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MAOI Update and the Syndrome With the Funny Name 4

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MAOI Update and the Syndrome With the Funny Name

No new MAOI dosage, no more late-night milk-spilling slapstick, and no better feelings.  To be fair to the meds, the past month has been a stressful one.  The wife thinks I have Asperger Syndrome.  (Henceforth “AS” for brevity and to avoid the “ass-burger” images.) It fits my career, lifestyle, and personality, and I’ve suspected it myself. Unfortunately, if it’s AS and not “just” depression and anxiety, the behavior that causes us so much domestic strife is not so much a...

I Brake For Debt 0

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I Brake For Debt

We’ve been trying a “cash budgeting” system for a few months now, and it’s going pretty well.  That is, it covers our variable expenses.  I still use a bank account dedicated to relatively fixed expenses such as rent, utilities, membership dues, and minimum credit card payments.  Most of those are paid automatically, pulled directly from the account. Unfortunately, there are two places where the system falls short.  This isn’t so much because of any flaw in the idea of cash...

In Other News 0

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In Other News

We had a great role-playing session Saturday night.  I found a group through meetup.com and we’re playing the “Dawn of Defiance” campaign for the Star Wars Saga Edition RPG.  It was mostly combat this week, but quite involved with some good character twists. The campaign has a section on Obsidian Portal.  I took a lot of notes in anticipation of doing a writeup from my character’s perspective.  Our GM gives us an extra 100XP if we do it, but I...

MAOI Stage 4 – Crash! 0

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MAOI Stage 4 – Crash!

I sat in a pool of milk and wondered how it got on the floor.  I knew I’d spilled it on the countertop trying to pour it into my cereal, but how did it get all over the floor?  I stood, shakily, and saw that the half-gallon cardboard container of organic whole milk was tipped over, as was my cup of cereal.  Milk was everywhere, soaking boxes, creeping under the toaster, dribbling into the sink. Wednesday afternoon, my psychiatrist upped...

MAOI Stage 2 0

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MAOI Stage 2

I ate one bite of the pesto, then went to check the jar.  Grana Panado cheese.  It seems to be an aged cheese, so I erred on the side of caution and didn’t eat the dinner, which kinda pissed me off because the kids hardly touched theirs, either, and thus my wife’s dinner-making effort was wasted tonight. The one bite doesn’t seem to have done anything.  “Thank God I only took a tiny [bite].” As I was Googling “Grana Panado”,...

MAOI Stage 1 0

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MAOI Stage 1

The first four days are done.  Tomorrow I start 10mg twice a day.  Four days of that, then the (presumably) final thrice daily.  I suppose I won’t really have 20mg in my system until tomorrow evening. So far, the only ill effects have been an upset stomach in the morning that goes away after breakfast and towards noontime. I’m keeping track of my food and drink intake at the MAOI Ingestion Log above.  No “hypertensive crises” yet, but I’m being...

MAOI and Me 0

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MAOI and Me

They’ve tried every other class of anti-depressant.  Only the MAOI remain.  Today I started the first 10mg titration round of tranylcyprom (generic of Parnate), after a two-week “washout” period wherein all other anti-depressants (Pristiq, in my case) had to be out of my system. The washout wasn’t as bad as I’d feared.  Maybe two weeks wasn’t enough to fling me into the pit of despair that landed me into BryLin and ECT over the summer when I foolishly attempted a...

Lest I Forget 0

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Lest I Forget

I refilled my Provigil and Clonazepam (AKA Klonopin) scripts today over lunch.  After a trip to Subway, pulling into the office lot, shutting off the car, I shook two Provigil tablets into my hand and went inside, then slugged them down with a shot of Pepsi Max. I felt better that afternoon than I have in a long while.  My boss (the bestest one on Earth) had been looking for me in the interim, and when I asked, he had...