Posted by Nancy on April 6, 1999, at 15:59:08
In reply to Re: the weight gain issue-Nancy, posted by pej on April 5, 1999, at 21:12:20
> > Hey Nancy, Very nice to hear from you again.
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Hey, I missed you, too. You know how it goes. Here today, then, gone to the hospital, tomarrow. I saw in the New Year with my DOA at the ER after an OD on Seroquel. Between you and me, since my ECT, I'm really glad to still be around. So, I thought I'd drop in and hang out with all you folks, again. That is, if you don't mind the company of me(the lunatic fringe)...LOL :)
##################After several hours of hell in the ER a few weeks ago, I now seem to be returning to a moderately dysfunctional semi-moody occasionally hopeful baseline sort of existance, you know...normal.
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Yea, I'm with ya...I know...the lifestyle of the sick and outrageous. Hey, it's okay that we go through this STUFF. It shows, you have an enormous amount of courage. You have great strength and self-determination, because you are still alive. You are not a quitter. We sometimes break, but noone would dare call us weak.
################> I'm a' doin' 300mg of Wellbutrin, 2mg Klonopin(as long as I don't forget and take, like, six :-)
> and doc just added 10mg Prozac. Oh yeah, if I want to be engaging I add a 10mg dash of Ritalin.> Let me see, what have I left out. Several cigarettes a day
*******Hee, Hee, Hee...ME, TOO! Do all severely manic-depressives smoke? Maybe, just the ones I know.########
and , of course I exercise.**********as you've read, I'm back to butt-kickin' form. Still gotta lose another 20Lbs to be a 110-115Lb lean-mad-as-a-hatter-dancin'-machine, once again.##########
I think I've gone from 212 lbs. to 211lbs.*********oooooh...somebody stop me...
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but that was probably lung tissue and liver loss due to overwork.*************Overwork? What, are you a tissue donor??? ...kidding...are meds a problem?
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Here's to a pill-poppin '99. Phil****************Hey, if one is good, two will do ya better! ...LOL...:)
###########> ps-really glad you are back in form! I guess I'm doing okay too, despite it all!
************Thanks! I hope you feel good. I'm happy to be, here, again.
Nancy :) ;) :)
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> hey Hey, Phil. How's it draggin'? Nanc, here. There was quite a long while that the bipolar-1 deep deppression was totally incapacitating for me. You know, can't even lift an arm off the sheets no matter how hard you concentrate and will that arm to move. There's just no response. OH! Yea, and trying to walk?! Ha! I was 30y goin' on 107y old if you looked at the way I shuffled about, holdin' on to everything I passed by for support. BTW, for this type of misery, I HIGHLY BENEFITTED FROM ECT!!! Damn straight!
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> > Today, Bro! Miracle of miracles I was finally able to start the walk-jog thing!!! AND (as if that weren't enough) I've been riding my recumbent bike (of course, it helps that it's in my bedroom with a large TV and VCR in front of it) for over three miles a day for the last THREE DAYS!!!
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> > It took (let's see...jan, feb, mar...) ECT (in early Jan. '99), Effexor XR, Seroquel and 3 months of butt-kicking determination. But, after ECT knocked out most of my depression, my body finally responded to my butt-kicking determination!!! Now, after looking completely rediculous, shuffling around outside on the sidewalk, parading about like the derranged lunatic that I was, before the eyes of my neighbors I steadily increased in both my ability to walk and the length of my journeys. I'm walking 1.2miles a day and have done so for the past two weeks.
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> > Gotta rest, now.
> > Nancy
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> > > If we are not totally incapacitated with this illness, if we know certain activities make us feel better, then let's just get our sad-assed faces and big butts in some warmups-screw what others think. Shake it, baby!
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> > > ~phil~
poster:Nancy
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