The (not so old) Crocks Cafe -Part 2

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

LadyM, could you be gulping air down when you eat because you're anxious, more so because you've got the excitement (and worry) of your trip coming up?

Although I've had similar since starting the citalopram, despite being given lanzoprazole to try and for once in my life, take medication without discontinuing it due to puking up. Completely and utterly lost my appetite as well - which is a novelty for me.

Still soooo tired!!!! Ergh!!!! [faceplants into bed]

LadyMorticia

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

LadyM, could you be gulping air down when you eat because you're anxious, more so because you've got the excitement (and worry) of your trip coming up?

Although I've had similar since starting the citalopram, despite being given lanzoprazole to try and for once in my life, take medication without discontinuing it due to puking up. Completely and utterly lost my appetite as well - which is a novelty for me.

Still soooo tired!!!! Ergh!!!! [faceplants into bed]

I didn't think of that.:o

Well, I have an eating disorder so I'm sure that doesn't help either.

I'm also on meds so that could contribute to it too. With the antibiotics I'm on I have to take them with food and I'm not used to eating 4 times a day.:o

jodie114

[QUOTE=Jojo the Tightfisted;
Although I've had similar since starting the citalopram, despite being given lanzoprazole to try and for once in my life, take medication without discontinuing it due to puking up. Completely and utterly lost my appetite as well - which is a novelty for me.

think i quoted right-how are you getting on with the citalopram, my gp has recently given me this to help with my depression, but every time i take it i feel sooo spaced out, that i give up. Normal painkillers i can deal with, but these in particular are really affecting me.

LadyMorticia

jodie114 wrote: »

think i quoted right-how are you getting on with the citalopram, my gp has recently given me this to help with my depression, but every time i take it i feel sooo spaced out, that i give up. Normal painkillers i can deal with, but these in particular are really affecting me.

I know I'm not JoJo but I've been on Citalopram twice.

The spaced out feeling tends to be really common with some antidepressants. Do you take it in the morning? If so it might be better taking it at night. I have to do that with my Quetiapine as it makes me really drowsy and I can't function during the day properly if I take it in the morning (not that I can function properly anyway :rotfl:).

Usually the spaced out feeling doesn't last for long - maybe a week or two? I know it's horrible at the time but hopefully the good effects will outweigh the (hopefully temporary) spaceyness.

jodie114

Thanks, i think i will try that. i was told to take it in the morning, as i take amatryptiline (sp) at night, but i think i will try anyway - worst it can do is knock me out, and that would not be a bad thing atm!

LadyMorticia

jodie114 wrote: »

Thanks, i think i will try that. i was told to take it in the morning, as i take amatryptiline (sp) at night, but i think i will try anyway - worst it can do is knock me out, and that would not be a bad thing atm!

Maybe talk to your GP first, just to make sure.

My GP wouldn't prescribe me amitryptaline because she was worried about how "with it" I'd be.:o

jodie114

my gp is one of those that tends to dish out pills to help, rather than sort the problem, so i have been given both, and he recently decided to double the cito to 20mg twice a day as his response to me moaning that i cannot take it. - what with that, the amitryptiline and all the painkillers and diazepam etc, i honestly struggle to remember my name sometimes!
- oh, i guess i know, but i take it its the pills that also affect your long term memory? i got married 10 years ago, and for the life of me cannot remember anything, or anything about my son being born 7 years ago - it can be quite scary when you sit here and think about how much of your life seems to be missing

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

My GP advised me to change from mornings to night as I was even worse than useless during the day. But I do know someone who has to take them in the morning or they can't sleep at night. We're all awkward, here

Depression can play havoc with memory, as can other things going on at the time - I defy anyone to remember the time of a doctor's appt when they have 3 cats yelling for dinner at the same time as a child going on about what so-and-so said at school to someone else and how the next person along reacted, especially when one of the cats is coughing up a furball somewhere and you hope it isn't the clean washing pile, but you can't see him anywhere....


[thinks of taking antibiotics and instantly feels queasy _pale_] Me and antib's do not get on at all - if I'm not allergic to them, the couple left I can take make me feel really ill.


If you think about it, the cit. must be having an effect, or you wouldn't feel different, so I try and think of it being them starting to work. I definitely feel different to how I did 6 weeks ago.

Elle7

LadyMorticia wrote: »

I'm not sure. It has been happening for a while. I mean, I've always had some degree of bloating and stomach aches but I'm just noticing it more lately I think. I was told not to cut out gluten without a doctor's say so so I'm not sure if I should.
I've been to the doctors so many times lately that I don't really want to annoy her with anything else.=/

So many people I've spoken to have UTIs at the moment. I'm fighting off a kidney infection too but thankfully this second lot of antibiotics are working.

