Thank you. Ativan for me, is an ‘emergency’ medicine for panic attacks.

It’s nice that you can do that (go to sleep unassisted), but I’m also of the idea of better living through chemistry.

The idea of going up and down willy nilly makes me feel a little ill. Increasing and decreasing my doses is such a trial for me that that idea of just ‘oh ok, well fine’ is like ‘ughhhhblleehhhvomit’.

Yeah, melatonin is a step in my ‘getting to sleep’ repertoire. A quality klonopin is involved too.

So, I’m a pretty rubbish person to ask, since I got it ‘right’ pretty quickly, due to a very good relationship with my doctor. I explained what was going on and what side effects I was hoping to avoid (fatigue, brain fog were my big ones. Would have liked to avoided weight gain, but it’s hard to avoid and the 8-10ish…

I’m rocking a variety of other medications and supplements too, but they are less “fun”.

clonazepam is pretty much the only thing keeping me functional at this point.

Lexapro, Klonopin, Ativan, Alcohol, ‘special medicine’.

When I first started taking anti anxiety pills, it was like a curtain was lifted into my real life.

Federal history job. yay? It also involves LOTS of time interacting with the public, so there’s that part too.

Oh man, the special only me abbreviations. And crazy notes.

I remember his address! (swear I’m not a creeper)

Oh my goodness, hello mental twin! Memory like a steel trap, organizational skills like a drunk monkey.

Details and numbers have never been my thing. I could probably ring my 4th grade maths teacher to give a written statement to that account.

Many thanks. And yay kitties!

I felt better about it when his 90 year old grandmother was here earlier and went ‘what the hell does it matter, married is married, it’s a story’.

Ooooooo.

Oh good, finally a place to share:

I haven’t been at work for a couple months due to a family illness, but before I left our only water fountain at another worksite had broken. They had a replacement (whoa!) relatively quickly....but we do now have a (one) plumber, who is trying to take care of all of the plumbing needs of 20+ sites. So I don’t know if…

aw, pup. I’m glad she had such a wonderful life after puppy mill terribleness.