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Posted by obsidian on June 30, 2009, at 19:03:12
and I am easily irritated and/or agitated
so tense :-(I hate feeling this way. I am so sensitive today, so sensitive yesterday...just had to remove myself, still feeling that way, I want to watch some familiar movie and space out.
some days are like this :-(
-sid
Posted by Sigismund on June 30, 2009, at 21:37:01
In reply to my anxiety level is high today....., posted by obsidian on June 30, 2009, at 19:03:12
I might irritate you further.
I forget what meds you are on. Lamictal? (know nothing there) Seroquel? (sounds dreadful) Klonopin? (not much chop). What else?
(I've been feeling sorry for myself and have been tabulating my ailments. So far I have
Mercury poisoning
allergies
depression/anxiety/the usual thing
arthritis
ruptured disc
cold/flu
You'd think it would be enough to get a damned Endone or something similar.)Since the meds thing is kinda beyond solution, what are you going to watch?
Posted by obsidian on June 30, 2009, at 22:26:46
In reply to Re: my anxiety level is high today..... » obsidian, posted by Sigismund on June 30, 2009, at 21:37:01
((((sig)))))
mercury poisoning? that's awful :-( how'd that happen?
none of the other stuff sounds pleasant at all :-(
anything for the pain??you're hardly irritating :-)
I just ran another three miles so I'm less on edge, it's just a little hip pain holding me back now I think.the meds though are seroquel (just 50mgs), effexor xr, lamictal, klonopin
funny you should ask, and mention ailments too. you see sig, I've been preoccupied tonight, perhaps obsessing about, why I am going to see an opthalmologist. This is not however the reason for my irritability. You see I went to go get new glasses (I needed to be able to see in class in a decent pair of glasses) and the optician told me that my intraocular pressure was high....odd I say, so what I am doing really is finding out if I really have glaucoma or not (the optho appt is monday). I think surely she is mistaken. I'm only 34 after all (not that that rules out anything). The optician also mentioned something called "pigment dispersion syndrome" huh? I say. Well, it seems that drugs with anticholinergic effects may raise your intraocular pressure. Now mind you I have just a familiarity, if one can even call it that, with neurotransmitters, but I think that the seroquel and the effexor I take have anticholinergic effects?? Will I require a med change?? who knows. Would I mind one right now? probably not so much, I'd like to do something differently. Why I have flakes of color floating around my eye I don't know, perhaps the optician was looking too closely.
All of this is speculation, so on with the movie I say.I really have this thing for "Lord of the Rings" Sig. In fact last time I had the flu I watched two of the three movies in the 3 movie series (no small feat).
I hate that you're sick. Are you well taken care of by yourself and/or others?
Posted by Sigismund on July 1, 2009, at 0:27:32
In reply to Re: my anxiety level is high today..... » Sigismund, posted by obsidian on June 30, 2009, at 22:26:46
>Are you well taken care of by yourself and/or others?
Well, Sid, I'm reading Crime and Punishment when I can concentrate and otherwise fantasising about disguising myself as some other kind of mammal and having myself taken to the vet to be put down. The book has the feeling of end times about it, as of course in a different way does The Lord of the Rings.
(I went to a boarding school which I loathed and in 1966 I read TLOTR from cover to cover 3 times to screen the school out. We had a wonderful teacher there. He'd been in the war and never got over the fact that he liked killing people more than he thought was right. He introduced me to the book. He'd done an MA in philosophy on Kant. He was unhappy enough to be a great English teacher and taught us King Lear very well.)
The problem for me with the movies of TLOTR was I didn't get the sense of a complete alternative world with its own history, mythology and language. The other thing I missed was the sense of peril which is conveyed in the book by speech (often at length, as at The Council of Elrond). I must have liked it because it chimed with some atavistic memory of my parents talking about the war. Certainly Gandalf could speak like Churchill, or rather vice versa as when Churchill said to his driver on being congratulated on becoming PM something like 'Thank you. I hope it is not too late, but I am very much afraid that it is.'The mercury presumably either came from dental amalgams (now out, and done safely) or as likely from eating fish all the time. Since we here must have some of the most unpolluted seas on the planet, this is not very encouraging for the future if so.
You know there was a post on the med board about glaucoma and meds (I don't remember which ones). That is probably something different?
Posted by Sigismund on July 1, 2009, at 0:30:52
In reply to Re: my anxiety level is high today..... » obsidian, posted by Sigismund on July 1, 2009, at 0:27:32
A thread that you started in fact.
Posted by obsidian on July 1, 2009, at 9:42:29
In reply to Re: my anxiety level is high today....., posted by Sigismund on July 1, 2009, at 0:30:52
yes, and someone was kind enough to bring up the anticholinergic issue.
I've been doing a little research, and sure enough it can be the case that drugs with an anticholinergic effect can raise intraocular pressure. There are some very helpful and knowledgeable people here on PB thank goodness.
Posted by obsidian on July 1, 2009, at 9:50:53
In reply to Re: my anxiety level is high today..... » obsidian, posted by Sigismund on July 1, 2009, at 0:27:32
I did love english class myself. When I was in high school I took an english class in which we read "the hobbit". I had a beautiful poster on my wall of some Tolkien image, of some strange amazing place.
PS
I have informed all veterinary offices in your vicinity of your plan to disguise yourself as an animal in order to utilize their morbid services. It is now a futile plan.My favorite I suppose at the time was "Catcher in the Rye". I read it a few years ago to see why I did like it so much, but it was different, or rather I was different.
I've got the LOTR series in book form too. It's just so much easier to watch the movie. ;-)
Posted by rskontos on July 1, 2009, at 12:19:53
In reply to Re: my anxiety level is high today..... » Sigismund, posted by obsidian on July 1, 2009, at 9:50:53
I am sorry you both feel like you do. This am I watched "The Thing". Pretty weird but since I feel weird it was appropriate.
I wished I could offer solace but all I can do is offer ditto.
take care both of you
rsk
Posted by Sigismund on July 1, 2009, at 15:06:41
In reply to Re: i feel your anxiety, mine is high too:(Sig and » obsidian, posted by rskontos on July 1, 2009, at 12:19:53
Apropos of nothing except dressing up as other mammals at airports....
Posted by obsidian on July 1, 2009, at 20:31:35
In reply to A poor decision, posted by Sigismund on July 1, 2009, at 15:06:41
lol, I personally make it a point not dress up in other people's animal costumes :-)
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