I thought I'd lighten things up a little about the zombie meds.
I recently went to wash my hands - no problem. Except two hours later I went back and the water was still running. How could I not notice the water was still running when I left the bathroom?
Now if I could just remember some of the other stupid things that the zombie meds made me do. Hmmmmm
I did peel a banana once and threw the banana in the bin instead of the skin. I've double dosed many times because I had forgotten I had already taken my meds. I write it all down now with the time noted.
Some years ago while inadvertently double dosed, as I was driving home I was seeeing double, if I had stopped, the cops would have arrested me so I kept driving, it was quite scary following the 'two cars'' in front of me ! I'll never do it again
I went to the store got out of my car and started walking to the door when I realized the car was still running and the car door was still open.
I love zombies but never thought I would become one. We sure are different from the hungry ones in the “Walking Dead” series. I too have been out driving and thought a sign said Stop but it didn’t. I stopped. However the best one was a few years ago when I was still trying to fool myself that I could work and do 12 hour shifts. I came home and had to take my dogs to be groomed. They were both singing away in my ear. They were very annoying. I came to an intersection wherein I turned left. However it was a divided road with a median and I went I to the lane facing oncoming traffic. Fortunately for me there were no vehicles but the best part was there was a cop who had pulled over a car for speeding. Thai story gets better because I knew the officer and I waved at him!!! Whenever he saw. Me during the next year he kidded me about getting a ticket. I have since stopped driving after a night shift. In fact I left my employment this July as I no longer could function. Could not remember names or even how to do simple things. As I main creasing meds now I am sure I have done a few doozies but I cannot remember hahahahahahahaha.
Chippy
That's a hard one to beat!
Chippy said:
I love zombies but never thought I would become one. We sure are different from the hungry ones in the "Walking Dead" series. I too have been out driving and thought a sign said Stop but it didn't. I stopped. However the best one was a few years ago when I was still trying to fool myself that I could work and do 12 hour shifts. I came home and had to take my dogs to be groomed. They were both singing away in my ear. They were very annoying. I came to an intersection wherein I turned left. However it was a divided road with a median and I went I to the lane facing oncoming traffic. Fortunately for me there were no vehicles but the best part was there was a cop who had pulled over a car for speeding. Thai story gets better because I knew the officer and I waved at him!!! Whenever he saw. Me during the next year he kidded me about getting a ticket. I have since stopped driving after a night shift. In fact I left my employment this July as I no longer could function. Could not remember names or even how to do simple things. As I main creasing meds now I am sure I have done a few doozies but I cannot remember hahahahahahahaha.
Chippy
I love this topic! Thank you so much for lightening things up. We could all use a laugh. I know we've all did some zombie moves but we just don't remember them! My doctor has a lot of student doctors with him when I go and he always refers to me as the patient that used to be high functioning until TN. I guess now I usually sound like a bumbling idiot since I can't remember anything and often stop midsentence.
My zombie moment was shopping online. I often look at clothes online and wish I could buy then since I can no longer go to the mall. One morning I got up and checked my email and I had purchased an entire outfit! I had to put it in the cart and put all my credit info without ever knowing it! I decided not to "pretend" shop any more!
I guess your brain REALLY wanted that outfit.
virginia girl said:
I love this topic! Thank you so much for lightening things up. We could all use a laugh. I know we've all did some zombie moves but we just don't remember them! My doctor has a lot of student doctors with him when I go and he always refers to me as the patient that used to be high functioning until TN. I guess now I usually sound like a bumbling idiot since I can't remember anything and often stop midsentence.
My zombie moment was shopping online. I often look at clothes online and wish I could buy then since I can no longer go to the mall. One morning I got up and checked my email and I had purchased an entire outfit! I had to put it in the cart and put all my credit info without ever knowing it! I decided not to "pretend" shop any more!
Get a med organizer that has moring noon evening and night on it I had to do that it. really helps
I went shoping one day came home to put the groceries away opened the refrigerator and found the telephone in the refrigerator on the shelf. LOL I have boiled water on stove forgot it and the pan was empty and red hot I now set the timer so I do not forget it any more. I have spaced out at traffic lights when they turn to green and people honk at me. I for get if I put the cat out or is he in I can never remember there are so many things Like also like this disscusion Thank you for posting it.
Tegretol was one of the few meds that helped control my pain, but I have also gained an astonishing amount of weight on it, and most disturbingly was on an automatic refill without the highly suggested monthly blood test. Last month my liver was very toxic due to the Tegretol. I take 2 a day, but my pain has skyrocketed. At least my liver is healing! Good luck with your healing!
RueAnn
I've been using LYRICA to help me get my Tegretol down, tt's a wonder drug BUT 3 weeks and 3 kilos weight gain with exactly the same diet, it is a side effect but I dismissed it. At this rate I will be the world's fattest man in a decade
At least you can remember some names even if distorted, I forget most names
Actually what you do is common, mixing one with the other, there's a name for it but I forget
Jamie, close but not correct, palindrome is the same backwards, go to the back of the class LOL
There is a name for this type of mixup
Tegretol fog is making me forget the simplest of words, it also drives me crazy
Sometimes I can remember an association of a word and thank God for Google, I can often find the lost word but moments later I will forget it again !!
Memory returns to light users of Tegretol when they can go off it as it did with me in the beginning, but heavy users have permanent damage.
Since I lowered my Tegretol from 9 to 3 and combined it with LYRICA, my brain is buzzing and won't stop
Jamie said:
Oh that's right! It's going to drive me crazy now. Watch, we'll wake up in the middle of the night and scream the term of it out! There's a name for that too but I can't think of it either haha! Zommbiesss!
