some day i'll be dead, at any rate
last sunday i started taking b2 and folic acid supplements on GP's advice. since then i have become more grumpy. (how is this possible? asks the world. and yet.) not irritable or angry or anxious, just... grumpy. i am not experiencing any concomitant depression and i'm not pre-menstrual. the other distressing thing is an increase in aphasia symptoms, namely a new difficulty in articulating concepts that require more than a single sentence. the good thing is that, since the only person i really talk to in any meaningful way on daily basis is mr tree, this hasn't happened at work. but three times now i've tried to explain something, stopped, tried again, stopped, maybe tried again, and then just given up speaking at that point because i literally cannot make my brain produce language in a logical way. that part is new and particularly distressing. always before, even if i used the wrong words or backwards syntax, the ideas were apparent. but this new thing is just a complete inability to construct a more complex thought to speech act.
given that i'm unable to consume almost all of the dietary sources of b2, it's likely that i was previously deficient. so if i'm now no longer deficient, it seems like these new symptoms are side effects of one or more of my medications that i hadn't been experiencing due to the deficiency? i'm betting the lamotrigine. so it's possible that if i just wait it out, things will calm down. if not i'll have to experiment again with lowering my dosage to see if that helps. because playing around with my brain meds is always the most fun thing ever.
i am a sheep bleating plaintively on a hillside. why can't anything be simple?
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given that i'm unable to consume almost all of the dietary sources of b2, it's likely that i was previously deficient. so if i'm now no longer deficient, it seems like these new symptoms are side effects of one or more of my medications that i hadn't been experiencing due to the deficiency? i'm betting the lamotrigine. so it's possible that if i just wait it out, things will calm down. if not i'll have to experiment again with lowering my dosage to see if that helps. because playing around with my brain meds is always the most fun thing ever.
i am a sheep bleating plaintively on a hillside. why can't anything be simple?
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This entry was originally posted at Dreamwidth. If you feel inclined, comment there.