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Posted by rainy on October 22, 2004, at 13:24:42
In reply to Re: Re being bipolar II, Civil and on Topamax » rainy, posted by iris2 on October 22, 2004, at 12:47:47
OK, here is a seriously dumb question. Where do I find my profile to babble it? And Stressee, do you want to do this? I assume it means we can still post on the board. (Yes, sure, I'd like to Irene.)
rainy
Posted by Stressee on October 22, 2004, at 13:27:45
In reply to Re: Re being bipolar II, Civil and on Topamax » iris2, posted by rainy on October 22, 2004, at 13:24:42
I'm assuming we're both on here at the same time. I just figured out how to get babble mail, so that's done, I hope. I would love to do it, so please let me know if it doesn't work for you. This is open to the entire group, I will be happy to hear from you. -L
Posted by Stressee on October 22, 2004, at 13:29:19
In reply to Re: Re being bipolar II, Civil and on Topamax » rainy, posted by iris2 on October 22, 2004, at 12:47:47
Kat, I haven't seen any posting from you and am wondering if you are ok? -L
Posted by Stressee on October 22, 2004, at 13:33:56
In reply to bipolar and antidepressants, posted by rainy on October 22, 2004, at 12:41:35
Rainy, you have to go back to the registration and update it. They will then send you back a password to confirm the update,and you should be good -to- go. -L
Posted by rainy on October 22, 2004, at 13:38:06
In reply to Are you OK, Kat?, posted by Stressee on October 22, 2004, at 13:29:19
Yeah, I've been wondering about that, too. You seem to be really quiet.
Also, after having seen my profile four times too many today, I can't get the danged thing up again. And Iris, I wrote you a message, but you aint on! try try again. You next, stressee.
Nothing about topamax here.
rainy
Posted by rainy on October 22, 2004, at 13:49:13
In reply to Re: Are you OK, Kat? » Stressee, posted by rainy on October 22, 2004, at 13:38:06
Gaaaaaa!!!! I don't know how to do it. I can't get anybody's name to turn blue. I can't find my stupid profile. I have to go pick up some books. Maybe it'll be better when I get home. This #$%@#.
rainy
Posted by iris2 on October 22, 2004, at 13:56:39
In reply to Re: Re being bipolar II, Civil and on Topamax » iris2, posted by rainy on October 22, 2004, at 13:24:42
Did not sound thrilled about exchanging emails about eating disorder. Don't worry if your not interested, I will not take it personally.
Okay don't say I never did anything for you. I did the whole process to make sure I knew what I was talking about before I put my foot in mouth.
Here it is:
Go to register-go to update registration- update your registration in any way you want or do not change anything-when you get to the question about do you want "babblemail" click yes- in less than a minute you will recieve an email with your new registration number-click on the link in the email and fill in the confirmation number with your posting name and password- you can now babblemail and post on psycho-babble.irene
Posted by iris2 on October 22, 2004, at 14:24:01
In reply to Re: Are you OK, Kat?, posted by rainy on October 22, 2004, at 13:49:13
Okay, I see I wrote my post after you frustration. I think it will help you though. When you register or update your registration which is on the Psycho-Babble page below the Amazon.com link the fourth row down first word. Click register then update registration and you get to the update page. There is the word "Babblemail" and two circles next to it. One says no the other yes. Click yes. You now have babble mail. If you want to try it first go to one of my posts and click on my name which should be in blue. )Unless you have to have it first)You can babblemail me and I will post that I recieved it.
irene
Posted by bridgey1128 on October 22, 2004, at 14:25:44
In reply to Re: Are you OK, Kat? » rainy, posted by iris2 on October 22, 2004, at 14:24:01
Who has been on Topomax since 1992? I thought it had only been around since 97?
Posted by headachequeen on October 22, 2004, at 14:34:14
In reply to Are you OK, Kat?, posted by Stressee on October 22, 2004, at 13:29:19
> Kat, I haven't seen any posting from you and am wondering if you are ok? -L
Hi L!!
I am just now catching up on e-mail... and what a mass of it there is... why do people think I want to read the latest joke(??) going the rounds of their offices... sometimes it is barely even funny... and there are so many of them...Thank you so much for caring... it really matters...
