Hey really crazy people! You may like this.

[tnmisery]

http://www.crazymeds.us/

An actual site called CRAZY MEDS. I am happy. This sentence makes me happy:

'If you'd rather live in the 18th century and trust your mental health to the herbal recommendations made by a patchouli-drenched clerk with a lip ring working in some vitamin shop, then this site is not for you."
The maintainer

Comments

[pandora_nervosa]

Bookmarked with much accompanying glee.

Where do you find this stuff? I'm on so much crap right now (Depakote, Cymbalta, Remeron, Xanax, Luvox, Lunesta, Abilify) and that doesn't even touch my Crohn's meds. I'm very interested in reading up on what others have to say.

You so rock, sister!

i love talkin' meds - TL;DR

[tnmisery]

Holy fuck, that's a load of meds.
Remeron AND Lunesta? Those would have me on MY ASS. I ask about Remeron on the advice of a friend, but my doc wouldn't prescribe. The weight gain thing and he knows I'm all with the crazy eating disorder. Eating more = ME UNHAPPY AND OBSESSIVE.

I found the link because I think my Lamictal isn't working anymore. I currently have two moods. Depressed and REALLY GODDAMN DEPRESSED. Not really stabilizing the old mood, huh? I was checking out Trileptal as an alternative and BOOM! HELLO CRAZY MEDS!

Sometimes I think my docs have NO FUCKING CLUE where I'm coming from when I describe my crazy. Or they see so many crazy fuckers they're desensitized and just don't give a fuck anymore. Playing mad scientist with my brain because some pharma company has a new, shiny drugThe people that actually TAKE THIS SHIT? Have to put up with the side effects, years of trial and error and talk about what combos of meds work for them? I guess I feel more prepared to engage my doc with some "actual person with

Re: i love talkin' meds - TL;DR

[pandora_nervosa]

Now I see a psych doctor and a separate doc that dispenses my meds, but they get together about it before hand so they are in cahoots with each other

[txvoodoo]

I'm on NOTHING right now, but I bookmarked.

I'm on NOTHING because I'm on OTHER SHIT for everything else. And I'm afraid of interactions. It's bad enough that my bod is eating me from the inside out.

However, my brain? still crazy

btw, weight loss is at 36 lbs now. 9 down since Nov 5. I was able to pull on size 16 pants. At this rate, by Feb, I'll be a size 10 or smaller

[tnmisery]

You're shrinking before your own eyes and you've GOT TO BE tired all the time. Are you? I've only lost 15, but since I did it in a month, I've got that weird-ass gaunt face that makes me look sick. WTF.

I don't feel good at all about you being without some crazy meds, because I don't think you HAVE to be. There's so many options and there's gotta be SOMETHING that isn't going to interact. And hell, I'd say now is especially the time for something to help you, because your situation is fucked up for the long haul. God.
Know why I'm researching? Because I don't trust my docs to know the interactions. Like the Trileptal I'm willing to try? Can cause a serious drop in sodium, but with careful monitoring, it won't. That's pretty much the only risk and no other serious side effects. Well, death causing anyway. ;) The Lamictal I do take, ON THE OTHER FUCKING HAND, interacts with EVERYTHING. The joke on the site is that it interacts with meds you even think about taking and they're not wrong

[txvoodoo]

Yeah, I'm damned tired.

I think I just got...sick of being on so many meds. Every damned one had all these side effects, and they were all making me crazy.

It's kind of amazing that I'm NOT more depressed. Maybe I'm just too weak to be depressed? ;)

[tnmisery]

Yes, the starvation. You're way too fucking hungry to be depressed. PHHHHT. I'ma rip my hair on your behalf.
Really, when I've got a BIG problem that ISN'T brain related? I focus on that SO HARD that the fact I'm completely insane gets pushed aside. Then the problem I get is that when there's a lull in the BAD situation? I get MOAR CRAZY X 40 ZILLION.

I hate my meds. Like every other good nutjob, I got so low I was considering just quitting them all since they weren't helping. I'm really glad I didn't do that. Heh.

