#medicaton

[erna123things]

Physical therapy can help you control the pain instead of needing medicine to live life pain-free. Optimal PT can help you find relief!

[mmossyy]

tw mental illness and meds

I'm having a dumb episode bc I've screwed up my meds over the holidays and don't have the right anxiety meds but I'm taking an Adderall sub for the depression plus I drank coffee bc it's comforting but we don't have decaf anymore so I'm having a lot more anxiety than I'm used to. It's still a v familiar feeling. I don't build up a mental panic but my body gets scared, my chest tightens and my stomach feel a little sick, breathing is sharper, shallow. I can deal with it though. I felt that almost constantly in high school. I can fall back into that being my new norm.

But the fucking depression. Dudes. Why. is it so. much. worse. When I started meds I thought it was all anxiety but the more I talk w my psych the more it seems like the anxiety was just a sideffect of the much more problematic depression. The depressed lable scares me. Being chronically sad scares me. At least the anxiety is stimulating, I did stuff out of fear and discomfort lol. But when the hits Jesus it's like I'm appathetic about everything I know I need to be invested in, and the 1% of emotion my brain computes is selfpity; I'm sad that I don't care.

[narukyuu]

Any advice on getting yourself to take your medications?

I got two types of meds, both I need to take in the morning, one half an hour before I eat and the other after I eat.

I'm really... not so good at taking meds. in fact I am pretty terrible and tend to “forget” (which is not the right word, I don’t really forget and I know I need to take it, but I don’t)

and this is shitty on so many levels and I feel guilty and hate myself for not takng the meds but that doesn’t help.

anyone have the same problem? is there any advice u can give me on keeping my meds schedule going on?

[thapashekhar]

(via Not Tablets or Capsules But food and drinks to Slay your Anxiety)

a new study shows that people with generalized anxiety disorder unconsciously label harmless things as threats, which may serve to further their anxiety.

[voicesofthewind]

Has anyone here been on fluoxetine ('prozac') before? Did you get any of the bad side effects?

[mando-cyare]

So my insurance still hasn’t unfucked itself so my medicine is $267 for a months worth and I can’t afford it with the check I just got so I’m gonna be without one of my medications for TWO WEEKS!  FUN TIMES!!

And without the $267 dollar stuff, my other meds make me sleepy fml

[candykeyblade]

wow.

I’m already feeling way better. People aren’t kidding about Effexor having a shitty discontinuation syndrome.

I hate being this reliant on something that has this many side-effects but eh. My depression is far more dangerous than a slightly elevated heart rate. The headaches are under control, and tbh I’ll probably have dizziness/vertigo problems no matter what medication I take cuz I’m already prone to that stuff.

[zethry]

My neurologist gave me a new med to help give me energy to combat my daily EDS. It's amphetamine salts. Basically the generic of adderall. I Am very jittery. Still sleepy but I can feel the energy flowing through me. I feel like someone plugged me into an outlet and I now have electricity for blood. The only downside is the nausea that makes me not wanna get out of bed. Hopefully, after a few days, that will go away.