Just a quick reassurance on psych stuff...
I mentioned it at one point in the flurry of posts in the past few days, but just to clarify, this is why I'm manic right now, and why I don't consider it a serious issue in the long run:
Insurance companies suck.
Or, in more detail, I got screwed on the transition from actual pharmacy to mail-order pharmacy for "maintenance meds". Not sure how the system considers it a maintenance med already when we've been changing dosages every three weeks still trying to get me stabilized entirely, but they do.
As a result, it would've cost some $280 to pick up my scrip when I needed it, and I had to buy about $20 worth of pills and drop from 900 mgs to 600 mgs per day until my new scrip comes in from the mail-order pharmacy, hopefully in the next day or two.
My GP sent in a scrip for 1200 mgs per day in 300 mg pills so that we can still shift my dosage up and down as we figure things out without having too many more hassles with the pharmacy trying to get a 90-day scrip changed each time. I'm just waiting for it to arrive. Twitchily.
So I'm not dismissing this (in case you were worried), there's simply a good explanation that's going to take several more days to fix. In the meantime, I'm avoiding the provigil like the plague to try not to make anything worse (it's a stimulant, and stimulant + mania = bad).
I suspect the libido surge is because we finally finished tapering me down off the Cymbalta entirely. I'm very happy about that part. Whooo-hooo, sexy-sexy-sex!
So, anyway, I know plenty of you are well-educated on psych issues, and since my posts are blaring "hey, look, uncontrolled mania going on over here", I didn't want you to worry that the mania was tricking me into not treating it or taking it seriously. It isn't, but shaking words out of my fingers is one of the best ways I've found to deal with the pressured speech and the emotional effects. I'm having massive insomnia problems, but otherwise this mania hasn't been particularly problematic, at least as long as no one hits one of my righteous rage triggers and sends me on a political firestorm in the meantime. Please don't do that. That's also why there aren't many linketies going on at the moment. I have my hands full with the inside of my own head and events in my personal life, and political stuff is likely to trigger rage reactions that'll send me off on crusades even though I need to focus on other things right now.
Insurance companies suck.
Or, in more detail, I got screwed on the transition from actual pharmacy to mail-order pharmacy for "maintenance meds". Not sure how the system considers it a maintenance med already when we've been changing dosages every three weeks still trying to get me stabilized entirely, but they do.
As a result, it would've cost some $280 to pick up my scrip when I needed it, and I had to buy about $20 worth of pills and drop from 900 mgs to 600 mgs per day until my new scrip comes in from the mail-order pharmacy, hopefully in the next day or two.
My GP sent in a scrip for 1200 mgs per day in 300 mg pills so that we can still shift my dosage up and down as we figure things out without having too many more hassles with the pharmacy trying to get a 90-day scrip changed each time. I'm just waiting for it to arrive. Twitchily.
So I'm not dismissing this (in case you were worried), there's simply a good explanation that's going to take several more days to fix. In the meantime, I'm avoiding the provigil like the plague to try not to make anything worse (it's a stimulant, and stimulant + mania = bad).
I suspect the libido surge is because we finally finished tapering me down off the Cymbalta entirely. I'm very happy about that part. Whooo-hooo, sexy-sexy-sex!
So, anyway, I know plenty of you are well-educated on psych issues, and since my posts are blaring "hey, look, uncontrolled mania going on over here", I didn't want you to worry that the mania was tricking me into not treating it or taking it seriously. It isn't, but shaking words out of my fingers is one of the best ways I've found to deal with the pressured speech and the emotional effects. I'm having massive insomnia problems, but otherwise this mania hasn't been particularly problematic, at least as long as no one hits one of my righteous rage triggers and sends me on a political firestorm in the meantime. Please don't do that. That's also why there aren't many linketies going on at the moment. I have my hands full with the inside of my own head and events in my personal life, and political stuff is likely to trigger rage reactions that'll send me off on crusades even though I need to focus on other things right now.