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Old 10-05-2015, 01:08 PM
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Don't worry BF, I know plenty about bed sores... I worked as a CNA in hospitals for years (was also a nursing student) and helped treat bed sores as bad as most pictures found on the internet.
It's a small stage one, my skin is intact. Fortunately, I'm mobile enough to stay off of it. And I'll use a barrier cream to protect the skin. It should go away soon.
Enough about that... Gross.

I think my body has adjusted to the 400mg dose of Gabapentin I'm not waking up feeling sedated. Sometimes with the anti-anxiety meds I feel sedation, but the rest of what I'm dealing with is just baseline. I realize the rise and fall of my cognitive problems and fatigue aren't due to meds now, it's probably just the MS and anxiety.

I tried the 50mg of Seroquel. It causes a tolerable level of sedation, was fairly effective the first time, but doesn't last as long for anxiety as I thought it would. I guess it makes a little sense, since the pm dose never carried over to the am and I had to take prns to treat my hypomania.

I had an appointment with my pdoc this morning. I took the 50mg of Seroquel. My cab was a half an hour late, so I was 10min late for my appointment. Pdoc got to see how effective the Seroquel was today lol. I freaked out. I was a mess.
1.5mg of Klonopin works the best, the longest. My anxiety is at it's height in the morning, I'll take it then. I can take up to 3mg a day, but I doubt I'll get up to that. If the Klonopin isn't enough for my am anxiety, I'll throw some Seroquel at it.
I took a Klonopin when I got home, so I'm a little sedated, but it's for a good cause.

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