Edronax plus Lithium is not a friendly combination. They combine to give you much worse side effects than the two taken separately. Most of them I can cope with, but not with the daily headaches, which don’t respond to paracetamol. And no, I can’t try ibuprofen, as Lithium prevents you taking any non-steroidal anti-inflamatory pain [...]
Thank goodness for holidays! My Easter Holiday starts today, since I’ve just sat my Ethics exam. (They make us do a humanity in our second year). It was horrible, but at least I don’t have to resit it if I fail – I can still pass the year.
I got my MBII exam back a few [...]
Yeah, I know I’m late with this, but I figured I should catch up.
Four jobs I’ve had in my life
Baby Sitter – I only include this because I couldn’t find a 4th
Some kind of IT lackey at my Dad’s company when I was 16 – I installed ghost images onto people’s computers, and wiped a [...]
This is something I have been thinking about for some time. What are blogs supposed to be for, and who makes the rules?
I was first given a “column” on studentssocial, back when people visited, and it was just a place for me to write something interesting, for our group of friends. When I became [...]
As of yesterday, JoBlog is now available at www.joanslow.com (my name, for those of you who found this without knowing me!). Hopefully this will be much more memorable, and will encourage you all to visit!
Please update bookmarks etc, because although the old address will continue working for a while, it will stop at some [...]
When I first became depressed, I took pains to hide my feelings from everyone, including my family and close friends, not out of shame, but because I didn’t want to worry them. Then, when I was finally diagnosed with depression, the number of negative responses I got meant that I tried to keep it [...]
My first blood test on Lithium came back ok. My blood lithium level was 0.35 (when 0.5-1.0 is where we’re aiming for), and we checked everything else, like thyroid and kidney function, which were also fine.
So now I’m up to 600mg daliy, before my next blood test on Thursday. This could get boring very quickly….