I am trying so hard to beat this and I am going to beat it... just not today I guess... and knowing that you and the others are out there really means a lot...
I have been in a mass of these wretched seizures... now if only I could send them in a series of e-mails to people.. wouldn't that be hilarious?
The dry mouth and the constant feeling of numbness in my mouth and in my lips... and the constant lip-licking... I may have no lips left when this is over...
and the sense of being in some sort of balloon that will not open and let me out...
I am really tired of this nonsense. I do not know how people who suffer the really hard epilepsy with the strong seizures bear it. They have my sympathy, believe me. I have been unable to read all day and most of yesterday and I am ready to whine to anyone who will listen.
Walking is an experience, believe me...
I read or heard some where that lip-licking is a sign of alcoholism -- well, with the constant lip-licking that I am unable to control and the staggering walk, I am sure that people here think I am a knock-down staggering drunk and should check into a clinic...
and the speech slurring... oh, that must convince them... I can hear them now as they mutter when I stagger past or as they walk past me as I try to stand upright, but sway from side to side (my balance is shot!)...
Then we have the speech itself as I try to put words together properly and come out with words that are really not words but parodies of words...
digraphs especially become switched... th is misplaced all the time... as is ph and so on...and awayyyyyy we go...
I am so tired all the time...
this is not fun... if it were not for the fact that I have lost two pounds I think I would simply start throwing things...
and may still do so...
I am angry ... we can put a man on the moon.. and all that stuff... then why can I not conquer this epilepsy ????meanwhule I am going to read all the posts to psychobabble now... and probabluy post to most...
be prepared for some grouchy ones because I am shaky and grouchy in my balloon...
can barely read and am forced to reread everything... but I shall get tehre...
kat
Posted by headachequeen on October 22, 2004, at 14:38:18
In reply to Re:laundry and fish, posted by bridgey1128 on October 18, 2004, at 16:35:34
> OK that's what I thought but I wasn't sure. If it increases past the nighttime dosage then I would need to increase THAT dosage. Like if I got up to 225mg I would take 125mg at night and 100mg in the morning to make sure the highest dosage is always at night, correct? I thought that is what you meant but I wasn't sure.
According to the neorologists who have been treating me and one of them is the guy who did all the testing start at night then when the high night dose is reached work on the morning dose so you have it figured out...
it seems odd to me that a neurologist would figure out the weight part or work on weight tests but what the hevk whatever works I guess
kat
Posted by headachequeen on October 22, 2004, at 14:53:45
In reply to topamax and tegretol, posted by rainy on October 22, 2004, at 9:58:13
> Kat, how are you feeling?
> rainyI think I just answered this one... in excessive detail... :(
the tegretol is now back up to 1000 mg as of Wednesday... I have an appointment with an opthamologist in a week to see if it is doing any damage to my eyes...
and have to have blood tests every few weeks to see if I still have blood or something...
they know that there will be too much of it in my blood but it is enough to keep the seizures under contril I hope... vertainly better than before...
so now we go on for a week and then the next increase and hope for stability...
hope and then some...
out of curiosity is anyone else out there on topomax for seizures???
kat
Posted by iris2 on October 22, 2004, at 15:02:12
In reply to Re: Are you OK, Kat? » Stressee, posted by headachequeen on October 22, 2004, at 14:34:14
I read you have seizurses but do you have epilepsy? I do not know I might have already suggested this but have you looked into Vagus Nerve Stimulation or VNS? Sorry about the seizures. I have never had them but have seen other people go through them. Do not know about yours but they can be he**.
By the way I used to lick my lips all the time and sometimes still find myself doing it. My boyfriend a long time ago thought it was sexy! So don't worry about it.
irene
Posted by headachequeen on October 22, 2004, at 15:19:37
In reply to Re: Are you OK, Kat? » headachequeen, posted by iris2 on October 22, 2004, at 15:02:12
> I read you have seizurses but do you have epilepsy? I do not know I might have already suggested this but have you looked into Vagus Nerve Stimulation or VNS? Sorry about the seizures. I have never had them but have seen other people go through them. Do not know about yours but they can be he**.
