increasing mood stabilizer and still no sleep zombie

[stangshelly]

okay now i am getting a bit worried...on the 13th of june get my big bloodworkup done and get results on 23...going on now my 11 th injection and am really tired...they have me on geodon 80 mg. at hs but this med is completely metabolized by the liver...is this okay?? go for blood work at dr.s for fbs and lipids..already know my cholesterol is 220...i was diabetic when pregnant but am borderline now..why the worry about the sugar? i am retaining water weight lately..really sucks..still moody but better..just need to talk..going crazy at home and want to go back to work but no go by drs orders yet   he says job to stressful...so is tx..ugh..hope i didn't offend anyone  and if so i apologize...been off work now 3 months and can't take it...lonely road right now..thanks for lending an ear  happy trails..

[dog_lover]

I am not recommending for one minute that everyone on this board should have one or two dogs as a cure-all.  They require a great deal of attention and they can be demanding.  Puppies are like children, you have to puppy-proof your house and they require midnight trips to the yard and they need a lot of training.  What do you get?  Well, I don't have the words or the typing ability to outline all the benefits you get in return.  Simply, my dogs have been with me through all of this; they nuzzle when I cried, they listened to me when I was talking to myself wondering if I wanted to live or not and they cuddled with me after my wife was gone.  Our favorite thing was laying in spoons.
Love you all,
Dog_Lover

[can-do-man]

Glad your feeling better, Sorry don't have a dog. Sure about the no kid bit? Cause i have 2 and sometimes. Oh well if you change your mind there let me know.:) Take care now

[stangshelly]

DOGLOVER,CANDO,NYGIRL,LIONESS....ALL I WANT FOR MY BDAY WHICH IS BIG 40 ON THE 8TH OF JUNE IS ANOTHER DOG...I DECIDED AFTER MY OTHER 2 WERE GONE AND NOW I HAVE JUST THE ONE ITS DIFFERENT WHEN THERE ARE 2...SURE WOULD KEEP ME BUSY...HUBBY THINKS I AM NUTS AND PROBABLY AM BUT NO MORE KIDS..THATS A DEFINITE....
TO DOGLOVER SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT THE STRINGS OF BAD LUCK...LET ME ASSURE YOU ..YOU ARE NOT ALONE...I HAVE HAD ABOUT 5 YEARS OF IT...DIVORCE,REMARRIED,DAD DIED,LOST MY HOUSE,LOST MY 2 PUPS,MOVED,CHANGED JOBS,MOTHER SCREWED ME OUT OF DADS WILL,HUSBAND GOT A HEAD INJURY AND NO WORK FOR 3 YEARS AND HIS COGNITION LEVEL IS OF A 15 YEAR OLD ETC..SO KEEP YOUR CHIN UP AND LOVE YOUR DOGS...THERE IS NOTHING LIKE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE..PEACE AND KEEP SMILING...I DO FEEL MUCH BETTER AS OF LATE SO HERES TO BETTER DAYS AHEAD  THIS IS A WALK IN THE PARK COMPARED TO ALL ELSE...

[lionesss]

No wonder you are a dog lover!

I love my dog too 'cos he takes me for walks down to the creek.  Ir certainly clears the head (and the lungs) and watching him run around (as whippets certainly can) always gladdens my heart.

3 cheers for dogs

[dog_lover]

It's funny, nobody has ever asked me about this before.  I have two dogs currently, I have had up to four.  My old house, the one I lost in the divorce, had a yard that was almost an acre.  It was the perfect dog yard so I went to the Pound and got two more.  The two dogs I currently share my space with are both big babies.  They are both large mixed breeds one male and one female.  They are between six and eight years old.  I know you don't know my history but I went through a bunch of really horrible stuff in the last year-year and a half. Divorce, job loss, motorcycle accident and bankruptcy, bang bang bang.  Without being too dramatic I have to say that the only reason I'm still alive is those two faces.  Those two wonderful benevolent wonderful non-conditional dogs.  I love them with all my heart.
Dog_lover

[OnAPrettyPoison]

I have missed you!  When did you get high sugar?  I have been off line and decided I would never have time to read all the threads!  I am not sure I like having so many more threads and posts, my addled brain can't keep up.  I know that they watch your sugar during treatment, so maybe it will fix itself when you get done.

I am holding tough, some good and some bad days.  I have lots overtime coming up which I dread, but there is no avoiding it.

[lionesss]

What kind of dog do you have?

