Oof. Finally caught up in Natter.
So my anxiety and depression has been getting worse for the last 6 or 8 months, and after much foot-dragging, I finally made an appointment with my shrink to get new meds. (My meds tend to drop off in effectiveness after 12 to 18 months, at which point I get different meds. It's now been about 18 months since I got the last prescriptions.)
I made the appointment a few weeks ago and since then my anxiety and depression is much worse. I'm having problems sleeping and I rarely feel like leaving my apartment. I missed work part of last Thursday and all of Friday due to feeling crappy.
Anyway, I just have a week to go for my appointment, so I'm pretty sure I can make it to then. I just need to keep dragging myself to work....
So I might not be posting here as much for a bit.
eta: I'm not near the point of being a danger to myself and others....
tommyrot, please keep in touch so we know you're all right.
hugs to tommy.
freckle/mole people, go get looked at. I had my appt already this year or I would schedule an appt to go in also. I will schedule my mamo, if you all schedule your dermos.
Yeah, tommy, check in when you can this week, okay?
Oh, tommyrot. That sucks. Wishing you a bit of energy and coping~ma to make it through the last week.
Oh crap, msbelle just reminded me I need a mammo this year as well.
Yeah, tommy, check in when you can this week, okay?
No problem.
You'll probably hear me screaming when the SCOTUS overturns the Affordable Care Act too....
freckle/mole people, go get looked at.
Do I really have to emphasize this? The only way we caught Rob's melanoma is because we cut the damned shirt off of his back after his solo flight. Do NOT rely on blind luck, please.
{{{tommy}}} All the coping-until-you-get-new-meds-that-work~ma you need.
Tommyrot, take care of yourself.
Re: doctors and vague symptoms, I find that most doctors are very good with rashes, just because they've had more experience recognizing them than most patients. For symptoms like fever and fatigue, almost everything causes those, and most of the time the answer is "some kind of virus that will get better on its own in a week or two" so it's a waste of resources to figure out exactly what virus it is.
