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Dec. 16th, 2004 11:04 amRight now, I'm dealing with allergies/cold/whatever and not feeling all there.
So if I start to get seriously grumpy or seem disjointed - don't mind me. I'm either trying to figure out what the hell my seizure meds are doing to me, or just getting tired of blowing my nose for the 900,000,000,000th time this morning.
As for the seizure meds ... I probably mentioned that I went to the neurologist for the first time in entirely too long, and was put back onto Tegretol - a medication I'd been off for about 6 months, even though I was on it for over 10 years previously. (Yeah, it turns out that Zonegran is mainly a secondary drug - not a primary one. But it did something that Tegretol never could ... kept me seizure-free for over 6 months.)
Silly me, I started taking the Tegretol, as prescribed (one pill in the morning, one in the afternoon, two at night) - only to end up with some really bad side effects. Namely, oversleeping and daytime drowsiness - as well as the occasional auras and "out of body" feeling. When I called the doctor about it, he told me to go down to two pills a day for a week or two, then if I could tolerate that, increase it to three, until I was back up to the prescribed dosage.
Well, I'm on the two per day - and still oversleeping. Drowsiness isn't as bad, and the only thing that kept me from sleeping until 7:30 this morning was the fact that I couldn't breathe for crap - so staying in a half-wake state until I finally got out of bed this morning was my only saving grace. And did I mention that I was in bed at 9 p.m. last night? Yeah ... I'm getting ancient here. :-/
On the "bitch bites bitch" front, my foot is healing rather well. Still sore - mainly from tissue trauma - but the wounds are looking much, much better. The stiffness is starting to go away, which is definitely good, and as for Nurse Rat Shit at the 24 Hour Line ... in the words of Teresa Heinz Kerry, "Shove it".
So if I start to get seriously grumpy or seem disjointed - don't mind me. I'm either trying to figure out what the hell my seizure meds are doing to me, or just getting tired of blowing my nose for the 900,000,000,000th time this morning.
As for the seizure meds ... I probably mentioned that I went to the neurologist for the first time in entirely too long, and was put back onto Tegretol - a medication I'd been off for about 6 months, even though I was on it for over 10 years previously. (Yeah, it turns out that Zonegran is mainly a secondary drug - not a primary one. But it did something that Tegretol never could ... kept me seizure-free for over 6 months.)
Silly me, I started taking the Tegretol, as prescribed (one pill in the morning, one in the afternoon, two at night) - only to end up with some really bad side effects. Namely, oversleeping and daytime drowsiness - as well as the occasional auras and "out of body" feeling. When I called the doctor about it, he told me to go down to two pills a day for a week or two, then if I could tolerate that, increase it to three, until I was back up to the prescribed dosage.
Well, I'm on the two per day - and still oversleeping. Drowsiness isn't as bad, and the only thing that kept me from sleeping until 7:30 this morning was the fact that I couldn't breathe for crap - so staying in a half-wake state until I finally got out of bed this morning was my only saving grace. And did I mention that I was in bed at 9 p.m. last night? Yeah ... I'm getting ancient here. :-/
On the "bitch bites bitch" front, my foot is healing rather well. Still sore - mainly from tissue trauma - but the wounds are looking much, much better. The stiffness is starting to go away, which is definitely good, and as for Nurse Rat Shit at the 24 Hour Line ... in the words of Teresa Heinz Kerry, "Shove it".