I am a doglover too.  I have a crazy whippet. 2 years old

[52TELE]

Get your hands on  a copy of James Michener's "Texas". Its 1100 pages of pure Ambien.

[can-do-man]

Hey girl, wonder where you been. My glucouse level has run slightly higher then normal for years. By family doctor was more worried about it then i was. Just like with the hep-c thing didn't much give it much thought. But the tx caused it to go much higher. After tx and watching what i eat might solve the problem. So far i'm lucky just have to take a pill a day.

I agree all these threads now make it to where you almost have to go thru the list just to keep up with a couple days. One day alone i counted 17 threads open. Makes it easy to miss somebodys question. Hope you don't over due it with the overtime. And at least have good days. You take care of yourself girl.

[NYgirl]

This is really a #%$@# of a disease.  It plays with our bodies our minds and our hearts and tries to one up us.  But remember...you have to fight it with your SOUL that inner part of YOU - that is the one thing it CANT beat!

I know exactly what its like to be so tired. Believe me most of us all do in one form or another. It's a battle but we CAN beat it, we can continue to fight it as long as we stick together and hold each other up.

There sure are days I don't even want to bother anymore = but then I think of everyone in here and say to myself wow what a great example i would be if I quit...so I swallow those stupid old pills and smile for the rest of the world even though inside...I'm sound asleep in my bed with my pillow and my teddy bear.

Seriously though when the anemia got me so drastically I had a little blanket and pillow and I went to sleep at my desk from 12 - 1 every day. Everyone else was at lunch but I was snoring away...and it felt good and I didn't care what a fool I looked like.

I made it THROUGH and that is all that matters.  At week 36 or 37 right now all I care about it keep on keepin on.


PS I take Ambien and it really really helps me to fall asleep. Oh yeah I do wake up on and off during the night to drink water cause of the cottonmouth and to go and pee and stuff but I am able to fall back to sleep.  It really helped me so very much.

[cuteus]

what kind of job do you have? If you are an air traffic comptroller I can see why the dr wants you home while on tx, but if staying home is driving you crazy and stressing you, perhaps work is the lesser of two evils?  I tried staying home while on tx and found it even worse for my sanity. If you can't make it to a paying job, perhaps a volunteer position will keep you distracted while on tx.
best of luck

[dog_lover]

Oops, I forgot something.  When I get well I'm going to travel.  If my younger dog is still with me I'm going to drive all around the country.  I want to see Vermont in the fall, I want to visit those places with beautiful names with horrible histories where the Civil War was fought.  I'd like to see the "South" in historic Atlanta and I want to see the Grand Canyon.  During this sojourn I would like to see if I want to live somewhere else aside from Portland, Oregon.  I kind of doubt it.  Once I temporarily find myself without a dog I want to go to Europe/Russia. In the meantime I spend a lot of time milling through atlases.  Planning a trip is half the fun so give this some thought, then plan a trip.  Hope this helps!

[dog_lover]

If I may be so bold as to recommend a couple of books that you might enjoy.  Long before I met "my little friend," the "Virus" I had a horrible break up with a woman I was going to marry. Coincidentally, this was about the same time I contracted Hep-C. I was horribly depressed and I couldn't sleep and was even drinking NyQuil to go to sleep at night,YUCK. I was in school then and asked a professor for a good "funny" book. It was then I was introduced to a wonderful book, Cervantes' Don Quixote.  The book was originally written in Spanish, in the sixteenth century and published as a number of separate adventures that came out in small magazines.  The book appears intimidating, it's pretty thick but it's very funny and does not require that you read the entire book to "get it," each chapter is another adventure.  Another great book is Tolstoy's War and Peace.  Everyone should read a Russian novel at least once.  This book centers around a family or Russian nobility and what happens to them when they fight Napoleon on his bid to take Moscow in 1812.  It's big but reads easily and is surprisingly enticing once you plow through the first few pages.  I just bought a telescope and the book, Astronomy for Dummies, thinking since I can't sleep I might as well be doing something constructive while I'm up.  I'm still learning how to set it up. I hope this helps you. I haven't started yet and I'm scared spitless.
Dog_Lover

[can-do-man]

Thats what were here for to lend a ear, you can borrow it just can't have it. Kinda use to having both ears. The non sleeping has been a big issue at times. So keep working on your doctor till you find something that helps. You say your going crazy huh. Guess you haven't read my posts? I had to go on meds for being diabetic. So keep an eye on your Glucose level. Wishing you the best and come here and vent anytime.