Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Health plan
My head hurts...a lot. I stopped taking my drugs between Christmas and New Year's. Except for my stomach one. I even stopped taking Prevacid, but I have been having really bad heartburn lately, so I think I'll bring that one back. It was just an experiment. And I've been mostly ok until today. But this headache could be because I really screwed up my sleep schedule by staying out until after 5 Monday morning. Or something else. Or maybe I shouldn't have stopped taking my drugs. I just hate the idea of having to spend $120 a month on drugs indefinitely. None of the dudes ever said anything about me stopping, or tapering or anything. So I made an executive decision about my body. Let's wait and see if it was ill-advised. One pretty bad headache will not stop me in my tracks, so I'll wait at least another month (I think). So I have started crying when other people cry (even people on TV, but this was perfectly normal for me before-I was always very empathetic), so what? I was used to it once, I can get used to it again. When I was in high school, I don't think there was a single person who had a class with me my sophomore year who hadn't seen me cry. No crying at work so far. Awesome.
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Well, I cry at work a lot. May not be a good, thing, but I can't help it. But you do know that it takes a while for things so get out of your body after taking them for a long time. So you may feel OK for a while until the drug levels drop below a certain level. Not that I don't agree that you should make your own decisions about your body. I do the same thing, but I also don't want you to have to suffer with migraines or anything else. Have your doctors told you anything about cheaper drugs? Like Prilosec or fioricet? Sorry, didn't meant to go on so long. I quit taking my birth control recently after being nauseated for 3 months. And it was expensive...
Personally, I think hormonal birth control is the devil. I could say the same thing about a lot of other drugs, too. I don't blame you. Do whatever makes you feel best physically and mentally!
Well, I preferred it to the messier methods (that's what I call them), but I needed something for other reasons that I won't go into because I am sure Mark reads this and I don't want to insult his sensibilities. So while I agree that if you feel better or the same off the medications you shouldn't take them, I think that if you start feeling crappy all the time, maybe you should. Although, I think the crying is OK. It always makes me feel better.
Yeah, I know that about the drugs, although I honestly expected something to happen before now. It's been three weeks and the only thing is I now have emotions again. I haven't had any of those in a few years. And no, nothing about any cheaper drugs-that would be too helpful. I'm just waiting to see what my body is going to do.
Emotions are our friends!
I don't really know why i typed that...
Yeah, I'm realizing that I really missed them. Even the not so great ones.
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