#Anticonvulsants

[pharmaceutical0]

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[mmmmtuberculosis]

current ratings of anticonvulsants i’ve tried:

lamotrigine: 8/10. stopped fully working but god loves a mood stabilizer and i trust that it has worked. made me very drowsy when adjusting and my mood could get weird (but i was already rapid cycling so whatever). miss peeing tho. (dose: 500mg/day)

keppra: 6.5/10. love a mood stabilizer, love something that worked for like a month or so (but was also increasing lamotrigine at same time) absolutely destabilized my mood when increasing. no keppra rage but i do get tremors. overall a fan tho bc i trust it has had some effect some time. (dose: 3g/day)

clobazam: 4/10. did not like being high all the time (even if it satisfied my cravings for day drinking.) lot of memory loss which made it hard to learn. kinda miss it bc idk (dose: currently off)

lacosamide: 0/10. just made me depressed and shake more. had no effect. booooo. (200mg/day)

cenobamate: 3/10 DONT BE SCARED OF THIS ONE ITS NOT ALWAYS BAD. snapped me out of laco depression, few side effects, actually makes me feel better and more clearheaded. but hasn’t stopped any seizures (25mg/day, just started and not at base dose yet)

ativan: 9/10. am scared of it bc i often hate the intoxication afterwards but is pretty much always effective at stopping seizures. lotta love but a bit of fear and now i can say i have done hallucinogens

holding a bundle of lavender infront of my face: 4/10. is emotionally rewarding and lessens seizure effects.

lamictal, levetiracetam, onfi, vimpat, xcopri, lavendula augustifolia

[firebonbon]

I’m so scared to try out my new dosage aaahhhh

[lemondoddle]

Besides being really bad at lying my favorite way that Jay is a terrible detective is his completely chaotic methods of "organizing" all of the info he collects such as:

adding an extra sentence in the title of entry 15 to clarify what it's about that he doesn't do with any other entry

Stating the current date and time in entry 34 and then also never doing that again

Labeling the tape he steals from Alex's house and showing the camera and you guessed it- this is the only time we see him do this and it's never brought up again

[chicago-geniza]

Today is payday...remind me to hit up the Logan dispensary this weekend, I need Edibles for my Insomnia and Neuropathy and Soon-to-be-Unmedicated Epilepsy lol

[queenbeyondthewalll]

I’ve got an appointment with a movement disorder specialist in like two hours to finally see about the twitch/tic/spasm things that’ve been going on non-stop since 2am on November 1st, 2011, and I am suddenly consumed with such a weird mix of anxiety and hope

[antiadvil]

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[actualbird]

luke illness hc anon here from a while back hfjsjd-

first of all, YAY FOR MORE DEPICTIONS OF LUKE'S ILLNESS!!! secondly, ngl when he started losing his strength on his right arm i most definately went "CALLED IT!!!" but as a luke pearce stan i want to Cry.

// spoilers for tot main story 9

i assume these are two different anons, but i'll answer them both in one go since theyre talking about the same main topic and referencing the same past post!!

@ anon 1: oooooOOHH WAIT R U THE ANON who asked me this question months back for headcanon's on luke's illness? if yes, hi again! and RIGHT RIGHT YESSSS MORE INFORMATION AND ESCALATING SYMPTOMS AND U TOTES CALLED IT. i love it, it's a double edged sword of enjoyment cuz on one hand im so satisfied seeing a progression of his illness finally after it being in limbo for the longest time but...

on the other hand....

.....yeah i wanna cry too KJVAJFHVSKFAKFS

the arm thing was such a nice detail. nerve damage does a Lot and it was very satisfying to see it escalate from pain episodes (i.e. nerves firing the wrong kinda signals) to an entire limb's momentary loss of sensation/motor skills (i.e. nerves just....NOT firing signals at all for a moment)

i mentioned in that previous linked ask that ive also got a neuro condition (not severe just annoying), so more symptoms i'd like to see (or if it doesnt happen in canon, fun for fanfic to play around with) from luke's illness progression would be the following: involuntary movement (i.e. nerves firing the wrong kinda signals but in the motor skills department), nerve issues in other extremities (ive had involuntary movement issues hit one of my legs while sitting and i just spasm'd outta my seat), and nerve problems exacerbated by stress (also common for me, the more freaked i am the more common a bunch of these get....sORRY I REALIZE IM JUST OFFLOADING ALL MY OWN SYMPTOMS ONTO LUKE AHAHAHAA), and troubles with finer motor skills (use of fingers, hands, wrists. luke handles weapons often....whatd happen if his grip strength went awry when hes holding a knife? a gun? many thoughts)

the nervous system is weird and complicated. seeing this new neurodegenerative symptom from luke feels very much like the beginning of more to come. also, luke needs a hug. he needs so many hugs. and more medical treatment thats not just "the strong pill [painkiller]" that luke called aaron for in that one scene, LUKE PLEASE JHDVJFHSD. OTL

