Medication

[Savage12345]

Apart from antidepressants, has anyone's doctor given them any medication to take which has helped their quality of life ?

[Kirk5w7]

Nothing at all!!!! Janet xx

[iforget]

No but I would not want more meds to be honest...

[barny1]

Nothing besides an antidepressant. Something called 'modafinil' was being touted as a cognitive enhancer and fatigue suppressor, but I've never been offered it and don't know anyone who has.

[iforget]

Oh should perhaps add that I was never given antidepressants either...and never saw the need for them really.

[barny1 in reply to iforget]

If you never saw the need for them, you probably didn't need them.

[iforget in reply to barny1]

Nope I didn't...but I totally get why some people do... I just realised that it said "apart from Anti depressants" which I thought implied the use of them and so added that last bit...

I believe that the extent of my memory issues prevents me from getting depressed...because I do have my deep dark moments every now and then and it is crushing while it happens...but then it is gone. Its probably the one BI gift that I will take with good grace.

[Hidden]

Xanax and alprazolam = great for when brain just WON'T shut up coz been overloaded = then get VERY low, exhausted and fretting/anxious. Don't like taking any tabs but must.

Zolpidem used to work really well but then after was given different sorts which don't work at all = very odd.

Zopiclone works quite well for sleep, different makes seem to be bit different - or maybe it's me - coz I change lots and so do external things, I respond (of course) to them/environment+.

Noctamide used to work now don't, different formulation or what? My mega stress now?

Valium is the TOP for muscle twitches = as I got when bedroom far too hot (right foot/leg). And Valium is the BEST when in complete overload meltdown overtired stressed = suicidal. Calms me right down and usually sends me to sleep. Then feel bit better/stronger (and less exhausted) to carry on,not end it.

They say we must push ourselves to improve brain, yes but not TOO MUCH coz that undoes all the work and pay for it for days (often) after = we SHOULDN'T!

None of the pain killers are any good coz all the strong ones constipate me so I stick to paracetamol.

And the 'muscle relaxants' don't work at all.

I think removing STRESS and OVERLOAD would be the greatest helpers for us = NOT tablets!

Sadly the world isn't set up for us and how we are so we have to use meds to cope with it/overload.

Peace, sunshine, nature, quiet and REST and good food are to me the BEST cognitive enhancers. As is a safe secure place to live, enough money to eat well and pay all the bills and NO threats from bailiffs or bills = that'd be good treatments.

Shame it isn't the other way round: they medicate the people who make us fall to bits = including (for me) all those who make SO much noise and create ridiculous systems and forms that don't fit me AT ALL. Bit of medication might shut them up and make them more reasonable?!

[Michael_e]

Gabapentin and zopiclone have both been a godsend although I only need a zopiclone (sleeping pill) once in a ble moon now and I have cut the gabapentin to one 300mg capsule/day.

[Kirk5w7]

I'll just add I use anti histamine to help me sleep when I need to, piriton, I only take a quarter of one, with the blessing of the consultant I had at the rehab unit, they are not habit forming and I'm not dopey when I wake.

Janet xx

[Savage12345]

I feel that my sleep i also an issue, plus i have been having nightmares about my situation which is making me feel awful , i cant even get away from it in my sleep which is fustrating