Leonie said:Jamie, close but not correct, palindrome is the same backwards, go to the back of the class LOL
There is a name for this type of mixup
You guys are cracking me up!!! I have done many little things, but one sticks out. I was going to throw something away in the trash can,thought I had my hand on the counter, but didn’t and smacked my forehead into the corner of the wall!! Funny now…but not at the time…it hurt. Lol
This is too funny. If we couldn’t laugh about this we would cry. I probably couldn’t find the Kleenex or why I wanted one.
We all do either a high dose or take different meds and here is the kicker I once saw a doctor who said that because I was on 1 mg of Lorazepam to help me sleep (keeps The Beast at bay) that I was an addict. He should be in our shoes for a while to know about pain and pills. PS. He no longer is a member of my group of docs. Now to me that is something funny that I will not forget, short of what the heck was I saying. Oh yeah we should keep a daily log of what we remembered that we forgot. Oops mouth is running over. Have a great day tomorrow and keep posting the funnies
Chippy
A neurologists book published last year in the US had a paragraph on TN, it suggested we need a psychiatrist, yet NO shrink has fixed TN anywhere in the world and without Tegretol, my only option is a bottle of nitrous, the Dentists' choice for suicide, you laugh yourself to sleep LOL LOL
They have no idea ! They should be shot for making such claims. Many times in the early stages, I had to drop to the floor and stop breathing and try to stop my pulse till it went away.
At the start I had 6 months on and 6 months off. My neurologist said that's the nature of the beast. Change of season brings a new period of pain.
I think my nerve is damaged by an artery and heals in 6 weeks, then damage occurs in a different spot and it also heals in 6 weeks, this is the only thing that makes sense !
Chippy said:
This is too funny. If we couldn't laugh about this we would cry. I probably couldn't find the Kleenex or why I wanted one.
We all do either a high dose or take different meds and here is the kicker I once saw a doctor who said that because I was on 1 mg of Lorazepam to help me sleep (keeps The Beast at bay) that I was an addict. He should be in our shoes for a while to know about pain and pills. PS. He no longer is a member of my group of docs. Now to me that is something funny that I will not forget, short of what the heck was I saying. Oh yeah we should keep a daily log of what we remembered that we forgot. Oops mouth is running over. Have a great day tomorrow and keep posting the funnies
Chippy
I'd write something I've done- odd or silly or strange, but I truly can't seem to remember day to day. My husband has an encyclopedic memory and will remind of something I did that was goofy, out of character or what not and initially I thought he was pulling my leg. Apparently not. It's disturbing and funny all at once. Do I have a different persona that takes over when the zombie meds hit my brain? Perhaps that's when I stop being overly polite, agreeable, non-confrontational and let loose with a stream of zombie med enhanced unveiling of how I really feel about the medical system that I have to fight with to get any care from. I wish I could remind myself to write it down. The past 3 years have been surreal, painful, awful and amazing. I'm sure there's some good blog posts or maybe even an e-book that could be written about how my life has been flipped upside down due to the pain of Geniculate Neuralgia. Maybe my memories will come flooding back after the next brain surgery on Sept. 24. That or maybe I'll end up with a super-brain! It helps to look forward to something so I don't back away in fear of the surgery that was so awful last year. Next month it will be done by the best of the best. I try to remember that when I think about hiding in bed and never emerging for another surgery that has a 5% chance of death or other adverse symptoms.
I read on this site that the Britts have a promising drug at stage 2, it specifically targets TN and may be available mid 2015. I'll get it legally or illegally
RueAnn said:
I'd write something I've done- odd or silly or strange, but I truly can't seem to remember day to day. My husband has an encyclopedic memory and will remind of something I did that was goofy, out of character or what not and initially I thought he was pulling my leg. Apparently not. It's disturbing and funny all at once. Do I have a different persona that takes over when the zombie meds hit my brain? Perhaps that's when I stop being overly polite, agreeable, non-confrontational and let loose with a stream of zombie med enhanced unveiling of how I really feel about the medical system that I have to fight with to get any care from. I wish I could remind myself to write it down. The past 3 years have been surreal, painful, awful and amazing. I'm sure there's some good blog posts or maybe even an e-book that could be written about how my life has been flipped upside down due to the pain of Geniculate Neuralgia. Maybe my memories will come flooding back after the next brain surgery on Sept. 24. That or maybe I'll end up with a super-brain! It helps to look forward to something so I don't back away in fear of the surgery that was so awful last year. Next month it will be done by the best of the best. I try to remember that when I think about hiding in bed and never emerging for another surgery that has a 5% chance of death or other adverse symptoms.
RueAnn. Don’t hit yourself so hard over the head. I was diagnosed with TN approx 10 yrs ago but have suffered for many years prior to that. Find something that makes you smile (inside or out). There were and still. Are moments when I feel all hope is gone. But. There is more to life than TN although we think differently. DO NOT LET THE BEAST WIN. Whether we feel terrible on meds or have to deal with brain surgery. There is something good out there.
Give thanks the sky is blue the grass is green and we here at TN all. Sincerely care. Sure we have bad episodes that can last fow what seems like eternity but they pass. Ask me about this past week. Nothing was funny and dizzy and dozen and major drug fog. Today I am going to fight the feeling of these drugs and FOCUS which I find really helps when I do almost anything so I can meet and have a fairly decent conversation with a friend over lunch.
Smile we all know your upcoming surgery gets us into some concern (ok big worry). However if it relieves pain or/and may reduce the amount of meds which my surgery did it was wonderful
Keep your chin up or you will get it dirty from dragging it on the ground
remember we are our worst judges about ourselves
All the best and do smile.
Chippy
Yes I agree with Chippy…one day at a time. We cannot let TN win. It’s my life, I can’t let TN take it from me…
keep on truckin…