Posted by katia on April 9, 2004, at 15:56:37
In reply to Barbara here » katia, posted by BarbaraCat on April 9, 2004, at 15:23:06
HI Barbara,
Good to hear from you. I did receive both posts you sent. What is DMPS? And you're not on any meds and are feeling fine? EXCELLENT! Unfortunately, sometimes meds can make it worse and sometimes better.Wow. You are having a rough time dear! That is scary scary stuff - the SJS. Luckily you halted it before it got really bad. My rash turned out to be not the SJS, but a junk rash that went away in a few days. It happened when I upped my dose of Lithium; which may have done something to the Lam. Lithium DO NOT work for me. made me a shuffling drooling idiot. I'm currently on 50mg of Lam. (just restarted it) and 300mg of Trileptal and about 25mg of Seroquel for sleep and 12gs of fish oil (Carlson's). And I feel pretty good.
I also just bought a house - thanks to the energy of going off of meds for six weeks in January (except Seroquel and fish oil) and having a bit of a hypomanic episode and have moved; redecorated and now am looking for housemates to manage the mortgage. It's all very self-empowering and wonderful; and I"m still not quite sure how I managed lenders to give me money! I'm getting ready to restart grad school. hopefully my moods will stay steady. At least for the moment, it feels good to be out of real wack-o land. God I had a rough time.Sounds like you have too. I feel for you and hope better days are ahead and you'll see the sun again.
Good news on your drinking. Me? I've been imbibing, especially w/ the move and all very stressful. I went on Antabuse for three days and went off of it due to the house buying. It felt like too much at one time. I'm hoping to eliminate it slowly.
I hope you're rash goes away soon, love.
keep in touch.
Susan
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