Also, my mom is continuing her thing of sending me stuff when I post on Facebook that I'm stressed out. Which is a little weird, I guess, but still nice. I got a hundred gel pens (which I'm probably going to give to someone else, because I hate writing with gel pens), and something called the Vegetarian Shabbat Cookbook, which looks interesting. (Other times I've been stressed out or sick or in a lot of pain, she's sent me box sets of Buffy and Angel, an Iron Coin of the Faceless Man, a blue canary nightlight, and I think several other cookbooks. She feels guilty about not being able to make things better in my life, and I guess that sending me stuff makes her feel better about it.)

Connie, if someone s diabetes is gone at 30 carbohydrates a day -- it isn't gone just managed with an extreme diet. That is NOT a Cure - throw that one back at your doctor. he is an ass. If you could eat that way for x amount of time - and then never have to worry again - that is a cure

Prozac (well, the generic fluoxetine) has worked really well for me, Tep. Fingers crossed. Fwiw, on it I was tired initially, but that eased off.

I remember that Lexapro made me sleepy, but I just worked with that by taking it at bedtime. So if that happens with Prozac, maybe I can do the same thing.

I got the curtains put up. They look pretty good, actually -- I made them for my bedroom at my old apartment in Pennsylvania, but they fit the windows here just about perfectly. Maybe an inch or two too long, but since my bed is in front of one window, and a table is in front of the other, you don't really notice it.

My pharmacist advised me to take my Prozac at night in case it made me sleepy. I haven't noticed that it does, but I take it at night. I have noticed it does me a lot of good with no obvious side effects. Fingers crossed for you, Tep.

Good luck, Steph!

Cary Elwes canceled and won't be at the Cinci Comic Expo. Boo. I was really looking forward to meeting him.

I took my first dose of Prozac this morning. And -- I hate to even say this -- but I think I'm getting itchy already. Maybe I'm being paranoid. I hope I'm being paranoid.

But I don't think I am. And I just wanted to say it somewhere.

If this is really an allergic reaction, I'm feeling a lot of despair. Like there are no options for me and I'm going to have to feel like this forever. God damn it.

Fucking itching, that's why I couldn't take Lexapro. I didn't have that with Prozac as I recall - maybe maybe it's psychosomatic and it'll go away, Steph? Don't give up! That's the Mean Black Dog talking, try not to listen to him, okay?