Pills Like Candy
Is anybody else sick of popping pills like they're candy? What is this stuff doing to my liver? Am I sacrificing one part of myself for another?
I take a pill to go to sleep, another to calm down, one to make me happy, one to make me not too happy. It feels excessive at times. I try to remember that I take this medication to keep me sane and out of the mental ward. But I have other ailments to worry about like my liver disease. Are these meds eating at my liver slowly but surely, and if they are, what do I do? How do I make a choice between my liver and my mind?
I take a pill to go to sleep, another to calm down, one to make me happy, one to make me not too happy. It feels excessive at times. I try to remember that I take this medication to keep me sane and out of the mental ward. But I have other ailments to worry about like my liver disease. Are these meds eating at my liver slowly but surely, and if they are, what do I do? How do I make a choice between my liver and my mind?
Yeah I hear ya. I feel like I'm slowly killing my body but I know that if I didn't take them that I'd kill myself right away. I wish and do actually want to kill myself but I can't do that to my wife and parents.
All you can do is weigh it up, Sister. Do what is best for you, choose the path that gives you the best quality of life. That's what it is all about. Just make sure you get lots of nutritious food into your diet.. take care of your body to the best of your ability. Dandelion tea is good for the liver... a tonic. Not sure about interaction with meds tho, but worth a look maybe? It really is a bit like a see-saw, isn't it. Take one thing to counter the other... and so on. Peace. X
Handsome--It's hard to know what the right thing to do is. I know it's nice that I haven't felt overly suicidal in a long time.
Meg--I'm going to look for some dandelion tea. Thanks for the tip!
Some mornings when I sit down to eat and look at that pile of pills on the table, I just shake my head. I have friends who are HIV positive, and I'm almost certain I take as many pills as some of them.
It boggles the mind sometime.
That exact thought is why I've tried to get myself off the pills. I don't consider it a massive coincidence that the day after I started Olanzapine I'm suddenly rushed into hospital with liver / kidney problems.