better living through brain chemistry
Jul. 15th, 2021 07:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. We received Emma's laptop just a few hours after I'd posted that it had shipped. *boggles* I heartily recommend the Asurion and the Square Trade protection plans that Amazon offers. We've had to use them several times, and every time it has been well worth the small expense.
2. I get up very early in the morning now as is proper for a middle-aged lady, and then Fiona is the next to rise, so the day after we got home from visiting Josh's parents, only the two of us were awake. It was very, very quiet. Fiona got up, went to the bathroom, flushed the toilet, and the toilet began screaming. And then we realized that every time we ran water or flushed another toilet, that toilet screamed. Well, what with all the screaming, Josh woke up, and we just stood around and laughed. What else could we do in such a situation? But I am happy to report that the toilet is no longer in pain, and Josh mostly doctored it himself! He did have a friend come over at one point (it was a multi-stage repair process that took a couple of days), but he did pretty much all of it himself. Hurrah!
3. I am pleased to say that I am not blind yet although I did call the neuro yesterday and ask if I could go back down on the topamax dosage. He had me titrate up to 100mg with that being the goal of my daily dose. After four days at that dose, I felt like a zombie. So I went back down to 75mg last night. I'm going to stay at that dose for a few days, and if I still feel too spacy, I'm going down to 50mg. It's an interesting calculus; apparently I'm not willing to trade never having a migraine again for feeling markedly less mentally acute. Also, at 100mg, I started getting the tingling in extremities and the lips (lips! omg!) that is listed as a side effect, and boy is that annoying. It doesn't hurt or anything but do not like. I have started losing weight which is another side effect (apparently topamax shares a main ingredient with one of the approved weight loss drugs on the market). I've had some stomach upset which I'm hoping is going to resolve soon because even though it's very mild because Josh has cdiff my anxiety brain can't help circling around the fear that I have caught his cdiff. The most positive side effect from my perspective is that since I have started taking this drug, I sleep through the night. Even when I was a teen and in my twenties, I would usually get up to pee. After Fiona was born, my sleep was just shot. I had insomnia and started sleeping for just a few hours at a time. Since I started taking this drug, I've been falling asleep, waking once before midnight and then sleeping straight through until sometime after five and sometimes until after six. That's wow for me.
4. I'm a little more than halfway done with The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno Garcia, and I am loving it so much. It's one of those novels where I really care about the main female protagonist and am anxious for good things to happen to her. (Thank you,executrix!)
2. I get up very early in the morning now as is proper for a middle-aged lady, and then Fiona is the next to rise, so the day after we got home from visiting Josh's parents, only the two of us were awake. It was very, very quiet. Fiona got up, went to the bathroom, flushed the toilet, and the toilet began screaming. And then we realized that every time we ran water or flushed another toilet, that toilet screamed. Well, what with all the screaming, Josh woke up, and we just stood around and laughed. What else could we do in such a situation? But I am happy to report that the toilet is no longer in pain, and Josh mostly doctored it himself! He did have a friend come over at one point (it was a multi-stage repair process that took a couple of days), but he did pretty much all of it himself. Hurrah!
3. I am pleased to say that I am not blind yet although I did call the neuro yesterday and ask if I could go back down on the topamax dosage. He had me titrate up to 100mg with that being the goal of my daily dose. After four days at that dose, I felt like a zombie. So I went back down to 75mg last night. I'm going to stay at that dose for a few days, and if I still feel too spacy, I'm going down to 50mg. It's an interesting calculus; apparently I'm not willing to trade never having a migraine again for feeling markedly less mentally acute. Also, at 100mg, I started getting the tingling in extremities and the lips (lips! omg!) that is listed as a side effect, and boy is that annoying. It doesn't hurt or anything but do not like. I have started losing weight which is another side effect (apparently topamax shares a main ingredient with one of the approved weight loss drugs on the market). I've had some stomach upset which I'm hoping is going to resolve soon because even though it's very mild because Josh has cdiff my anxiety brain can't help circling around the fear that I have caught his cdiff. The most positive side effect from my perspective is that since I have started taking this drug, I sleep through the night. Even when I was a teen and in my twenties, I would usually get up to pee. After Fiona was born, my sleep was just shot. I had insomnia and started sleeping for just a few hours at a time. Since I started taking this drug, I've been falling asleep, waking once before midnight and then sleeping straight through until sometime after five and sometimes until after six. That's wow for me.
4. I'm a little more than halfway done with The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno Garcia, and I am loving it so much. It's one of those novels where I really care about the main female protagonist and am anxious for good things to happen to her. (Thank you,
executrix!)
