While we got answers as to what was causing my brain fog, we have new questions regarding new physical symptoms I’m experiencing.
Tag Archives: medication
Personal Update – Coming Down into Muggy Fog
After being put on Vraylar with an increase in my lithium dose and a reduction in Lamictal, I’m experiencing severe brain fog that affected my ability to navigate in an unfamiliar city.
Personal Update – Hypomanic
Here is a brief summary of my latest mental health episode–hypomania.
Personal Update – Cause and Effect
Updates on my nephrologist visits, symptoms/side effects related (or not) to my lithium dose, vague details on my personal life since being cast aside by my ex-guy, and some fretting about a Seattle trip and my PTSD.
Personal Update – The Fallout
“My guy” is no longer my guy. The lithium reduction has had an effect on my side effect symptoms, and I express some self-deprecation and discouragement about myself as a person.
Personal Update – Lithium Toxicity
The latest personal update is on a recent medication change due to lithium toxicity–it covers my side effects and how the medication change has affected them.
Personal Update – Antipsychotic Change
My PCP suspects I may have developed sleep apnea at some point, and this has caused my psychiatrist to change up my antipsychotic, which acts somewhat as a sedative for me. What will happen next is a mystery…
