Day 66 at the clinic
3 years ago
Well, I guess it's way overdue I give some news about my medical condition, to reassure people.
First month was mostly finding one part of the treatment, which wasn't too bad. Aside from either being too tired or too stressed.
Then started the second month and this is where things went straight to hell, anxiety was growing, got a 7-day constipation that was a nightmare to handle (and the SEVERAL aftermaths were messy to say the least) and overall, it was horrifying, almost traumatizing and every day, every hour I felt I could either collapse on the ground or do some uncontrolled violent movements.
It turned out the med was actually making things much worse so it was stopped and for about 1 week, it slowly left my system and situation improved. No more excessive constipation, headaches and fits of terror disappeared (plus, we discovered my glasses were no longer adapted so that didn't help either, the med was making the effects worse and reading at less than 30 cm was making me physically ill).
So after this hell, everything went better, the new meds work to get rid of the stress, but at first it made me very sleepy and weak (could barely go down to get some coffee) and it tends to have the reverse effect, making me feel like in a weird state locked somewhere between sleepiness and unrest (my body needs to physically lie down a lot, but not necessarily to sleep) and insomnia is frequent (not helped by my unpleasant roommate snoring very loudly) while urination is very slow and "lazy" for a lack of better words.
What that means is while I can focus on things, I can get easily interrupted by a need to lie down and recover some lost sleep hours or just lie down. Granted, the weather doesn't help either to make you want to stay up. But at least, I overall feel better than when I entered. No more panic attacks or fits of stress, just some weird kind of tiredness. I do plan to post some stuff I haven't uploaded and chat a bit more, but while creativity and motivation are slightly coming back, it's still not enough to get back to the time where my descriptions were many paragraphs long, but I don't intend to let that stop me. So, depending how things go, especially since I'm now closer to leaving (psychiatrist is talking about 2 weeks to "see progress and get some phone calls" down before exit is confirmed.), I may post more or wait until I'm fully out. Also I hate typing on a phone, lol
So, overall, does that mean the Tani is back in business and will be more active from now on? Not yet, but finally seeing some progress and being one step closer to release.
First month was mostly finding one part of the treatment, which wasn't too bad. Aside from either being too tired or too stressed.
Then started the second month and this is where things went straight to hell, anxiety was growing, got a 7-day constipation that was a nightmare to handle (and the SEVERAL aftermaths were messy to say the least) and overall, it was horrifying, almost traumatizing and every day, every hour I felt I could either collapse on the ground or do some uncontrolled violent movements.
It turned out the med was actually making things much worse so it was stopped and for about 1 week, it slowly left my system and situation improved. No more excessive constipation, headaches and fits of terror disappeared (plus, we discovered my glasses were no longer adapted so that didn't help either, the med was making the effects worse and reading at less than 30 cm was making me physically ill).
So after this hell, everything went better, the new meds work to get rid of the stress, but at first it made me very sleepy and weak (could barely go down to get some coffee) and it tends to have the reverse effect, making me feel like in a weird state locked somewhere between sleepiness and unrest (my body needs to physically lie down a lot, but not necessarily to sleep) and insomnia is frequent (not helped by my unpleasant roommate snoring very loudly) while urination is very slow and "lazy" for a lack of better words.
What that means is while I can focus on things, I can get easily interrupted by a need to lie down and recover some lost sleep hours or just lie down. Granted, the weather doesn't help either to make you want to stay up. But at least, I overall feel better than when I entered. No more panic attacks or fits of stress, just some weird kind of tiredness. I do plan to post some stuff I haven't uploaded and chat a bit more, but while creativity and motivation are slightly coming back, it's still not enough to get back to the time where my descriptions were many paragraphs long, but I don't intend to let that stop me. So, depending how things go, especially since I'm now closer to leaving (psychiatrist is talking about 2 weeks to "see progress and get some phone calls" down before exit is confirmed.), I may post more or wait until I'm fully out. Also I hate typing on a phone, lol
So, overall, does that mean the Tani is back in business and will be more active from now on? Not yet, but finally seeing some progress and being one step closer to release.
Hopefully it can keep going up from here!