Sunday, March 18, 2012

Journal

I haven't been keeping one, and now with Glenn's advice, I'll attempt it. The cause is my modifying meds to address seizures and pain. The seizures are getting 500mg. nightly of Phenytoin, except last night's midnight 500 was feared insufficient so I got up at 3 and took another 200. I was up anyway. Last night earlier in the evening I had the worst headache of all time, lasting 20-30 minutes. I took my first Lyrica, had a 37.5 Venlafaxine earlier in the day. Bed about 1 and the headache returned. I'd smoked two bowls and had as bad a night as ever.
Headache returned this morning to about 90% of what it had been last night. I took a Lyrica and the headache subsided. Maybe that's the key, although I still feel the physical weight of depression. It doesn't feel mental, but physical and I'm considering writing Butowski about everything and proposing a different antidepressant.