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all meds r kinda fucked when u think abt it... i mean they are designed to alter something inside ur body which is why it can cause a plethora of side effects + why u can't b certain what happens to u bc our body chemistries r different, so u have to try and try until u find something that doesn't completely fuck u over. u change one thing that ur body is struggling with and it can (rather, usually will) cause a chain reaction of other bs which u may or may not detect by urself

i'm currently on like. an autism evaluation while my current diagnosis is avpd,, and the thing is like. there's so many overlappings

Yeah, meds or really any form of medical treatment, always have risks or potential side effects, because otherwise they probably wouldn't work either, because they wouldn't actually do anything in ur body yeah? Weird stuff but alas

I started them in my early 20s while I was in college too so any weird side effects or changes to my mood/emotional regulation I always just chalked up to being in college and in bad relationships.
now in hindsight its possible it was all of the above lol

I think if one starts medication when fairly young, its kind of useful to stop the medication for a while at least, as long as its not life saving medication, just to see how you function without them. Especially if u have some weird physiological or physical symptoms that are bothering you, or just to see if you need the medication at all anymore

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Barbarella wrote:

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Yeah, meds or really any form of medical treatment, always have risks or potential side effects, because otherwise they probably wouldn't work either, because they wouldn't actually do anything in ur body yeah? Weird stuff but alas

I started them in my early 20s while I was in college too so any weird side effects or changes to my mood/emotional regulation I always just chalked up to being in college and in bad relationships.
now in hindsight its possible it was all of the above lol

I think if one starts medication when fairly young, its kind of useful to stop the medication for a while at least, as long as its not life saving medication, just to see how you function without them. Especially if u have some weird physiological or physical symptoms that are bothering you, or just to see if you need the medication at all anymore

yeah thats what I'd like to do, so I tried, but my allergy symptoms were so bad (possibly dangerous) that I think I need to get some other allergy treatment to replace it before I try again.
I'll prob call my doc next week.

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Barbarella wrote:

Melody wrote:
all meds r kinda fucked when u think abt it... i mean they are designed to alter something inside ur body which is why it can cause a plethora of side effects + why u can't b certain what happens to u bc our body chemistries r different, so u have to try and try until u find something that doesn't completely fuck u over. u change one thing that ur body is struggling with and it can (rather, usually will) cause a chain reaction of other bs which u may or may not detect by urself

i'm currently on like. an autism evaluation while my current diagnosis is avpd,, and the thing is like. there's so many overlappings

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my assessment where they told me about my medication was actually an assessment for autism which I was told I didn't have any cognitive markers for.

however the rest of the report made no sense, said I was an alcoholic (I hardly drink), that I overreported all my symptoms, and that I'm preoccupied/obsessed with my poor health (I'm disabled and it affects every part of my life)

so I'm kinda not listening to the assessment like, at all lol
the only valuable thing I got from it was learning that I may have been having side effects to this medication for several years without realizing it

??? wth is up with the person who made that report
i hate human bodies for real ugh. i'm on three different meds rn and i hardly know what 2/3 of them do to me, while the third is like... an epilepsy med but in my case used to stabilize my mood swings?? that one i know worked bc i seldom feel anything anymore oops. the funny thing is, a lot of these assessments require u to "deal with" mental health issues first, but like.... what if ur mental health symptoms are part of whatever it is u r being assessed for?? it's so confusing to me

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Barbarella wrote:

ouch wrote:

Barbarella wrote:
I started them in my early 20s while I was in college too so any weird side effects or changes to my mood/emotional regulation I always just chalked up to being in college and in bad relationships.
now in hindsight its possible it was all of the above lol

I think if one starts medication when fairly young, its kind of useful to stop the medication for a while at least, as long as its not life saving medication, just to see how you function without them. Especially if u have some weird physiological or physical symptoms that are bothering you, or just to see if you need the medication at all anymore

yeah thats what I'd like to do, so I tried, but my allergy symptoms were so bad (possibly dangerous) that I think I need to get some other allergy treatment to replace it before I try again.
I'll prob call my doc next week.

Allergy meds r so annoying, I have only tried zyrtec and telfast, but they do literally nothing, I do be itching a lot, and also cant breathe at all anymore if im around the dog my mom has, cus my throat/lungs get so clogged I can't push air through, sexy moment for me fr

I think my mom reccomended me some allergy meds I could ask my doctor about, that some of her friends use who are allergic to dogs, but I don't remember what its called, but ill ask her n talk to my doctor abt it I think, cus its super annoying

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Barbarella wrote:

Melody wrote:

Barbarella wrote:

Melody wrote:
all meds r kinda fucked when u think abt it... i mean they are designed to alter something inside ur body which is why it can cause a plethora of side effects + why u can't b certain what happens to u bc our body chemistries r different, so u have to try and try until u find something that doesn't completely fuck u over. u change one thing that ur body is struggling with and it can (rather, usually will) cause a chain reaction of other bs which u may or may not detect by urself

i'm currently on like. an autism evaluation while my current diagnosis is avpd,, and the thing is like. there's so many overlappings

x

my assessment where they told me about my medication was actually an assessment for autism which I was told I didn't have any cognitive markers for.

