I am now off quetiapine completely!And I feel grrrrrreat!!!!I hate taking pills at the best of times but those muthas were not my cup of tea at all. I met with Moonstone this morning. She asked with a suspicious look in her eye if I was still taking them and I said yes... well up until this morning anyway. She said I'd done well to persist and taper them off gradually and then she agreed to stop them completely. Yabadabadoo!!!!!!I don't know if it's been with my cold or the reduction in quetiapine but there has been a big change in me physically. The other day I suddenly noticed I could once again cross my legs... I had a look under my trousers and saw my shinbones... hadn't seen them for months! There's always been about an inch of oedema over them. All the oedema has gone. I dashed to...
On Sunday we did lunch with the internet people… *cue scary theme music*....”DA DA DA!!!”.My fears of meeting a group of psychos were unfounded, they were two lovely, normal couples who chatted away fine and it all went well. It was only afterwards I realised the irony of it. It never occurred to me for one second that I was the psycho that they were coming to meet and I had a bloody cheek thinking that they might be the nutters. Isn’t that weird?My level of insight into my illness/personality is very hard to explain. Certainly at the moment I consider myself completely normal, albeit with one or two minor issues that need resolved. But were I reviewing someone else with all my history and behaviours I might think differently, well I know I would. I just can’t accept or come to...
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Over the past couple of weeks I've remained drowsy, dry mouthed and fuzzy headed. I'm still sleeping too much and of course constantly hungry and stuffing my face. I look like an elephant seal waiting on my next fish.One thing I suppose that is positive is that my alcohol intake has decreased. After I take my meds at 10pm I have a couple of drinks and then feel sleepy and fall into zombie mode before bed. Another positive thing is that I've not been as anxious about the approaching holiday as I would normally be. I've also had the odd palpitation and occassional constipation. All of the aforementioned features are due to Quetiapine (Seroquel). How has it affected my mood? Well I haven't got much idea because I don't really have a sense of mood nowadays, invariably I feel flat and...
I went to bed on Friday afternoon and have spent much of the time since sleeping. I was really taken aback at the pirate fucking me about again and still a bit shell shocked by his kick in the arse farewell. We had a family get together on Saturday night which I managed to attend and play the clown at. Other than that I've felt very distant and detached. My brain feels toxic and a bit bewildered.Well today was D-Day... the day I got to meet Dr X, my new shrink. My wife is on holiday this week so she came along with me. We arrived at the health centre just in time to meet an elderly, breathless man cursing and wheezing as he shuffled out, telling us in gasps how he had waited for 45 minutes and could wait no longer. I heard him give a similar spiel to the cold, robotic receptionists. They...
