Does anyone feel like a walking pharmacy? I take vitamins, flax oil, iron, thyroid med, birth control (for hormonal imbalance), Dexedrine and tonight I'm going to try Trazodone to help with my insomnia. It's like I don't want to take another flippin pill! And then once my body becomes accustomed to each thing, take it away and my body has no idea what happened! I'm not getting any younger and I'm already sick of pills. I have a long history of pill popping. I have taken anti-depressants, I have taken laxatives/diuretics during my purging days. I have taken a whole host of OTC stuff for pain and other minor illnesses. I'm just so sick of taking pills and my current regiment seems more permanent. How does one cope?
Good question kji!! Like you, these days I find myself--if I choose to notice it--always in the shadow of the question: is it time to take my medicine??!!
Unlike you, I came into this with a long history of no pill-taking, 'cept for a daily vitamin and an occasional aspirin. but these days, it seems like another layer has been added to my daily life, the medication layer, which is only highlighted further by the internal discussion I have about when and how much my second dose of Adderall should be--the full dose or maybe just half the dose since it's late afternoon and I'm facing no significant attention challenges this evening? It's an easy kind of question and so is the answer, whatever it happens to be.
It's just the fact that self-medicating, however routinized I make it, is always there--whereas before it wasn't there. At all. Just plain, simple livin', day in and day out. Well, come to think of it, livin' before my ADD medication may have been "simple" but it sure wasn't easy! So, when I get to gripin' about all the pills and stuff, I just remind myself what my life was like before, and that usually settles me right down!
Definitely! When we packed for vacation, it was ridiculous how many medicines I had to take. Here's my child's regimen:
7:30 AM 1 Metadate CD capsule and 1 Allegra pill
8:30 AM 1 Guanfacine pill and 2 Flax capsules
3:15 PM 1-1/2 Guanfacine pills and 2 Flax capsules, usually also takes multivitamin now
7:30 PM 1 Zoloft pill and 1 Allegra pill
9 PM 1 Benadryl pill, 2 melatonin pills (takes 5 mg total, so he takes 2 mg and 3 mg sustained release), 1 spray in each nostril of Nasonex
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