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Posted by ace on July 18, 2003, at 1:46:04
Well today I decreased my dose of Zyprexa from 7.5mg to 5mg due to memory probs.
Everything was fine until about 12pm. I noticed I started to feel reall agitated, anxious. Oh my goodness! It's akathisia! It's akathisia! I scream! I am suffering emergent akathisia from lowering the dose, just when it was working so great. The jittery feeling continued for a couple of hours. Now I'm going to have to try crappy Clonidine. It's not fair I said. The derealization/anxiety was almost 100% gone. Things got worse: "what happens if this 'akathisia' never goes away??" I was about to see my doctor all in a huff.
Well, guess what: it went away. But gues what my last 6 meals had been in the last 12 hours- I had this for breakfast and lunch just before the 'akathisia' showed: Ice cream with sugar and porridge. Now I'm not talking an ordinary serve of Ice cream. I went through a bucket last night and this morning! With sugar on top of porridge too!
Now guess what all this excess sugar does to me (and a lot of others): it hypes you up, gets you jittery, anxious, and makes you want to move (even when your moving)
I've actually had the same feeling a few times in the past when I've overdosed on sugar! Wasn't on any med then!
So, this is what happens when your self-absorbed like myself, and most of us here. It's not that we are bad people loving ourselves, it is the fact that we are very sensitive to our goings on.
I made a disaster out of nothing. They say when you die most of the fears you envisioned never happened- almost all!
The antidote to this self-absorbtion is , I think, to look for the good in everything, and cultivate a sense of being blessed for being alive. Of course easier said than done when your not in remmision. But when the right med kicks in give it a try- I certainly have to keep practicing!
Ace.
Posted by bampf on July 18, 2003, at 6:33:56
In reply to Funny Zyprexa story- Lesson for us all..., posted by ace on July 18, 2003, at 1:46:04
I'm right along with ya. I myself have been slowly learning the extent to which my own self-absorption creates my own private little hell. But, fortunately this has forced me to learn ways of psychologically adapting by focusing my attention and awareness on the existence of things that are not necessarily "catastrophic." But every now and again I sort of forget how to do this!! and I have to be reminded, always with a comical sense of feeling like a schmuck (is that how you spell that word)?
Posted by crazychickuk on July 19, 2003, at 9:57:54
In reply to Re: Funny Zyprexa story- Lesson for us all..., posted by bampf on July 18, 2003, at 6:33:56
madness, i too experinece a hype when i have taken alot of sugar.. and i can not calm myself..
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