomnia. Wonderful. Also, the Abilify has some severe side effects and I have basically all of them. Awesome. I have a call into my doctor. Of course I’ve stopped taking that one, however it’s only a once a day dosage anyway and I didn’t discover how badly I was reacting until after I’d taken last night’s pill. I’m not doing a whole lot better on the Wellbutrin XL AND I discovered something that my doc should have asked me about. I have a stroke risk factor for Wellbutrin and she didn’t ask me any of the screening questions. NOT HAPPY!! I should probably not me on this med, especially since my dosage is supposed to increase today.
The good news is that I am functioning slightly more. I’m getting up and exercising (40 minutes on the elliptical this morning before running out the door to get my son to school, he has to be there at 7am on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which is crazy!) Showering, dressing in clean clothes (hey, this is a big one for me. It’s been bad the past few weeks and laundry had fallen low on the priority list. I got all my laundry done over the weekend… with a lot of help from my oldest) putting on make-up and doing my hair, putting in earrings. Just trying to feel more like my old self. I feel like I might actually care just a little bit. And that gives me hope.
Thanks for all the positive comments and hugs. You all have NO IDEA how much they mean to me. You all are the only support system I have. I depend on all of you. Thank you.
Posted on February 9th, 2010 by firefly
Filed under: daily blathering
Definitely get back to that doctor and ask some tough questions! She needs to answer for why she didn’t prescreen you!
I hope it improves soon though and way to go on the exercise! You can do it
Hang in there, okay? I’m thinking of you!
OMG that’s scary! I finally changed doctors cuz of how terrible my last one was!
Glad you figured it out at least- I hope you get things straightened out.
How frustrating to not be able to sleep. Make sure you ask a ton of questions when you head back to the doctor. Hopefully you can get some sleep soon.
good God it’s time you started feeling better! And I’m learning more and more not to trust doctors. Not good that we have to do all this research on our own. :: sigh :: Hope things improve soon. :: hugs ::
I had a horrible experience on Wellbutrin several years ago. I am prone to anxiety and it totally pushed me over the edge. My doctor took me off of it and recommended Buspar (if I remember correctly), but I was too afraid to take anything else. I hope you have better luck than I did!
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