Glad the assessments went well.

Thank you. The doctors won't give me any more antibiotics, they told me there is blood in my urine and high protein (I think, I'm dreadful at remembering) and told me to go to A&E as they have no doctors at the moment and 'can't deal with me'. A&E has permanently long waiting times...I'm hoping it'll just go but I can see me being hospitalized, I was in for a week with the same thing nearly exactly a year ago

I've never been on Cit so I can't help there.

Got my first neurology appointment in a while. Very worried. It's times like now I wish I had someone to talk to about this type of thing...

I hope everyone is having a good day so far.

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Erme

NoahsPennilessMummy wrote: »

hello
not been on here for a very long time....usually on OS board;)
Feeling really crappy atm:o
lots of stress with my ASD son who has been found to have Pathological demand avoidance along with a few other difficulties.
We dont get much sleep and am exhausted.
Have had depression since post natal days and it is in the main well controlled but having flare up at the moment:o
Am leaving work next month to concentrate on DS but also because I can no longer tolerate the bullying of my workmates due mainly to the fact that I have to take time off sometimes with my son.
I cant cope with going into work so off sick this week and seeing GP on Weds with the hope she will give me a sicknote for a few weeks.
I tried going in last week but had to hide in the toilets as was tearful and couldnt face sorting patients out.
It will be the end of soooooo much stress for me when I have finished work.
of course being paranoid and vunerable atm I am already imagining what they are saying about me today:(

Och hugs hun...you seem to have faith (judging by your name) which is very precious and worth a million jobs......am praying for you...and HUGS

Elle7 wrote: »

I see a psychologist and he's fab. If it's just for an assessment they might not keep you on anyways. Not least if you're not keen.

But negatives aside take any help they offer cos lots of folk would LOVE to have a psychologist and even if that means going on a waiting list take it. It could be the LBM or give you the LBM you need to make big steps in your recovery..

E

Thanks for your reply. Looks like I should get used to being assessed, I've got a council assessment tomorrow, then Social Services and finally the psychologist assessment. I'm really nervous...I guess I have to man up for this!

Think I'm having an odd side effect to some medication...keep feeling freezing, but I'll be sweating buckets, literally Usually leaves me looking pretty drained, with spots of rashes and feeling rubbish. Odd thing is, I haven't changed any meds recently.

Feeling very lonely. Without my computer, I'd be the most isolated person ever.

I hope everyone had a good weekend, and isn't suffering too much. I didn't do much for mine...

Noahs Mummy- Please try not to worry about your colleagues. If they are saying anything, they aren't worth thinking about. Taking time off for your son is essential, it's not like your flying off for weekly holidays!

I hope your doctor signs you off, and your flare ends soon. Hugs [/QUOTE]

Och yeah you are going to have to man up and get on with but treat yourself afterwards if you can afford it ...hugs

soolin wrote: »

Silly question I know, but does anyone else get any form of night terrors? I sleep exceptionally well, nothing wakes me but occasionally I wake up as I have a strange feeling and when I open my eyes and look round the room I see 'something' that makes me jump and I scream out in teror and often try and run from the room or at least get away from 'it'.

The panic lasts a few seconds and then my logical brain tells me I am hallucinating and I recheck and the thing has gone so I can get back into bed and go to sleep quite easily. However my poor OH who sleeps poorly then lays awake for the rest of the night in a state of panic.

I've had this since I was younger and my GPs have always said it is a side effect of migraines, but I am getting less and less migraines now but still get th enight terrors. I am trying to work out what triggers them and I suspect that taking certain pain killers 'might' just be a trigger but I'm not entirely sure it fits the pattern.

As I said it is a silly question and doesn't bother me too much but I am beginning to worry a great deal about my OH who really suffers and I can see his heart pounding afterwards (I really do scream and scream)

I get terrible nightmares. Used to just get them when unwell (sometimes I wouldn't go to bed all night due to them) but now get them all the time due to mirtazapine. The worst was when I woke up half the block screaming @ New Year....so embarrassing ......often scream in sleep.....praise God the neighbours are getting used to it (but then they've always just given me queer looks so why worry)....

JoJo should be grateful you've got DLA..I got mine reduced from high care and low mobility to middle care and low mobility some years ago...I got the same when I reapplied but indefinite...DLA is so hard to get...yeah often I can't feed self and the flat is squalid...but recovery is possible man..try not to get too angst about it. You'll probably find you get the same/similar entitlements as before and it's really not worth appealing cos you could get less..... Budget will be bashed by about £100 a month but sure you can adjust.. I just got a railcard with my DLA (which in a rural/semi rural area beats the bus often)

Hugs


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