#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

[doorlampwrites]

Whumpee who has a seizure disorder and Whumper who gets really uncomfortable seeing seizures. Whumper who's just starting out with this whole whumping business and isn’t ready to kill someone yet but they can't just let them go! They'd call the cops!

So Whumper is stuck with a Whumpee they’re afraid to do anything to because they don't want a trigger a seizure. And Whumpee starts to realize they might have an upper hand here, because something that's a normal occurrence to them has changed Whumper's plans. They probably can't use it to get out, but they could bargain for ice cream. Or maybe just scare Whumper a bit

[antiadvil]

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[straydogged]

I'M BACK IN THE ER. LIKE A WEEK LATER.

[goldenspirits]

i wasnt anon but im curious too, please tell us about your near death experience

Alrightie!

I attempted suicide, overdose, and almost had a seizure.

I think I /did/ have a seizure. I just didn't seek medical help.

I was tripping balls, basically, whole skin felt like stactic, if you know a thing or two about seizures, that's a sign. Nothing felt real. My brain convinced was in a coma at the hospital, I thought the only way to wake up from the coma was dying, so I tried to jump from the balcony, although I was stopped.

Sometimes it felt like the 'coma world' was like sweeter and kinder than my usual life, because my parents seemed... Worried about me, more than usual, (If you know a thing or two about my parents, you know they are pretty abusive, and lowkey neglectful), but I thought was all a façade, because, in my hallucination state, my parents were fleshy, shapeshifting, lumpy monsters (I think it's because my mom didnt believe I tried to commit suicide, even though in my tripping balls state I told her I had attempted to. She just didn't believe me, thought I just had a tummy ache, and tried to gaslight me I had just dreamt I tried that. Thanks mom.) I assumed I was in a coma because I /Knew/ I had attempted, so I assumed my mom was just my brain trying to make it seem less painful, I assumed my mom lying was just my brain trying to make reality more acceptable and less horrifying. But I still assumed she had /evil/ intentions, therefore, lumpy flesh shapeshifting monster. (Possibly a metaphor for abuse.)

And while I was lying down on bed and I felt like most my organs stopped working. I was just lungs and a brain. Until I felt like I was just a tiny particle, just a tiny speck of light, roaming some galactic-dark-blue-halls and I met some entities there, cloaked figures, and they explained to me that if I wanted to die, I'd have to let myself fade away.

So I tried.

So with my eyes closed I saw this entire network of lights, like a whole city. That was my brain, those were my neurons, braincells, whatever you want to call them. They would slowly fade out outside-in, as in, they started turning off from the corners of my vision and would close in to the middle, and I'd have to let them all turn off to die. So I tried.

But every time all the lights were almost all off I'd see flashes of my Cats and someone really important to me and I'd jerk back awake, making all the lights turn back on. When you're almost dying, your survival instincts kick in. That was basically it.

After 12 hours of tripping balls and being convinced the world was trying to kill me while I was in a coma, I snapped out of it. I was like from 9pm to 9am high as a G6 and didn't sleep one bit. I felt like I had learned more about the world, though. Surprisingly.

[tomacel]

can someone else make this but Better. there is something so scary abt the heroine's situation interpreted as a time loop like Ukyo's...

[77pupu33pipo]

ive got another weeping migraine.. o chronic pain meds am i a joke to you :(

[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....

[murderballadeer]

oof ouch my head

[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."

[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

[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.