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so THAT'S why I've been feeling so terrible!
13 years ago
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Don't wait for the queue to shrink—the commission docket is rarely empty.I have no common sense, ladies and gentlemen. ;__; Danni is always saying "you need a nanny!"
I didn't seem to realize that my latest batch of ADD meds has just seemed... off. Too intense, even if I was taking it every day without skipping. I tried that, to see if I could build up a tolerance, but it was no good. After a couple of weeks on this batch, I started staying up for 2 days in a row, sleeping for 15-16 hours at a time... no matter what I tried, I couldn't make myself sleep sooner and I couldn't get myself out of bed any earlier. If I did, I felt drugged and exhausted, and would just wind up climbing back into bed. It honestly has felt like the entire month of July up until this point has been about a week long...
But I finally figured out that it wasn't just the smaller house (and subsequent lack of exercise since I don't need to move around much--my treadmill is still shut up against a wall because we have NO room to lay it out... I'm working on that) that was making me feel tired, it was the medication. Past two days I've been breaking the capsules apart, splitting the powder in half and drinking it in water. I didn't think it would work, but the night before last, I only slept 8 hours, and last night I went to bed at 9:30 PM and woke up at 5 AM, bright-eyed and bushy tailed. I think I'm cured!
So, yet again, common sense could have come to me weeks ago, but I had to be desperate and thoughtful to figure it out. GEE, SPEEDY MEDICATION MAKES YOU STAY UP A LOT AND GET CRAPPY SLEEP. Derp.
I've also sent my broken Cintiq out for repairs. They seem to think it was just the cable that is broken--barring that, it's the board inside of it. Both are replaceable for around $150. This Cintiq goes for $1000 now, but I knew if I could get it replaced for around $200 it'd be worth keeping it around another couple of years, since the backlight seems to still be okay. I love the tablet PC, but 256 levels of pressure sensitivity is really starting to make things difficult for me. I've never been a "dab and paintover" painter the way so many people I admire can do — I am just used to relying on pressure sensitivity and blending to get my stuff done, so the tablet has been making getting decent results difficult if I was going the old way... so that's why I've been so slow.
I've tried tweaking the pressure curve profile and even just trying to learn to paint in some other way that doesn't rely on pressure sensitivity at all, but that's part of why I haven't gotten any other work done lately. Cross your fingers (and if you have any tips, send them my way).
xoxo
I didn't seem to realize that my latest batch of ADD meds has just seemed... off. Too intense, even if I was taking it every day without skipping. I tried that, to see if I could build up a tolerance, but it was no good. After a couple of weeks on this batch, I started staying up for 2 days in a row, sleeping for 15-16 hours at a time... no matter what I tried, I couldn't make myself sleep sooner and I couldn't get myself out of bed any earlier. If I did, I felt drugged and exhausted, and would just wind up climbing back into bed. It honestly has felt like the entire month of July up until this point has been about a week long...
But I finally figured out that it wasn't just the smaller house (and subsequent lack of exercise since I don't need to move around much--my treadmill is still shut up against a wall because we have NO room to lay it out... I'm working on that) that was making me feel tired, it was the medication. Past two days I've been breaking the capsules apart, splitting the powder in half and drinking it in water. I didn't think it would work, but the night before last, I only slept 8 hours, and last night I went to bed at 9:30 PM and woke up at 5 AM, bright-eyed and bushy tailed. I think I'm cured!
So, yet again, common sense could have come to me weeks ago, but I had to be desperate and thoughtful to figure it out. GEE, SPEEDY MEDICATION MAKES YOU STAY UP A LOT AND GET CRAPPY SLEEP. Derp.
I've also sent my broken Cintiq out for repairs. They seem to think it was just the cable that is broken--barring that, it's the board inside of it. Both are replaceable for around $150. This Cintiq goes for $1000 now, but I knew if I could get it replaced for around $200 it'd be worth keeping it around another couple of years, since the backlight seems to still be okay. I love the tablet PC, but 256 levels of pressure sensitivity is really starting to make things difficult for me. I've never been a "dab and paintover" painter the way so many people I admire can do — I am just used to relying on pressure sensitivity and blending to get my stuff done, so the tablet has been making getting decent results difficult if I was going the old way... so that's why I've been so slow.
