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Aug. 1st, 2021 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feldman Erm, it's been hopping!
At work we expanded and reorganized offices, I hired a second person for my team, and have been running between locations all July. I managed to see Black Widow twice in the theater *cough*fuckDisney*cough*, and I even wrote some fic for it: Middletown. I have so much love for the character work this film, it's unholy. I am also burnt out from a series of leveling up skills at work, so it's a lot of creative energy I can't channel right now.
The migraines are lower on the preventive med, which is excellent! But it's been killing my appetite, which is mixed news. Because they only started coming out with migraine-specific meds in the last few years, most preventives are off-label, and I can't take the beta-blocker ones because my blood pressure is already pretty low. So I've been on an old-school antidepressant, at a dose you'd give a large housecat for anxiety. The rescue med protocol went through some adjustments, and our insurance system in the US is a crime against humanity, but I got lucky with the authorization. We're going to let it ride until January and see how the winter goes. I can live off stores for a bit, but I really only eat (most of) a full meal anymore when I have the munchies. It's enough to get nutrients in me, and keep the weight loss to a manageable level where it freaks me out less.
Speaking of munchies, I'm growing a cannabis plant on my porch. I used to wonder what it would be like if alcohol worked for me like it did other people. Turns out I'd become a cocktail-enthusiast and home-brewer. My Bruce Banner autoflower is a few weeks out from harvest, and I planted a germinated Girl Scout Cookies auto yesterday. I'm going to try making some topical pain balm this fall.
In other news, the kiddo (formerly known as C-monkey back in the LJ days) will be fifteen this month. She's taller than I am, and spending her summer tearing through Duolingo. I've also been drawn back into the owl's embrace. I took two calls in Spanish the other week! Also, I might be starting to get Russian spelling? I mean, my tongue still feels like a rug jammed up under a door, but I'm no longer shocked at hearing how words are pronounced.
Oh, I also put together a Black Widow playlist:
At work we expanded and reorganized offices, I hired a second person for my team, and have been running between locations all July. I managed to see Black Widow twice in the theater *cough*fuckDisney*cough*, and I even wrote some fic for it: Middletown. I have so much love for the character work this film, it's unholy. I am also burnt out from a series of leveling up skills at work, so it's a lot of creative energy I can't channel right now.
The migraines are lower on the preventive med, which is excellent! But it's been killing my appetite, which is mixed news. Because they only started coming out with migraine-specific meds in the last few years, most preventives are off-label, and I can't take the beta-blocker ones because my blood pressure is already pretty low. So I've been on an old-school antidepressant, at a dose you'd give a large housecat for anxiety. The rescue med protocol went through some adjustments, and our insurance system in the US is a crime against humanity, but I got lucky with the authorization. We're going to let it ride until January and see how the winter goes. I can live off stores for a bit, but I really only eat (most of) a full meal anymore when I have the munchies. It's enough to get nutrients in me, and keep the weight loss to a manageable level where it freaks me out less.
Speaking of munchies, I'm growing a cannabis plant on my porch. I used to wonder what it would be like if alcohol worked for me like it did other people. Turns out I'd become a cocktail-enthusiast and home-brewer. My Bruce Banner autoflower is a few weeks out from harvest, and I planted a germinated Girl Scout Cookies auto yesterday. I'm going to try making some topical pain balm this fall.
In other news, the kiddo (formerly known as C-monkey back in the LJ days) will be fifteen this month. She's taller than I am, and spending her summer tearing through Duolingo. I've also been drawn back into the owl's embrace. I took two calls in Spanish the other week! Also, I might be starting to get Russian spelling? I mean, my tongue still feels like a rug jammed up under a door, but I'm no longer shocked at hearing how words are pronounced.
Oh, I also put together a Black Widow playlist:
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Date: 2021-08-01 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-08-02 10:29 am (UTC)I'm doing 75 mg a day of topamax, and after a rough one month of adjustment, I've fully adjusted with no side effects.
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Date: 2021-08-02 11:43 am (UTC)I negotiated away from topomax right out of the gate bc my mom's experience with it was dire, and the biggest impact I was having from the frequent attacks was brain fog--and i knew work was going to be crazy this summer in a career-changing way.
The rescue meds were trickier to dial in; and it infuriates me how much of that was my neuro having to build a fucking federal case for insurance to cover a gepant med. IT'S ALL BROKEN.
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Date: 2021-08-03 10:12 am (UTC)FWIW, I had a rough month adjusting to topamax, and now all the side effects have subsided and I'm back to my normal autoimmune brain fog.
I'm struggling with rescue meds, too. He rxed one that's 900 dollars and that's a no go. So now I get to see what the next option is at my next appt. *sigh*