however the rest of the report made no sense, said I was an alcoholic (I hardly drink), that I overreported all my symptoms, and that I'm preoccupied/obsessed with my poor health (I'm disabled and it affects every part of my life)

so I'm kinda not listening to the assessment like, at all lol
the only valuable thing I got from it was learning that I may have been having side effects to this medication for several years without realizing it

??? wth is up with the person who made that report
i hate human bodies for real ugh. i'm on three different meds rn and i hardly know what 2/3 of them do to me, while the third is like... an epilepsy med but in my case used to stabilize my mood swings?? that one i know worked bc i seldom feel anything anymore oops. the funny thing is, a lot of these assessments require u to "deal with" mental health issues first, but like.... what if ur mental health symptoms are part of whatever it is u r being assessed for?? it's so confusing to me

lol i remember when I was told my birth control may have been causing mental health issues and when I switched off it and got an iud all my symptoms got worse and it turned out I had PMDD the whole time and bc I have super long periods without birth control (like over 2 weeks) I was basically constantly stuck in the PMDD and within a few days of going back on birth control I literally felt like a completely different person.

sometimes it really isn't shit you can "work through" - it's medical.

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Barbarella wrote:

ouch wrote:

Barbarella wrote:

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I think if one starts medication when fairly young, its kind of useful to stop the medication for a while at least, as long as its not life saving medication, just to see how you function without them. Especially if u have some weird physiological or physical symptoms that are bothering you, or just to see if you need the medication at all anymore

yeah thats what I'd like to do, so I tried, but my allergy symptoms were so bad (possibly dangerous) that I think I need to get some other allergy treatment to replace it before I try again.
I'll prob call my doc next week.

Allergy meds r so annoying, I have only tried zyrtec and telfast, but they do literally nothing, I do be itching a lot, and also cant breathe at all anymore if im around the dog my mom has, cus my throat/lungs get so clogged I can't push air through, sexy moment for me fr

I think my mom reccomended me some allergy meds I could ask my doctor about, that some of her friends use who are allergic to dogs, but I don't remember what its called, but ill ask her n talk to my doctor abt it I think, cus its super annoying

I take zyrtec with my singulair and on its own it does literally nothing. I half wonder if i even need the zyrtec because I don't think it does anything.

I dunno what other options are out there tho. I know some things are out of the question because I take ADHD meds (which we're trying to lower and supplement with wellbutrin because my heart rate is going bonkers), but hopefully a specialist can help me work it out.

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Barbarella wrote:

ouch wrote:

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yeah thats what I'd like to do, so I tried, but my allergy symptoms were so bad (possibly dangerous) that I think I need to get some other allergy treatment to replace it before I try again.
I'll prob call my doc next week.

Allergy meds r so annoying, I have only tried zyrtec and telfast, but they do literally nothing, I do be itching a lot, and also cant breathe at all anymore if im around the dog my mom has, cus my throat/lungs get so clogged I can't push air through, sexy moment for me fr

I think my mom reccomended me some allergy meds I could ask my doctor about, that some of her friends use who are allergic to dogs, but I don't remember what its called, but ill ask her n talk to my doctor abt it I think, cus its super annoying

I take zyrtec with my singulair and on its own it does literally nothing. I half wonder if i even need the zyrtec because I don't think it does anything.

I dunno what other options are out there tho. I know some things are out of the question because I take ADHD meds (which we're trying to lower and supplement with wellbutrin because my heart rate is going bonkers), but hopefully a specialist can help me work it out.

Oh it was aerius she reccomended, but idk if it will work for me because my biggest problem is the airways closing up and mby skin itching (I don't know if thats because of allergies or not, but I assume probably it is) , and it says it works like,, in ur nose region, itchy nose, sneezing, all that stuff, but I feel like every antihistamine says that, but idk if that means it won't work on my airways

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I feel like an allergy faker despite almost suffocating from an asthma attack when I was 4 because I only ever took Cetirizin and Loratadin, it never worked but they never gave me prescription meds either

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Barbarella wrote:

ouch wrote:

Barbarella wrote:

ouch wrote:
Allergy meds r so annoying, I have only tried zyrtec and telfast, but they do literally nothing, I do be itching a lot, and also cant breathe at all anymore if im around the dog my mom has, cus my throat/lungs get so clogged I can't push air through, sexy moment for me fr

I think my mom reccomended me some allergy meds I could ask my doctor about, that some of her friends use who are allergic to dogs, but I don't remember what its called, but ill ask her n talk to my doctor abt it I think, cus its super annoying

I take zyrtec with my singulair and on its own it does literally nothing. I half wonder if i even need the zyrtec because I don't think it does anything.

