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Ok, I had my appointment today with the new guy, he's certified in both Psychiatry and Neurology. It was as I figured, I'm atypical-either Depressive or Bi-Polar NOS it didn't really matter. He said I have what used to be diagnosed as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and is an atypical depression. He upped my Neurontin to 2400 (he said that at the lower dosages you just get the side effects and that dosage can go up to 6000 a day which I didn't know). He said that I needed something to raise my level of Noraepinephrine and changed my Prozac (which he said was near it's 3 year limit for working) to Pristiq. I had had problems with Effexor, but he said with Neurontin to balence it that this should do what we want. He also changed my Provigil to Nuvigil which is a longer lasting version of the med. I think those were the main changes and something related to B12.
Here's hoping these changes get me more awake, let alone energetic.
Also, Monday my Pain Dr said the magic Fibromyalga word and added Lyrica to my Neurontin.
I guess I really don't care what they call anything, if they can just get me feeling better. But really, they could have done CFS and FM 8-10 years ago. I can see them not catching the Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, it is fairly obscure-but it answered so many questions they hadn't been able to.
I would love to be healthy; or at the least some energy and less pain. I'd also love to get a hand on the various chronic issues that have come up; I've always credited much of the weight gain to too little energy and pain and the weight is interrelated to the thyroid, low HDL (39), high LDL (111), prediabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, sleep apnea, and who knows what else.
I have seen the issues my mother and grandmother went through and would like to have friskiness into my 90's like my Aunt Mable as opposed to diabetic neuropathy and cortical loss that left my mom immobile in her late 70's and my grandmother's artereosclerosis took her mind in her late 80's and she lived till 92 or so. But then again at my age my father had had a brain tumor that the treatment for left him bedfast for the next 30 years of his life: he could walk but had tunnel vision and would pass out and drop without warning.
I will hope and try for better health; but try to be true to what both my parents taught me. Be thankful for what you do have and enjoy life. When asked how he is, my brother answers with 'above ground' and is happy.
Here's hoping these changes get me more awake, let alone energetic.
Also, Monday my Pain Dr said the magic Fibromyalga word and added Lyrica to my Neurontin.
I guess I really don't care what they call anything, if they can just get me feeling better. But really, they could have done CFS and FM 8-10 years ago. I can see them not catching the Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, it is fairly obscure-but it answered so many questions they hadn't been able to.
I would love to be healthy; or at the least some energy and less pain. I'd also love to get a hand on the various chronic issues that have come up; I've always credited much of the weight gain to too little energy and pain and the weight is interrelated to the thyroid, low HDL (39), high LDL (111), prediabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, sleep apnea, and who knows what else.
I have seen the issues my mother and grandmother went through and would like to have friskiness into my 90's like my Aunt Mable as opposed to diabetic neuropathy and cortical loss that left my mom immobile in her late 70's and my grandmother's artereosclerosis took her mind in her late 80's and she lived till 92 or so. But then again at my age my father had had a brain tumor that the treatment for left him bedfast for the next 30 years of his life: he could walk but had tunnel vision and would pass out and drop without warning.
I will hope and try for better health; but try to be true to what both my parents taught me. Be thankful for what you do have and enjoy life. When asked how he is, my brother answers with 'above ground' and is happy.