Oh, that explains my emotional state this week

[xiphias]

Right.  So, Tuesday and Wednesday were basically lost days for me this week.  I didn't feel emotionally down, but I had no energy, and fell asleep for hours, for most of the day, actually.

 

This morning, I could barely get out of bed, staggered to the bathroom, and went to take my meds.  My pill case still had Tuesday and Wednesday's pills in it.

 

As much evidence as I have that the meds work, I still have trouble believing it.  I figure it HAS to be mainly psychosomatic l.  But when I forget meds, this happens -- and i don't know that I've forgotten, because, if I knew that, I'd not have forgotten.  The difference is so dramatic.

 

I took my meds this morning, and, over the next 45 minutes, I felt the brain-fog being cut away.  And I'm now basically okay.

 

Without the meds, I still felt the desire to do things -- I WANTED to do chores, to do some writing, things like that.  I had the desire, even the motivation, which is why I didn't recognize it as depression-related.  But I had no capacity or capability to do anything.

 

So, that's good to know.

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Comments

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

wow. and you've gotten all this from lamictal?

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm still on a bit of Lexapro, too. So that probably has SOME effect. But it's probably mainly the Lamictal.

I may well be on one end of the bell curve of effectiveness of the drug. The literature says that Lamical does NOT have this kind of nearly instant response. On the other hand, my psychopharm says that, even though the literature says Lamictal doesn't act that fast, a third to a half of his patients disagree. So I'm I'm on one end of the bell curve, so are a goodly portion of Dr Bayard's patients. . .

[navrins]

I'm one who disagrees... when I first went on Lamictal (which I'm not using anymore) I got pretty near instant relief. Maybe it was the placebo effect, but who cares?* If it works, it works.

* Second base, I know.