I dunno what other options are out there tho. I know some things are out of the question because I take ADHD meds (which we're trying to lower and supplement with wellbutrin because my heart rate is going bonkers), but hopefully a specialist can help me work it out.

Oh it was aerius she reccomended, but idk if it will work for me because my biggest problem is the airways closing up and mby skin itching (I don't know if thats because of allergies or not, but I assume probably it is) , and it says it works like,, in ur nose region, itchy nose, sneezing, all that stuff, but I feel like every antihistamine says that, but idk if that means it won't work on my airways

i sneeze like, rapid fire, nonstop
my mouth and eyes and nose itch
and my nose just POURS, it's gross
and after a few mins of that everything starts closing up and it gets harder to breathe
and I don't feel better until I eventually pass out from exhaustion from this happening over and over and over again for like 12 hours with no relief

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ouch wrote:

Barbarella wrote:

ouch wrote:

Barbarella wrote:
I take zyrtec with my singulair and on its own it does literally nothing. I half wonder if i even need the zyrtec because I don't think it does anything.

I dunno what other options are out there tho. I know some things are out of the question because I take ADHD meds (which we're trying to lower and supplement with wellbutrin because my heart rate is going bonkers), but hopefully a specialist can help me work it out.

Oh it was aerius she reccomended, but idk if it will work for me because my biggest problem is the airways closing up and mby skin itching (I don't know if thats because of allergies or not, but I assume probably it is) , and it says it works like,, in ur nose region, itchy nose, sneezing, all that stuff, but I feel like every antihistamine says that, but idk if that means it won't work on my airways

i sneeze like, rapid fire, nonstop
my mouth and eyes and nose itch
and my nose just POURS, it's gross
and after a few mins of that everything starts closing up and it gets harder to breathe
and I don't feel better until I eventually pass out from exhaustion from this happening over and over and over again for like 12 hours with no relief

I got the itchy nose and skin and runny nose and sneezing and all that once I think, but it was because the dog jumped in my face and licked it, and my hands, so I got all red and splotchy ann over and super itchy and painful and I probably cried cus it was so uncomfortable, but I hadn't developed the throat issue then yet, that one has only gotten worse and worse and worse every time I see the dog (mby every 3-6 months)

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Barbarella wrote:

ouch wrote:

Barbarella wrote:

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Oh it was aerius she reccomended, but idk if it will work for me because my biggest problem is the airways closing up and mby skin itching (I don't know if thats because of allergies or not, but I assume probably it is) , and it says it works like,, in ur nose region, itchy nose, sneezing, all that stuff, but I feel like every antihistamine says that, but idk if that means it won't work on my airways

i sneeze like, rapid fire, nonstop
my mouth and eyes and nose itch
and my nose just POURS, it's gross
and after a few mins of that everything starts closing up and it gets harder to breathe
and I don't feel better until I eventually pass out from exhaustion from this happening over and over and over again for like 12 hours with no relief

I got the itchy nose and skin and runny nose and sneezing and all that once I think, but it was because the dog jumped in my face and licked it, and my hands, so I got all red and splotchy ann over and super itchy and painful and I probably cried cus it was so uncomfortable, but I hadn't developed the throat issue then yet, that one has only gotten worse and worse and worse every time I see the dog (mby every 3-6 months)

I also can't be around dogs
cats are also a struggle but not nearly as much as dogs

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ouch wrote:

Barbarella wrote:

ouch wrote:

Barbarella wrote:
i sneeze like, rapid fire, nonstop
my mouth and eyes and nose itch
and my nose just POURS, it's gross
and after a few mins of that everything starts closing up and it gets harder to breathe
and I don't feel better until I eventually pass out from exhaustion from this happening over and over and over again for like 12 hours with no relief

I got the itchy nose and skin and runny nose and sneezing and all that once I think, but it was because the dog jumped in my face and licked it, and my hands, so I got all red and splotchy ann over and super itchy and painful and I probably cried cus it was so uncomfortable, but I hadn't developed the throat issue then yet, that one has only gotten worse and worse and worse every time I see the dog (mby every 3-6 months)

I also can't be around dogs
cats are also a struggle but not nearly as much as dogs

I don't know if im allergic to dogs in general or just my moms dog, cus I've never had any other issues with dogs before we got that dog (I had to move out from her lol). But its not the fur that gets me, its either the saliva, or just like,,, dog air. I was at my cabin and its like a huge amount of space and air in there, bit I couldn't breathe at all the second evening we were there (dog was inside also) , but it immediately got better when I stepped outside so I think its just that the dog air gets more and more consentrated inside that I start reacting really bad mby. We had a dog when I was a child also but I was fine then. But I have started to get some weird allergies I think, to a lot of stuff, and just other dieseases in general, like the rosacea, and the full body skin rashes and dots, so I think mby something in my body is going very wrong and its not just allergies, but its hard to get answers at a doctor for such weird symptoms