Lovely Lottie, you gotta get back here because we miss you and need you! No one does perky punk (punky perk?) like you, babe, and that balances out all the crabby crone vibes from the old farts like me!
I am
so not qualified to talk to you about psychoactive drugs; from the experiences of various members of my family, it sounds like a very complicated and exacting balancing act to get those kinds of medications correctly adjusted. The only thing I can think of that might help (and this is completely a guess) is to establish some very firm routines about eating and exercise.
My thinking is that what and when you eat affects your body (and brain) chemistry, so in order to best be able to tell what a particular medication is doing, you need to keep the food stuff somewhat constant. In particular, it would seem like skipping meals and/or really binging could mess with the medications. Exercise also affects various chemical reactions, so having a pretty ironclad routine there would also hold one variable of the equation constant. So, crabby crone advice: pick an eating plan that is healthy, not stressful to prepare or follow and stick to it --- I think it being non-stressful might trump it being the best for weight loss, too. Do the same thing with exercise --- pick something that fits what time you have and that you at least sort of enjoy, even if it isn't the top toning routine, and stick with it.
Again, I am making this up as I go along, and while it
sounds like good sense, it might be completely bogus.
I do hope you get a chance to stop in and hang out, Lovely Lottie! We have really missed you around here!
and again...
