I'm fine taking medicine twice a day. I'm terrible at remembering to take something in the afternoon. I need to set up some kind of alarm. I found out Monday what happens when I miss a dose of the drug I take for neuropathy. It suppresses nerve impulses and apparently there's a rebound effect that makes every nerve in cuts, bruises and any other nerve that had ever thought about causing pain to go sproing.

I was on Effexor for a few weeks. Then I found myself thinking about irritating people, "I could take her out." Thinking about murder seemed like a really unfortunate side effect.

Then I found myself thinking about irritating people, "I could take her out." Thinking about murder seemed like a really unfortunate side effect.

Wellbutrin did that -- I had a bottomless well of raaaaaaaaaage. And also insomnia for a year, 9 months of which were after I stopped it.

Hi, Nanita! And everyone else, of course.

Sending loving thoughts to all of you darlings even if I can't quite articulate each thought.

As long as I can take meds with a meal - no problem. I count them out in advance. Except that recent incident when I got my pill boxes confused and took my morning meds at night. Still over all getting a pill box with at least as many compartments as times you have to take meds seems to work well for me most of the time. I just have breakfast, lunch, dinner and bedtime meds, each in their own compartment. Only screwed it up once in the past three years thought that screwup was a doozy. Might work for you, though not helpful for "as needed" meds.

askye, I was on 150mg for a couple of years, at first along with time released Clonazepam at night for sleep. It worked great for my anxiety, but a different doctor than my first one (he moved out of network) took me off the Clonazepam. She said it causes dementia in older adults. Now, I'm not sure just how old older is (I'm 57) and she didn't say how long you had to be on it for it to have that severe an effect. Unfortunately for me, the anxiety started to come back within a year or so and I waited way too long to push the issue with her. I finally had her refer me to an anxiety specialist who works with CBT and that's helped some, but also having my doctor increase my Lamictal to 200mg has really helped. Even my new job doesn't stress me as much as my old one did and that's saying a lot when something completely new and unknown is less scary than something you've been around for 3 years.

All that to say, I'm pretty sure you'll find the bump up helpful, and it may even help enough you eventually won't feel the need for the Clonazepam (Klonopin).

I've been taking Lamictal in the morning b/c that's what they did at the hospital but the direction just say once a day. I think I'm going to switch to night because I think it's another thing making me sleepy/dizzy and that's not helping during the day.

Yeah, my doc has me take it at night. I tried it in the morning for a while (it doesn't make me sleepy, and I was wondering if it was keeping me awake), and switched by gradually taking it earlier over a few days.

I'm so exhausted I took a nap. I'm falling asleep.

I've eaten enough to call it dinner.

I'm going to take my meds and go to bed at 5:30. Well I may read a bit but definitly head to bed. althoug the stupid motorcycles will keep me up and hopefully I won't be able to hear the neighbors across the street talking about something and swearing. Not that I have anything against swearing I'm just cranky.

The windows are up because otherwise it's stuffy.

This post brought to you by sleep deprived rambling.

Won't take the lamtical tonight will wait and take it tomorrow night.

I saw my doctor Wednesday and he increased my Lexapro dose. I'm hoping the combination of a higher dose and 7 seasons of Parks and Recreation will snap me out of this grey blah unmotivated depression.

(I also told my doctor -- this is Awesome Doctor -- about Tim's collapsed lung, and he said, without missing a beat, "So I assume you're out of Ativan after all that, and need a refill?")