Quootie's friends here please - new support thread

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Hello Quootie - thought we should start a new thread.

Will be thinking about you tonight. Hope you can get some rest. Could you try having a bath or something? Can really help me to un-wind.

Got to sleep in the end end - at 4. Used up all my diazepam - DH off to get some more now

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they are awful. Like a living nightmare. I don't really get "addicted2 to things, but...rather that I guess than take an OD

"addicted"

They make you feel crap in the morning though!

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can you ask your doc for zopiclone instead if diazepam.. a week of those should help

take around 6.0 , by 7, you will be fast asleep and get a good nights rest..DH needs to be there to get up to feed LO though

should take a week to reset your body clock

I think I was on zopiclone before? Are the BFing safe? I co-sleep aswell... Diazepam I know im safe, used to them, and I had 4 sitting in the cupboard for over a week, and only had one a few days ago, and 3 over the course of last night, so I thought I done pretty well...

I reset my body clock... for about a week I was going good, but, just last night threw me with those "attacks" of whatever.

not sure actually...just know that diazepam can be habit forming and you become toleratant of them, needing higher doses to achieve the same level of sleep etc..

ive been on and off them 2 years, I think I can control my intake pretty well. I only take them when I really need to. Well, maybe on Tuesday they will advise me on medication abit more ... ive just been really doing my own thing.

well, controlling your intake ..maybe so...but using diazepam for 2 years is not good, IMHO....... you are essentially self medicating with a powerful drug..that is not really the best thing for your condition

you must insist that you are prescribed suitable meds for the depression, ptsd & sleeping problems...

i think some of your quality of life will return with good sleep....

Never really thought about it that way... Not really constant for 2 years, just started 2 years ago, on them for a few weeks, then pregnant, then breastfeeding, but then GP said they were safe about 2 months ago... but I guess it's still not good. DH was abit miffed they way they just keep dishing them out to be honest.

your meds certainly need reviewing...a consultant psych is the best person to do so

i spent years on various ads, at varying doses, consult prescribed 175 mg of venlaflxine, within 48 hours i was feeling a difference.

The A & E fella thinks I should even be on ADs, the depression is secondary, and when the PTSD is treated, the depression will treat itself... but I guess ill see what the people on Tuesday say. I think id rather treat the depression aswell. And im sure you can get PTSD medication, what I mean is, im sure some ADs treat PTSD.

Even at 2 and a bit hours to go until midnight, start of a new year etc etc we are still bickering. I told him to get out, im so fed up, but he's rooted in the chair with the PS2. Im starting to get really serious about splitting - I mean we discussed divorce before, but, then he always seems so much better. We are supposed to be celebrating instead he's playing his stupid war games. I hope im not that immature at 24.

This even dropped of my threads im on! Only 1 more day DH just isn't even bothering to talk to me now... depressing, but I guess it isnt making me tons worse , like when he plays silly buggers.

so he bought you an eternity ring, but won;t talk to you?

quootie..get yourself well, stop worrying about him ,and get to a place where you can make firm decisions about the future

playing computer games not a sign of immaturity, but avoiding serious marital issues is

Hi QP - how are you doing? I've not been online for a bit - too much other stuff going on - but I am thinking of you

PA xx

He keeps saying "everytime we talk, we end up arguing" which doesnt help I guess. Yes, guess id better concentrate on me, and try and ignore him and the problems he creates...

Thanks PA [fmsile] Im ok thankyou xXx Hope you had a nice Christmas and new Year xXx

oops,

Hmmm, not bad but not brilliant. DH got into a BIG mope on Boxing Day, and hasn't really come out of it. He just says "he's depressed" and "surely I know what that feels like". The awful thing is that while I do know what it's like, I find it hard to cope when he's not being strong and supportive to me in my depression. Still thinking this one through.....

I've not caught up on everything that has been going for you, but did read about your OD. My heart goes out to you, I've been there a few times, and it's damn tough. We're all here for you (even if I'm just a part-timer you know I'm thinking of you!!)

Good luck tomorrow

Thankyou xXx Sorry to hear about you, and yours. DH has suddenly decided he's depressed now aswell, but, to be honest I dont think he can even begin to know what being depressed etc. feels like! His depression comes and goes with how tidy or messy the house is etc.

Yes, exactly the same here. DH's changes with the weather, if he's out on his mountainbike enough, if he's working too much etc etc etc. And it really REALLY annoys me when he says oh yes he understands what it's like. I've tried so many times to explain, but I guess that it's one of those things you don't really understand until you've been there. I think to be fair, I didn't understand until I became depressed. Now I have more understanding than I ever wanted

I know what you mean. DH thinks that being happy sometimes means im not depressed anymore... or having a nice time doing something. He almost seems shocked when Im quiet etc. again... as if whatever X, Y or Z we have just been doing has suddenly cured me!