Maybe your dosage is too high, and it can be reduced or something.

I'm on the lowest dosage, so I'm not sure.

Is the med a Beta blocker?

I don't think so. It's clonidine. All I know is it's usually used to treat hypertension, but they've found it useful with reducing/eliminating nightmares and flashbacks, which is why I'm on it.

I think the Beta blockers all end in -olol. I'm always intrigued by how they develop a medicine for one purpose and then find it has all these other cool uses they didn't even think of when developing it.

I hope you and your doctor get it all worked out, today. Being dizzy freaks me out.

I go back to the doctor today, in search of the SSRI that works for me. He'd wanted to put me on Paxil, but I'm wary of it for a few reasons, so he proposed Zoloft. This was all when I was still physically sick, so I asked to just put it on hold 'til I felt better, so I'd be able to discern illness from SSRI side effects. He told me to look stuff up and see what I thought, in the interim.

I think I've narrowed it down to either the Zoloft or a half dose of Celexa. I would never consider going back to the Celexa, except that my first day off of it, I felt better than I have in ages (before or since). I wasn't euphoric, but nearly so. I'm wondering if I felt so good because I had just enough left in me.

Zoloft is a really good option, Cindy. Good luck today!

I've never had a relationship like this before, where I *knew*, with total assuredness, that I could count on him. And I've never had a relationship where my love wasn't treated like (to some degree) an inconvenience.

Teppy is me. OMG! We're very pretty.

From ages ago, and probably no longer useful, but Nora, I'd be happy to talk to you about gender studies and gender inequality any time you like. My brain is indeed brimming.

Always useful because I'm always thinking about this stuff too. You may hear from me in email once I get going on my next essay AND annotated bibliography! I did figure out a question to ask myself and answer, based on the sources I need to cite in the answering essay. Hopefully it will hold up once the writing begins...

Oh, nice doctor boy just called again and apologized profusely for not getting to me sooner last night. He thinks it was probably vertigo and not related to the clonidine. I'm just supposed to watch myself for the next few days.

I'm just supposed to watch myself for the next few days.

As if you wouldn't without his saying so. I'm glad he called and was apologetic.

Timelies!!

Aimee - years and years ago K-Bug got bit in the tush at day care when she was playing on the monkey bars. The biter wanted his turn and her tush was hanging at mouth level. We still tease her about that kid cause a few years after that he had quite the crush on her. Wonder where he is now. Hmmmm, hard to picture him as 16/17. (Oy, K-Bug turns 17 later this month!)

vw, I'm glad the nice doctor boy finally got back to you.

ND, it's very likely that if they want to make you an offer you'll get a preliminary call that goes something like, "We're not making this offer but if we were to make you this offer would you accept?" because it's not worth their time to go all the way through the UC system just to have you turn something down, and that will be the point where you say, "Give me mo' money!". Because of the way UC salaries work, it's VERY IMPORTANT that you get appointed at the highest level possible because you're locked in after that. After that preliminary call, there will be another wait until you actually see something in writing.

And then they'll tell you about the loyalty oath that you have to sign.

Signed,

Been hired by UC, Sat on Search Committees for UC, Sat on the Peer Review Committee for UC, etc.

You may hear from me in email once I get going on my next essay AND annotated bibliography!

Not a problem. I have a pretty good list of resources from my past papers, too.

And then they'll tell you about the loyalty oath that you have to sign.

Is that the one where they make you join the Liberal Secular Humanist Pagan Plot to Destroy America?

Is that the one where they make you join the Liberal Secular Humanist Pagan Plot to Destroy America?

Liberal Secular Humanist Feminist Homosexual Pagan Plot to Destroy America, actually. Too bad they never made the gov. Arnold sign it.