I've tried tweaking the pressure curve profile and even just trying to learn to paint in some other way that doesn't rely on pressure sensitivity at all, but that's part of why I haven't gotten any other work done lately. Cross your fingers (and if you have any tips, send them my way).
xoxo
Hopefully more to come!
http://www.drugs.com/pill_identification.html is an excellent resource.
I also think perhaps it persisted as a problem because I was sleeping for almost a day every 2 days. I was essentially taking a full dose every three days instead of each day, so I worried that the problem was that I was never going to re-build a tolerance.
We do have a few good universities I can take the drugs to, but I want to be sure I'm not overreacting. It seemed to me that the problem came from not taking the meds for over a month, then having such a strong reaction that I avoided taking it every day, which seemed to just prolong the problem. Do you think, professionally, that that's still unlikely?
ODs are incredibly dangerous, and that's what you were taking in all likelihood. This was just not enough to kill you quickly. Remember, you are (most likely) taking a legalized form of amphetamine, AKA meth. It is not something to be cavalier about. The stuff is scary.
Even if you were given the correct med and dose and it was manufactured correctly, if your tolerance had gone down that much it's serious.
Now, since you are alive, sane, able to type and have gotten it to work out, the scary phase where you might die is basically past. You are probably fine, but I've gone through some really terrifying things because of medication mix-ups and heard of far worse. People die every few minutes in the US because of perception medications -- OD, wrong meds, mixing them with each other or alcohol and so on.
I'd still strongly recommend going to the pharmacist about it (they know a lot more about meds that your doc ever dreamed of knowing) or a phone consult with your doc about what happened. I understand not wanting to spend money when it seems sorted out, but please, at least tell your doc what happened so they can change your prescription for next time.
is it alright to break the capsules....? I'm on concerta 36mg and as it's one-a-day sort of medication, breaking the pill is a baaad idea in that case. but I assume you are on something different?
In other words, splitting it open and only taking half with water is just the same as taking a capsule that's half the dosage. Thank you for your concern, though! I definitely didn't want to try it until my husband told me our psych actually recommended doing it often, to keep from building a tolerance.
by the way, I never thanked you properly for commenting on my ADHD post a while ago! so, thank you. :3 feels good to have people around who know what you're going through!
I prefer it to Adderall, anyway... that stuff made me feel totally out of control and I crashed hard off of it. It wasn't worth the benefits at all. :(
And no problem... :) I do get frustrated at the stigma associated with taking them, but... I know that it helps me a great deal and I hope to continue working toward not needing them someday, you know? I understand that a lot of people think ADHD is essentially not a real thing... so I don't get upset when people quirk an eyebrow at me. I do not think medication is for everyone in this case. Really don't. And I'm VERY glad I didn't take it in high school!
I don't think it's necessarily worth calling up a lawyer just yet--I just think I'll go to a different pharmacy... I didn't think about it being an actual "WRONG DOSE" so much as a mis-measure of my actual dose. Now that you guys mention it... yikes.
I can tell from taking only half that it's essentially the same as my husband's dosage... I had assumed at first that I was somehow building like, a backwards-tolerance and was going to just need to drop my dosage or something. Taking only half it's much like one from my husband's prescription… which is a little less than half of my dosage.
I don't know, perhaps I could keep one of these and... I mean, who on earth do you take that to to analyze it? LOL.
Best of luck with the tablet and art =3
If I get too much over several days, I can't think, I have little energy, and I'm consistently crashing; not just tired, but literately dozing off like I had narcoleptic. Driving can be scary! What's even worse. Is I don't understand what's happening, and I keep right on drinking until finally I figure it out.
So don't feel bad, Sounds like your doing the right thing, and I hope your 'little problem' clears up soon.
I hope everything will go fine for you again and I hope the repair of the Cintiq will be easy to handle for you!
Would you be willing to be awesome and link me to your fav artists who use the constant-color selection style?