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….
Duloxetine seems like quite a goood drug in general. The side effects are not too bad; I’ve had mild constipation, dizziness on standing, and occasional nausea. Another thing worth noting is that it does affect people’s sleep patterns – I need to take it in the morning to prevent it making me an insomniac. [...]
My first year exam results came through yesterday, for the exams I did in June, and I got
Proteins and Enzymes: A
Molecular Cell Biology: B
Molecular Biology: A
Needless to say I’m happy.
This is a kind of plea for help I guess.
I want to reorganise the way this blog is structured. Basically, what I want is three main sections, with links to each displayed in my title bar, with an indication of which one you’re currently visiting. The sections will be my blog, my depression related pages, [...]
Yep, yet another new drug. I am actually starting to sound like a monopolar depression drug dictionary, so they’re trying me on one for bipolar depression. Originally used as an anticonvulsant, carbamazepine also has a very good record as a mood stabiliser, especially for people described as “rapid cyclers” (more than 2 cycles of depression [...]
Just a quick post to explain my absence from these pages. I had 3 exams in June, which took quite a lot of work. There was also the End of Year Ball, (see flickr for the photos), and then the process of moving out. And since then, I’ve been working back at Coopers, dealing with [...]