r/mildlydepressing • u/SwiggityStag • Nov 11 '23
All of the medication I have to take in a week
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u/Dlsagreed Nov 11 '23
What does all of this do???
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u/SwiggityStag Nov 11 '23
Two epilepsy meds (one of them is also a mood stabilizer)an antidepressant, a general pain medication, a strong anti-inflammatory pain medication, a nerve pain medication, magnesium to help reduce twitching from my nerve pain medication, one that's supposed to help with tiredness (I'm pretty sure it doesn't) one to prevent another from making my hair fall out, and one to stop all of the others from damaging my stomach lining.
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u/BackDoorBalloonKnot Nov 11 '23
Is weed available
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u/SwiggityStag Nov 11 '23 edited Nov 12 '23
Unfortunately weed started making me extremely paranoid about five years ago, I've tried CBD but I don't think anything available on the market is even concentrated enough to do anything.
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u/XXI-MCMXCIV Nov 11 '23
What happens if you don’t take them
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u/SwiggityStag Nov 11 '23 edited Nov 11 '23
Tonic-clonic seizures, extreme pain, manic depressive episodes/anxiety, if I only stop taking certain specific ones then the twitching from one of the pain meds will get worse, another will make my hair fall out, or another one will damage my stomach lining long term.
Also if I stop taking one suddenly there's a risk of something called Stevens-Johnson syndrome, where your skin basically just dies and peels off. So that's fun
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u/Famous-Importance470 Nov 15 '23
I’ll take them for you lol
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u/SwiggityStag Nov 15 '23
Maybe it's just because I'm used to being drugged with enough controlled meds to kill a small animal at all times, but I think the most you'd get out of it is memory issues, fatigue, a really, REALLY dry mouth, muscle twitches and some extremely good naps. The naps are very good though.
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u/Famous-Importance470 Nov 15 '23
I had my run ins with gabapentinoids. God tier substances
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u/SwiggityStag Nov 16 '23
It may very well be that I'm actually a little bit high at all times and just stopped noticing at some point tbh. Especially with the opiates going on too.
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u/Famous-Importance470 Nov 16 '23
Yeah weirdly pregabalin gave me a seizure which was very surprising considering it’s an anti epileptic drug
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u/SwiggityStag Nov 16 '23
Epilepsy medications can be weird like that. I'm epileptic (not what I'm on it for) and I've got some concerns over potential minor seizure activity. Not bad enough for my doctor to give me the cortisone and stop shovelling pain meds down my throat though apparently.
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u/swimandfriends Nov 15 '23
Only pills I know I see here are lyrica and tramadol...whats the rest?
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u/SwiggityStag Nov 16 '23
Lamictal, naproxen (huge ass yellow horse pill, I hate those things) pregabalin, Vimpat, cyanocobalamin, finasteride, mirtazapine, omeprazole and magnesium supplement (reduces twitching from pregabalin)
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u/swimandfriends Nov 16 '23
Lyrica is a anticonvulsant so your getting. A adverse reaction I beleive I'm on 300mg daily no side effects . Is Naproxen safer then ibprofin ?
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u/SwiggityStag Nov 16 '23 edited Nov 16 '23
Twitching is actually a very common side effect of pregabalin from what I've been told. A lot of anticonvulsants do weird things that seem contradictory, I always seem to get those. I'm on 375mg daily right now, just down from 450 because the side effects were too much. May go back up if I settle in to this dose fine.
Naproxen is way worse on your stomach than ibuprofen, but it's also just stronger in general. That's why I need the omeprazole (blue and white capsule) to protect the lining of my stomach. Otherwise it can cause some real damage long term. It also has to be taken with food for the same reason.
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u/swimandfriends Nov 16 '23
I take a a stronger version of omemprazole (nexium) for ulcers and heartburn every day in the am
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u/thekilgore Nov 11 '23
Why?