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candylandWow. Why can things never be simple?
A while back, once my insurance kicked in, I went to the doctor to try and figure out what was wrong with me. After a couple of visits, we decided to try an anti-depressant, and he put me on a four-week trial run of Lexapro. It was a god-send, and I felt like a whole new person.
Well, turns out that Lexapro requires a prior authorization through my insurance. Translation for the uninitiated: insurance doesn't want to pay for it, so yar, here thar be paperwork to try and get 'em to cover it. Usually they want you to try generics first, etc.
Fortunately, my doctor and I had discussed this beforehand, so I made a phone call, and he switched me over to generic Celexa, a drug called citalopram. It's very similar to Lexapro, which has a generic name of escitalopram. Basically, they're almost exactly the same chemical make-up, just mirror images of each other. The formula is quite literally reversed between the two.
This concludes your pharmaceutical nerdery for the day.
So I started citalopram on July 19th. About a week later, I started feeling kind of...itchy. Due to the record-breaking rain we've had this year, the mosquitoes have been BRUTAL, so I figured it was just that. Except it didn't stop itching. It was gradual, so it wasn't until my hands were bright red from me scratching so hard that I noticed anything odd. The night I wound up using a friggin' car key to scratch my foot because nothing else worked was the last straw.
Mom took a look when I mentioned it, and she said she thought it looked like I had a rash. Now, my skin is natural sort of reddish, so I'm not terribly good at noticing that. But I stopped taking my citalopram for two days (and took Benadryl instead, which I sort of hated because I could not stay awake on Sunday to save my life!). The itching eased off a bit.
I should also add that I've really had any allergic reactions to anything before. The only allergy I've ever had was to nickle and nickle alloys in jewelry. But even with that, I could wear 'em for a couple of hours and take 'em off and be perfectly fine. So having an apparently allergic reaction to a medication was a bit of a novelty for me XD
So another phone call went to the doctor. After a little round of phone-tag, I wound up getting switched. So starting tomorrow, I'm on generic Wellbutrin, which is called bupropion.
...PLEASE TO NOT BE MAKING ME HAVE AN ALLERGIC REACTION AND ALSO PLEASE TO BE WORKING AS WELL AS THE LEXAPRO DID ;_; I like not feeling like I want to shoot myself in the head, dammit!
...in other news, my computer finally seems to have died. It's been trying to die for a couple of years, but yesterday I think it finally managed it. I've appropriated my mother's laptop for now, and shall try to make do. Guess we know what's going on my Christmas list, huh?
Persona 3 Portable is a thing of glory and wonder ~♥
And finally, I'm writing again. I'm sure it has something to do with the same reason I needed the meds in the first place, but in hindsight...how did I go four bleepin' months without really writing? I updated a fic a couple days ago, and it made me feel so ridiculously happy...
Yeah. I missed you, fandom. I really missed you :D
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candyfics: No Little Plans, ch. 3 (DC/MK) (The real chapter 3, this time. I swear it. No April Fool's pranks involving Kaito/Shinichi slash and inferred smut ^___^ And yes, I'm having entirely too much with this fic!)
A while back, once my insurance kicked in, I went to the doctor to try and figure out what was wrong with me. After a couple of visits, we decided to try an anti-depressant, and he put me on a four-week trial run of Lexapro. It was a god-send, and I felt like a whole new person.
Well, turns out that Lexapro requires a prior authorization through my insurance. Translation for the uninitiated: insurance doesn't want to pay for it, so yar, here thar be paperwork to try and get 'em to cover it. Usually they want you to try generics first, etc.
Fortunately, my doctor and I had discussed this beforehand, so I made a phone call, and he switched me over to generic Celexa, a drug called citalopram. It's very similar to Lexapro, which has a generic name of escitalopram. Basically, they're almost exactly the same chemical make-up, just mirror images of each other. The formula is quite literally reversed between the two.
This concludes your pharmaceutical nerdery for the day.
So I started citalopram on July 19th. About a week later, I started feeling kind of...itchy. Due to the record-breaking rain we've had this year, the mosquitoes have been BRUTAL, so I figured it was just that. Except it didn't stop itching. It was gradual, so it wasn't until my hands were bright red from me scratching so hard that I noticed anything odd. The night I wound up using a friggin' car key to scratch my foot because nothing else worked was the last straw.
Mom took a look when I mentioned it, and she said she thought it looked like I had a rash. Now, my skin is natural sort of reddish, so I'm not terribly good at noticing that. But I stopped taking my citalopram for two days (and took Benadryl instead, which I sort of hated because I could not stay awake on Sunday to save my life!). The itching eased off a bit.
I should also add that I've really had any allergic reactions to anything before. The only allergy I've ever had was to nickle and nickle alloys in jewelry. But even with that, I could wear 'em for a couple of hours and take 'em off and be perfectly fine. So having an apparently allergic reaction to a medication was a bit of a novelty for me XD
So another phone call went to the doctor. After a little round of phone-tag, I wound up getting switched. So starting tomorrow, I'm on generic Wellbutrin, which is called bupropion.
...PLEASE TO NOT BE MAKING ME HAVE AN ALLERGIC REACTION AND ALSO PLEASE TO BE WORKING AS WELL AS THE LEXAPRO DID ;_; I like not feeling like I want to shoot myself in the head, dammit!
...in other news, my computer finally seems to have died. It's been trying to die for a couple of years, but yesterday I think it finally managed it. I've appropriated my mother's laptop for now, and shall try to make do. Guess we know what's going on my Christmas list, huh?
Persona 3 Portable is a thing of glory and wonder ~♥
And finally, I'm writing again. I'm sure it has something to do with the same reason I needed the meds in the first place, but in hindsight...how did I go four bleepin' months without really writing? I updated a fic a couple days ago, and it made me feel so ridiculously happy...
Yeah. I missed you, fandom. I really missed you :D
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candyfics: No Little Plans, ch. 3 (DC/MK) (The real chapter 3, this time. I swear it. No April Fool's pranks involving Kaito/Shinichi slash and inferred smut ^___^ And yes, I'm having entirely too much with this fic!)