That is so the worst part for me: making peace with the side effects. I GET SO PISSED when I can't produce the word I want or have night sweats or can't fucking concentrate long enough to read like I LOVE LOVE LOVE to do. HAAAATE. I'm a natural born reader and now I can't force my brain to absorb a book? Man, I can't even express in words how upset that makes me.
I just have to remember that if I quit, I'll end up dead or possibly having to live with my mother. Doesn't help me like it, but those are such bad

[sockmonkeyhere]

~Dee, dee dee dee dee...~ ...my cat takes Valium.

MY CAT. XD

See, as he's gotten older, he's begun to develop some neurological problems that are probably a result of the spinal injury that crippled him for two weeks in his kittenhood when a tomcat bit his back. A couple of months ago he started licking and chewing at his skin quite a bit, to the point that it was becoming raw in places. He'd picked up a few fleas outside, so I tried a stronger flea-killer on him, thinking that maybe he'd just become allergic to flea bites. But as time passed and there were no longer any fleas on him and he still licked and chewed, I decided it must be something else

[tnmisery]

Only you Socky. Probability high for me, but definitely you. :D

Damn it, Ginger Kitty needs to go to the vet. My ex-vet tech friend says she's probably ALLERGIC to flea bites and that's why she's one big fucking scab from all the scratching. I keep the fleas off best I can and the other two girls don't do this shit. I guess the scabs itch and she NEVER STOPS DIGGING. So, shot of Cortisone.
Hell, maybe some Valium for her, too, until these damn scabs heal. VET BILLS! **shakes fists to heavens**

[sockmonkeyhere]

Timmy loves his Valium. He is mucho mellow now.

[tnmisery]

**note to self: Advantage**
I bought that damn expensive Frontline last time? NEVER AGAIN. I thought about offering to blow the vet in trade instead of paying all that money. Getting it between Fat Girl's shoulder blades? I wish I had one of those chainmail shark suits and a tranq gun.
Ginger is pitiful right now. She is COVERED head to toe with scabs. I'm the worst kitty mommy in the universe and should be dragged behind the shed.

AWWWWWWWWWW! I DIE. Mr. Foofy Stoned Kitty!!! HE TOTALLY LOOKS STONED. AHAHAHAHAAA. His little eyes. They're all, "Bzuh?..wha..??...???" I LOVE THAT PIC TO PIECES.

[sockmonkeyhere]

Bwaaahahahahaha, I just took a peek at that website -- the ads for the shirts are as funny as the shirts themselves!

[tnmisery]

See why I like that site? I get so fucking SICK AND TIRED of reading the same old pharma company disclaimer/precaution BULLSHIT, and to find a site with a sense of humor?

THAT IS LOVE.

Especially since most of us crazy people ACTUALLY DO HAVE a functioning sense of humor left in our crazy-addled brains.
Some people would probably be OFFENDED by the site and the shirts, since mental illness is SRS BZNS NOT FUNNY. Yeah, those people suck. I'll take laughing over boredom and woe every time.

[sockmonkeyhere]

Absolutely! Remember that actress -- can't think of her name -- who guest-starred on The Facts of Life years ago (yes, I watched that show. Shut up.) and had real-life cerebral palsy? She had a stand-up comedy routine, too, and in it she mentioned that many C.P. patients got nasty looks from people who thought they were drunk because of their slurred speech and wobbly body movements, so they wore T-shirts that said "I'm not drunk, I just have cerebral palsy." She said SHE had a T-shirt that said "I don't have cerebral palsy, I'm just drunk."

[tnmisery]

Man, you KNOW I watched The Facts of Life. And NOW, thanks to YOU, I'm singing the song in my head. MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP! :D

Haaa, say it with shirts. One of the reasons I love graphic tees? People get advance warning that I AIN'T QUITE RIGHT IN THE HEAD. If they get their panties in a twist about my shirt, then they can avoid me and save themselves the trouble of hearing MUCH CRAZIER THINGS coming out of my mouth.
I described my overall style as "Stay Away From Me Chic" the other day. Heee.