>
> By the way I used to lick my lips all the time and sometimes still find myself doing it. My boyfriend a long time ago thought it was sexy! So don't worry about it.
>
> irene
I am an epileptic and for years had nocturnal seizures which wre something I could manage...
now, since the latest test, this telemetry thing an eeg with a television camera in which they do their darnedest to cause seizures during the day so they can see what happens in your brain and body during one while you sleep (you have been awake for 24 hours before-hand), I have started the pleaseure of daytime seizures with some nocturnal seizures thrown in for seasoning...
never knowing what to expect is such fun...
adds excitement to my day...
means I can not go out on my own as I could walk out in front of a truck because in the midst of a seizure I do not know what I am doing... it is sort of a walking coma...
sometimes I am totally comatose others I am more in a vagueness that I am unable to describe...
life is really not fun...lip-licking can be sexy.. we encourage it when photographing brides and such... but constant non-stop, no, it is anything but... and I really think I am wearing away layers and layers of skin...
the various companies that manufacture the products that protect the lips from weather are making a fortune... wish they would make a diabetic chocolate-flavoured one...
kat
Posted by headachequeen on October 22, 2004, at 15:19:57
In reply to Re: Topomax and bipolar II, posted by Stressee on October 20, 2004, at 7:59:59
> If you or anyone can remember, how did you feel on 200 mg per day? M is taking it, and is on 75mg am and 50 pm until later then she goes up 25mg in the pm. I did it backwards, I know!! She says she has had ringing in her ears for around 24 hrs. Is that normal? No other side-effects except the tingling. No decrease in appetite, but I think it is starting to help the binging. She says it is, but who know with a 16 yr. old. I can tell you I'm like a Jykle and Hyde, and I don't have Bipolar II that I know of. I am going to ask to be switched off my wellbutrin, because I don't think it works all that well. As for eating, everyone, it seems lately that if I see it, I'm going to eat it. I started trying to eat "healthfully" yesterday, and I hate it. UG!!! I work at a fitness center and I came to the conclusion that I should practice what I preach. Right? Keep telling me that PLEASE. -L
Wellbutrin from personal experioence is useless... and I found out in increases seizures too... of course it can cause them too...
the fact that she started the meds backwards so to speak and I do speak backwards these days :) may cause the thing to work backwards
by now it should be helping the weight...
although if it helps the binging then that will help the weight too...
if there is ringing in the ears then do not go up for a while...
kat
Posted by Stressee on October 22, 2004, at 15:51:36
In reply to Re: bipolar and antidepressants, posted by Stressee on October 22, 2004, at 13:33:56
I can't get the babble mail to work for me!!! I did everything just like it was suggested. &#$@#$#$!!! -L
Posted by Stressee on October 22, 2004, at 16:10:47
In reply to Re: bipolar and antidepressants, posted by Stressee on October 22, 2004, at 15:51:36
ok everyone, now I am ticked off!!!!! I have gone in and clicked babble mail on three times now. Put in my confermation number three times, and it still won't work. I'm giving up. Let me know if there's something else I can do. Another idea maybe? -L
Posted by rainy on October 22, 2004, at 18:23:54
In reply to Re: Re being bipolar II, Civil and on Topamax » rainy, posted by iris2 on October 22, 2004, at 13:56:39
Hey, I'm thrilled, well pleased, just inept. Good faith, Good faith. Criminy, look at how this technology is apparenly eluding us.
Part of the stupids is that I can't compute the directions. I guess I'll have to write them down to read while I do them because I can't remember them and they don't make sense--it's like I'm reading German or something. Go to registation, yes. I've registered three times today. And I did manage to turn your name blue, Iris, and write you a message, but becuse the recipient was closed it wouldn't work. Then when I clicked on babble mouth or what ever it is on my name/password scroll, it kept saying, sorry, closed. And now apparently you guys are having a hard time.
And Kat, I read with great interest about your situation and came back to this one as if I were on a rubber band. The sleep deprivation sounds like pure hell--how do you manage to keep yourself awake and are you off all meds during this "unpleasantness?" Of course, they take their coffee breaks while they write you up, and their naps while you lie awake.
rainy.
