Life With Boys

Since I’ve chronicled so much of my battle so far I thought I’d give you an update. We’ve been playing musical meds since my “incident” with Lamictal in March. I’ve exhausted all serotonin drugs so my Doc and I decided to try the drug family first introduced in the 1960s — which do work on depression and have well documented side effects — irritability, moodiness and weight gain. I thought I could live with them, but when I gained 20 pounds in one month I had to get off.

Unfortunately switching back does not mean the weight just goes way — so starting at eh beginning of the year I’ll make the same resolution as everyone else on the planet and try to work it off — again.

Mentally speaking I’m doing fair. This has been a tough time of year so it’s hard to know how much is drug related or other. At least I’m not biting everyone’s head off all the time now (just some of it.)

There are advances being made all the time and I’m excited to see if the combo I need will be approved in the near future — so does Matt.