Time off
I haven’t been around for a while. I’ve been trying to use my scant amounts of free time lately to do things like reading, crafting, and interacting with people offline. I am bummed that most people around me just had a three-day weekend and I had a one-day weekend. I am not physically tired, but I still wish I had some time to relax lately, which I don’t. I am also so disorganized that I didn’t really notice that I was running out of my medications, and I won’t be able to see my doctor and get my prescriptions until next Thursday. I am used to having doctors who will phone in prescriptions, but since my current GP doesn’t, calling my doctor when I had three days’ worth of medication left was as useless as calling after I’d run out completely. I’m on such a low dosage of Epival that I don’t know if it’s possible for anything horrid to happen to me if I abruptly stop taking it for a bit, but I’m taking those last three days’ worth every other day instead of every day, just in case that will lessen my chance of suddenly having a seizure or something. I don’t have a seizure disorder, but stopping Epival cold turkey can make people have seizures even if they’ve never had one before. Whee.
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:52 pm
We all do this. I don’t know why. About eight months ago, I ran out of a medication I can’t live without during a depression. It was a holiday weekend and I just didn’t feel that I could call my doctor and bother him. I know he would have phoned it into the pharmacy but I was embarrassed at how “stupid” this was because I do it periodically. So I had four days of Hell. I figured I’d finally learned my lesson but then I did it again last week. The only saving grace was that my doctor was able to see me the day I called and my depression is over. Yikes!
Susan
May 26th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Polly…sorry I didn’t think of this earlier–in the US pharmacists will cover a few days in case of an emergency. If I understand your post correctly you have to wait until this coming Thursday?? I’d really be concerned about going into some sort of unpleasant withdrawal. Hope it works out.
May 29th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Lamictal, my main med, for it’s seemingly innocuous lack of side affects, can also have deadly consequences if suddenly stopped. Scary.