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The last time I saw my shrink, I asked if we could reduce my nightly dose of my mood stabiliser, Epilim, back to two pills from three. He suggested we try increasing my antidepressant instead. That's done nothing to address the problem which alarmed both [livejournal.com profile] outsdr and [livejournal.com profile] acelightning earlier this week: my nagging aphasia. Hell of a problem for a writer!

I've now confirmed from multiple reliable sources that memory and focus problems are common side effects of Epilim. It's doing its job of stabilising my mood, but what's the point of swapping one mental fog for another?!

So: balls to this. I'm going to step down the dose myself, back to two pills a night, starting last night and alternating two and three pills over the next week or so. (Can't cut 'em in half.) I'll probably have to do the same with the antidepressant (Cymbalta) to avoid becoming absurdly high.

(I'll be sure to see the shrink ASAP to discuss this - with luck, in a few weeks' time.)

Date: 2015-01-01 11:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamer-easy.livejournal.com
Tonight! Three of the lilac buggers.

Date: 2015-01-02 10:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamer-easy.livejournal.com
And two tonight.

Date: 2015-01-03 10:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamer-easy.livejournal.com
Three pills tonight.

Brief (half an hour?) but unmistakeable agitation this afternoon.

Date: 2015-01-04 11:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamer-easy.livejournal.com
Two pills tonight.

Date: 2015-01-05 10:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamer-easy.livejournal.com
Three pills tonight. Terrible sleep the last two nights due to the heat, but nothing to report on the withdrawal/mania front.

Date: 2015-01-06 12:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamer-easy.livejournal.com
Much better sleep last night. Two pills tonight.

Date: 2015-01-07 11:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamer-easy.livejournal.com
Three pills last night (7-1-15). Which marks the last of the three pillses. Two pills only from now on.

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