last wednesday i made some changes to my medication regimine.
i take clonapin twice daily, 200 milligrams of zoloft in the morning, and 20 milligrams of zyprexa at night, along with 3 milligrams of melotonin.... i had been sleeping too much and my sex drive was not as active as i would have liked.
so, back to last wednesday... i decided (with doctor's permission) to cut my zoloft intake in half, to help with the sex drive issue. and i decided on my own to not take melotonin.
the result is, i have become depressed over the past few days, have done nothing but sleep in said few days, and became markedly more depressed over the past 6 hours. it is 7am and i just took my morning meds, 200 mill. zoloft and clonapin- and since i have not slept since yesterday afternoon, i decided to take melotonin now....
i think the only other thing that needs to be tweaked would be forcing myself to take the morning and evening meds at roughly the same time each day.
i dont know about other folks in my boat, but having a creative inspiration happen can fuck things up too. last night, i found myself doing some composing with my friend mike (we have an electronic music project called the neverending nameless- look us up on myspace) and so, since the creative juices were flowing, i put off taking my night time meds. next thing i know, i am up for an additional 6 hours more than i had wanted- and i will probably have to cancell my plans for today.
i do think i would like to expand the scope of this blogspace to include my adventures with managing psychotropic meds. does anyone else have some experience to share?
cheers!
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good luck with the med changes. It's tough. I have had numerous med changes with my kids and it's ongoing.
ReplyDeleteof course you know my experiences and they weren't all very pleasant. But I trust you'll be able to figure out the right combo eventually, it just may take a whole lotta trying and patience.
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