Use Your Words Debuts with Bizarre Sh*t

Want to know how I feel this morning?  It’s all right here:  http://essiewb.wordpress.com/?s=med+withdrawal%2C+part+II.  Been there, done that, wrote about it in my blog. 
 
I am, once again, suffering through the awful withdrawal of discontinuing Cymbalta.  It’s just as bad.  Maybe worse, because I know that I can’t go back this time.  A $118 per month medicine [...]

Happy Ramblings

Today is for miscellaneous.  That’s what I was thinking while I was eating breakfast oatmeal for my dessert just now.  That’s not an indication of laziness.  Sometimes there are just short, unrelated comments to be made.  Far be it from me to leave a thing unsaid.  Yeah, those of you who know me are laughing.
 
I’m back [...]

More Depression, and Not the Last

Okay, this is the day I turn on my air conditioning.  It is in the 80s outside and my bedroom has reached at least 376 degrees.  I will air condition this place or be roasted.  In just a minute.  When I finish typing.  And watching Ugly Betty, which is a new episode for the first [...]

I Want My Neurotransmitters and a Little Taste of Curry

Today I hunkered down with a ball of sock yarn and two pairs of skinny circular needles and tried to figure out how to knit the innovative sock that I want to create.  By the time I finished, I had ripped out and started over twice, grabbed another ball of yarn, unwound yarn all over [...]

I’m Back, in More Ways Than One

Two days ago I decided to throw in the towel and return to my old antidepressant.  I made the switch in hopes of getting some favorable metabolic support (losing weight, okay?).  If you’ve been hanging in there with me you will remember how bad the withdrawal was-remember Medication Side Effects… (http://essiewb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=224 )?  I began another antidepressant medication [...]