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My drugs are not working.

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TheOriginalFAB · 02/09/2011 20:30

If I go more than 24 hours between tablets I crash. I have been on these for a few months, maybe a year and a bit, not sure but they are not doing me any good if I have to be so rigid in when I take them. It just isn't practical. I feel so down at the moment. I am struggling with being a mum, I am getting over two bad asthma attacks, have no family and just need something to give me back me.

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TheOriginalFAB · 02/09/2011 21:54

This is my first thread about not thinking my tablets are working. If they won't work unless taking at the exact time then they won't work for me and I don't think they are working any way even when I do take them. My post was about them not working as well as they used too.

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madmouse · 02/09/2011 22:00

Then why don't you go to the doctor like you were advised in the last thread

ThatsNotYours · 02/09/2011 22:01

Sorry FAB if you are cognitive and self aware enough to have, and engage in, debate you already know that you can make the time to take your meds.

Lougle · 02/09/2011 22:27

It's fine Fab you don't need to justify how you feel. But you do have two choices:

Take your tablets at the same time every day religiously for a week, then see if you feel a bit better.

Go to the Doctor and ask for a change in medication.

Mumsnet can't talk you through this one, it is a simple case of 'action is needed'.

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TheOriginalFAB · 03/09/2011 09:20

I am about this talk of the last thread. This is the first thread I have posted about my tablets not working. Last week I was ill with asthma and I did go to the doctor for that.

I have no issue with needing the tablets, I know I am on them for life. My point of the thread was I don't feel they are working and it is only a recent thing that I have noticed/been told if I don't take them at the same time each say, I will crash. They were already not working as well when I was taking them within an hour each day.

I am going to take them before I get out of bed each day and see if that helps. On Monday everyone is back to school so I will be getting up at the same time each day whereas at at the moment I am waking up at different times.

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madmouse · 03/09/2011 09:27

FAB this thread is from exactly two weeks ago and called 'I don't think my meds are working and I'm on a real downer'. And yes you are the OP

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TheOriginalFAB · 03/09/2011 09:34

There is no need for the face. I had completely forgotten about that thread and it isn't on my threads I am on. I have only read the OP but I wouldn't have been to the doctor back then as I had the children all the time. I can't do anything until they are back at school and I have time to see if it is just from having to have them 24/7 and the fact I have been ill in other ways.

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madmouse · 03/09/2011 09:39

Forgive the face FAB but I was getting a bit frustrated at your denial that there was a similar thread before whereas I clearly remembered trying to help you on that one too. I will leave you alone now as you clearly don't want to hear what I have to say.

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TheOriginalFAB · 03/09/2011 09:52

I forgot, that is all.

I have said I couldn't go to the GP because I have had the children and will reassess next week when they are back at school and I have been taking them at the same time each day. I don't understand how you can say I am not listening. I am doing what you have said to do.

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m0nkeynuts · 03/09/2011 09:53

How about setting your alarm to wake you up BEFORE the kids wake up, so you can take your pill without worrying that you're neglecting them / being distracted by them?

Set the alarm for the middle of the night if needs be! Wake up, take pill, go back to sleep :)

OriginalPoster · 03/09/2011 09:58

FAB did they put you on steroids (prednisolone) for asthma last week?

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TheOriginalFAB · 03/09/2011 10:03

Yes, I was on steroids and anti biotics - both are now finished.

I have a stupid idea in my head that to put me first for anything is bad for the kids and they come first as I have never come first with anyone until I met DH. I know I am being stupid but I have set my mobile to go off every morning now to take the tablet and it will go off until I do it.

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madmouse · 03/09/2011 10:07

Hope that works for you FAB, and that it will make the meds work better too!

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TheOriginalFAB · 03/09/2011 10:14

Thanks. I need to get my act together and stop putting the kids first all the time as it doesn't help any of us. And it isn't even mking me a better mum.

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madmouse · 03/09/2011 10:22

FAB it's an old one and you probably know it but it's also very true: In airplanes they tell you to put your own oxygen mask on before you put your kids' ones on, because if you run out of oxygen adn collapse/die there's no one to help them.

OriginalPoster · 03/09/2011 10:25

Steroids affect mood, as you probably know already. I feel quite anxious
or agitated on them and a liitle high, then when they stop I feel low. this could be part of the picture.

MinimallyNarkyPuffin · 03/09/2011 10:35

Are you on slow release capsules? The NHS tends to push the cheaper tablets (same drug, different delivery) to keep prescription costs down. They wear off much faster. Worth googling to see if there is an SR version available.

Also, putting your DCs first = looking after their mother. It'll do them more harm to have you off kilter than to wait 5 minutes while you take your medicine.

orangeflutie · 03/09/2011 10:45

The steroids you were taking will definitely have had a bit of an effect on your mood. Agree with OriginalPoster they tend to make me hyper when I take them too.

I know a lot of people have said this before me, but you do need to start putting yourself first when it concerns your health. Unfortunately part of the nature of depression is that you feel that you're not important. That is definitely not true. Your DC need you to be well to look after them. I have three DC too and for years I put their needs to much before mine. As a result my mental health suffered and it's taken me quite a while to realise it.

Also in future if you need to see the doctor, I've found that I can take my DC with me and often the receptionist will keep an eye on them in the waiting room for me. This had helped me in the past.

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TheOriginalFAB · 03/09/2011 12:40

I am on duloxetine. I was on citalipram before but was changed.

I don't know if I am allowed to leave them in the waiting room and can't be sure they won't mess about. I do need to take better care of myself though. I have got a difficult time coming up and need all the help I can get.

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orangeflutie · 03/09/2011 14:31

Hope you manage to get yourself sorted out. I do understand how difficult it is with three young DC and no childcare.

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