@ anon 2: IT'S SO NOT A BAD THING AT ALL IM ALSO RLLY GLAD TO SEE THIS, as i write in the first portion of this response. like, it's not that we Want to see luke in pain and fearing his illness getting worse and worse, it's that the illness has been here since the beginning and it is beyond satisfying to see it no longer be something static, for it to change and affect the story, affect luke's character and how he interacts with others.....

i also totally dont want him magically cured JHVDFJSDVFK like, with how much Worse it's gotten, his recovery has to take into account how hard the journey has been thus far, both narratively and medically. i uh. um. [VERY VERY VAGUE SPOILERS FOR CN SERVER AHEAD but] i saw a spoiler from future main story 12 that definitely shows that luke is not magically cured at that point and is getting worse

so, HELL YEAH, BIG WIN FOR PEOPLE WHO WANNA SEE THIS PROGRESS!! but also //loud sobbing

huge HUGE agree that luke's illness and chronic symptoms are nice to see from a representation perspective. when the arm thing happened while i was playing i was first like "OMG WE'RE TWINNING!!!" and then i was like "OH NO" jashfvKJHVKJHK

my hopes for luke's illness eventually becoming a have-to-longterm-manage-this-for-the-rest-of-his-life-but-it-wont-kill-him chronic condition is still very true. it's something i have a lot of feelings about

//holds luke gently....

[jaws-and-canines]

How could you cope with knowing it was your fault? Surely, then, the agonies of your delusions were more comfortable than knowing you would never be punished to the degree you deserved for letting her die? - "But for God's sake, for the sake of all that you love, don't bring my daughter into this. I'll kill you. I've got nothing to lose anymore. She's all I have left."

[thefabelmans2022]

tried to get my medication today because i ran out of it and they refused to give it to me because they said the last time they dispensed it was ten months ago despite the fact that like i said i JUST ran out and i literally take it twice a day............so what the fuck is that about.

[sapphicautistic]

i could handle the intestinal cramping for a couple days but it's been a WHILE now and i am getting increasingly whiny about it

[chicago-geniza]

It's so funny that since I started having pretty regular psychosis-adjacent problems via temporal lobe epilepsy I now get too scared to watch Star Trek Psychological Horror Episodes lmao

[ribbitflings]

when you take an AED because you feel like garbage and hope maybe itll help prevent the seizures youre about to have, but then go into nonconvulsive status and apparently repeatedly needed cpr because you wouldnt start breathing and you know it was made worse because you took the AED

[forcebookish]

went to take a nap at 7pm.... set my alarm for 8pm to take my meds.... woke up ten hours later........

did I turn off my alarm? did I never set it? did I sleep through it? the world may never know

[mtndewbajablast]

finally. have an appointment for mri it’s only taken like 5 weeks

[blakelywintersfield]

Not wanting people to smoke weed indoors because recovering addicts may be in the crowd (or on stage); not wanting people to smoke indoors because it can interact with other people's medications and be lethally compromising (see: CNS meds, anticonvulsants); not wanting people to smoke weed indoors because people on parole who are forced to take drug screenings may be in the crowd; not wanting people to smoke weed indoors because some states require people with chronic pain disorders to take drug screenings in order to continue receiving their medication. These are all good reasons to want people not to smoke indoors.

But this? This is just being a bitch, especially when your addition to it is "I wanted to be a snitch sooooo bad but I don't want to look like a poser." (You already do.)

Just fuckin ask people (nicely) not to smoke around you. Most people are courteous enough that they'll gladly step outside, or go for an edible instead. And those that aren't are at a show, and that's where you really don't want to fuck around and find out 'cause it's often a "he said/she said" if you get elbowed in the face for being a dick. If your desire is to call the cops, you're more annoying than the people who don't consider how their drug use can effect others.

oh my god