Posted by redscarlet on October 22, 2004, at 19:03:27
In reply to Re: Are you OK, Kat? » Stressee, posted by headachequeen on October 22, 2004, at 14:34:14
Lip licking can be a side effect from medication. You may want to let your doctor know that this is happening.
Hope you feel better soon... :-)
Posted by headachequeen on October 22, 2004, at 19:04:21
In reply to Re: Re being bipolar II, Civil and on Topamax » iris2, posted by rainy on October 22, 2004, at 18:23:54
> And Kat, I read with great interest about your situation and came back to this one as if I were on a rubber band. The sleep deprivation sounds like pure hell--how do you manage to keep yourself awake and are you off all meds during this "unpleasantness?" Of course, they take their coffee breaks while they write you up, and their naps while you lie awake.
> rainy.
Rainy, the idea was to stay awake the 24 hours before the test then sleep through the six or so hours of the test... and no coffee or soft drinks, no chocolate or other stimulants during the 24 hours prior to the test...
well, now, ask anyone who has ever worked with me, I do not do well without coffee, although I am discovering that it is advisable for people on tegritol, or is that people with epilepsy (I tend to mix the two)?, to avoid caffeine...
at any rate, I managed to suffer through the 24 hours until the drive into Ottawa... and then my husband forgot that he should keep me awake for the drive and I found myself drowsing and I was terrified that I would not be able to go to sleep for the test as when I am tired a very brief nap, even five minutes, will revitalise me for a while...
that was really torture until I found myself wakening around noon and realised that I must have fallen asleep and the tech said I had been asleep for three hours or more...
then I dozed off again...
it was such relief...
I had this fear of having to go through it all again...
and this was the second time of doing the sleep-deprived eeg except the first time was without the telemetry bit and only for about 45 minutes of testing...
now, why not be sensible and do the whole test in the first place???
I know. they have to keep people in work, so they do all these tests separately and who cares how many people are tortured...
the test itself induced seizures... I was awaked during one and that was really an experience I do not care to repeat... so here I am repeating the experience repeatedly... arrgghhh
and lying there trying to go back to sleep as the techs are having their coffee breaks and chatting and having lunch and and and and...I swear I will never do it again....
never
kat
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Posted by headachequeen on October 22, 2004, at 19:20:09
In reply to Re: Are you OK, Kat?, posted by redscarlet on October 22, 2004, at 19:03:27
> Lip licking can be a side effect from medication. You may want to let your doctor know that this is happening.
> Hope you feel better soon... :-)hmmmm I see my GP on Monday and shall tell him about it... I have visions of wearing my lips down to the skeleton by Hallowe'en and fitting right in!!!!
Thanks for the information...See what I mean about this place?? there is so much help to be found here...
and we need each and every person to contribute and take part...
That's not an invitation, by the way...
that's an order, folks <G>
kat the control freak
Posted by Stressee on October 22, 2004, at 20:33:55
In reply to Re: Are you OK, Kat? » redscarlet, posted by headachequeen on October 22, 2004, at 19:20:09
Wait a minute, I'm the control freak!
Kat, I hope you are feeling better. How awful for you to have to go through that. I knew something was going on.....
Rainy, I'm that way with directions and I'm not on Topamax. Isn't that scary? -L
Posted by iris2 on October 22, 2004, at 20:38:43
In reply to Re: Re being bipolar II, Civil and on Topamax » iris2, posted by rainy on October 22, 2004, at 18:23:54
Just wanted to say I already had my registration set to use babbblemail so I realy did not have to change anything. But someone babblemailed me not too long ago and it worked.
irene
Posted by Stressee on October 22, 2004, at 20:48:24
In reply to Re: Re being bipolar II, Civil and on Topamax » rainy, posted by iris2 on October 22, 2004, at 20:38:43
This is really getting to me.....I tried for the fourth time, yessssss, and it didn't work. I'm obsessed now and am determined to get this done. Hand in there for me. But, in the mean time, I guess we'll just have to keep posting. Maybe we could try the physcology board? -L
Posted by Dr. Bob on October 22, 2004, at 22:56:26
In reply to Re: please be civil, posted by bridgey1128 on October 22, 2004, at 9:03:33
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