i'm seriously about to lie down on the floor and take a nap at work...
My attempt at being more fun-loving, care-free and un-cranky for 2008 isn't off to the greatest start.
I wish I could go out and not feel annoyed by people. I used to just not give a crap. Now I get all irritated by everyone, and I always find something not to like about everyone. What is my problem? Why am I such a grinch these days?
And I just can't seem to relate. To anyone. Whenever I go out I always feel so internally alienated, if that makes sense. Like I'm in my own world. It's lonely within these walls. But I'm not sure why they're there.
But a lot of my problem is that I'm just cranky and irritable lately, and strangely enough, I found something out the other day. My friend told me, during a conversation we were having about teeth and mouth pain, that oftentimes, chronic toothaches and bad teeth cause drastic changes in mood. Like, it's an actual fact, I guess.
Around the beginning of October, this messed up tooth (molar) I have major problems with broke in half and half of my tooth was missing, and the rest of the tooth is pretty screwed up. I never went to get it checked out because it wasn't causing me THAT much pain and at the time I didn't have any benefits through work because I hadn't yet signed up for them.
Anyway, that tooth, along with my ever-slowly-growing wisdom teeth, have all been causing me major headaches for the past couple of years, and now that Megan mentioned it, I've noticed that since my tooth broke, I have been really moody and pissy which honestly is normally pretty unusual for me.
Needless to say I'm going to get my teeth fixed asap. I'm going to get that stupid tooth yanked, and I'm also getting all of my half-grown in, can't-decide-when-the-hell-they're-actually-going-to-stop-growing wisdom teeth all pulled out as well, just to avoid complications. And to possibly slow down these chronic headaches I've been getting for, oh, 5/6 years? Yeah that would be pretty cool.
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Lately I've been really into vitamins. Awhile ago I started take a B-100 complex because I heard a million great things about it, including the fact that it's supposed to level out your moods and give you boundless energy. To be honest, I haven't really noticed much of an effect after taking it for probably more than a month. Hm. I also always take a daily women's multivitamin, and these metaslim tablets that assist with natural weightloss (they aren't a magic pill but they help your body to burn fat more consistently if you are actively trying to lose weight).
Yesterday I went to pick up some St. John's Wort. Basically, with my depression/anxiety, it's not severe enough for me to really want to be on medication for it. I tried Wellbutrin a few years back when things were really bad, it worked for me and I found it to have very minimal side effects, but I couldn't shake that yucky feeling I have when I'm on prescription medication. So I stopped after a year. Obviously, bad idea, but I've heard that St. John's Wort is a smart solution for people whose depression isn't absolutely severe. I was always a little freaked out to try it because of things I'd heard, like it messes with hormonal birth control (off that now, so I'm not worried anymore), and it can cause men and women to be less fertile... which is the main thing I'm freaked about. I researched it though, and it seems to be a pretty rare side effect.
Anyway, I've heard great things about SJW so I'm trying it out to see if it works for me to help relieve some of my depression/anxiety problems at all. Maybe that will help all the stuff I was talking about at the beginning of this entry, too?
I also bought this Omega-3 fatty acid fish oil capsule stuff. The main factor I liked about the ones I bought is that along with being helpful with any weightloss efforts, they're also good for mental/emotional health, supposedly.
And lastly, I also have started this stuff by Swiss that is also another weightloss support, but it's in liquid form. There is a morning formula and an evening formula, and it's basically just a detoxing/cleansing/energy boosting system. It tastes like a dirty herb garden, but it works.
So there you have it, my list of medicine cabinet wonders. Ps. yeah, my pee is high-lighter yellow.
I'll make a post later tonight with photos from this weekend... which consisted of me, Dave, Thom, Jay, Jesse, Kevin and Sean getting shitty upstairs at CTO, band practice, dancing, and the Stag Shop ladies night out.
I wish I could go out and not feel annoyed by people. I used to just not give a crap. Now I get all irritated by everyone, and I always find something not to like about everyone. What is my problem? Why am I such a grinch these days?
And I just can't seem to relate. To anyone. Whenever I go out I always feel so internally alienated, if that makes sense. Like I'm in my own world. It's lonely within these walls. But I'm not sure why they're there.
But a lot of my problem is that I'm just cranky and irritable lately, and strangely enough, I found something out the other day. My friend told me, during a conversation we were having about teeth and mouth pain, that oftentimes, chronic toothaches and bad teeth cause drastic changes in mood. Like, it's an actual fact, I guess.
Around the beginning of October, this messed up tooth (molar) I have major problems with broke in half and half of my tooth was missing, and the rest of the tooth is pretty screwed up. I never went to get it checked out because it wasn't causing me THAT much pain and at the time I didn't have any benefits through work because I hadn't yet signed up for them.
Anyway, that tooth, along with my ever-slowly-growing wisdom teeth, have all been causing me major headaches for the past couple of years, and now that Megan mentioned it, I've noticed that since my tooth broke, I have been really moody and pissy which honestly is normally pretty unusual for me.
Needless to say I'm going to get my teeth fixed asap. I'm going to get that stupid tooth yanked, and I'm also getting all of my half-grown in, can't-decide-when-the-hell-they're-actually-going-to-stop-growing wisdom teeth all pulled out as well, just to avoid complications. And to possibly slow down these chronic headaches I've been getting for, oh, 5/6 years? Yeah that would be pretty cool.
***
Lately I've been really into vitamins. Awhile ago I started take a B-100 complex because I heard a million great things about it, including the fact that it's supposed to level out your moods and give you boundless energy. To be honest, I haven't really noticed much of an effect after taking it for probably more than a month. Hm. I also always take a daily women's multivitamin, and these metaslim tablets that assist with natural weightloss (they aren't a magic pill but they help your body to burn fat more consistently if you are actively trying to lose weight).
Yesterday I went to pick up some St. John's Wort. Basically, with my depression/anxiety, it's not severe enough for me to really want to be on medication for it. I tried Wellbutrin a few years back when things were really bad, it worked for me and I found it to have very minimal side effects, but I couldn't shake that yucky feeling I have when I'm on prescription medication. So I stopped after a year. Obviously, bad idea, but I've heard that St. John's Wort is a smart solution for people whose depression isn't absolutely severe. I was always a little freaked out to try it because of things I'd heard, like it messes with hormonal birth control (off that now, so I'm not worried anymore), and it can cause men and women to be less fertile... which is the main thing I'm freaked about. I researched it though, and it seems to be a pretty rare side effect.
Anyway, I've heard great things about SJW so I'm trying it out to see if it works for me to help relieve some of my depression/anxiety problems at all. Maybe that will help all the stuff I was talking about at the beginning of this entry, too?
I also bought this Omega-3 fatty acid fish oil capsule stuff. The main factor I liked about the ones I bought is that along with being helpful with any weightloss efforts, they're also good for mental/emotional health, supposedly.
And lastly, I also have started this stuff by Swiss that is also another weightloss support, but it's in liquid form. There is a morning formula and an evening formula, and it's basically just a detoxing/cleansing/energy boosting system. It tastes like a dirty herb garden, but it works.
So there you have it, my list of medicine cabinet wonders. Ps. yeah, my pee is high-lighter yellow.
I'll make a post later tonight with photos from this weekend... which consisted of me, Dave, Thom, Jay, Jesse, Kevin and Sean getting shitty upstairs at CTO, band practice, dancing, and the Stag Shop ladies night out.