The Lab Rat Juggles Pills

This last week, I have continued to simulate what a normal work week for me would feel like and I continue to be successful.

My current pill regimen continues to be slightly unpleasant, but do-able. This week, I ran into a couple other bumps in the road as well, but I will talk more about that later.

The stimulants that I am currently taking keep me awake and moving. But, they make it harder to sleep at night. I have to counteract that by taking sleep pills at night and also taking days off my main stimulant- modafinil. The days that I take off from the pill, I have zero energy and sleep almost constantly.

The current pills also do nothing for my other symptoms, including my brain fog, which has been improving bit-by-bit on it’s own, but which I am still having some problems with. I have been doing my best to deal with and adapt around my brain fog using various means that I talked about in my previous post.

My primary care physician had suggested that I tell my neurologist about the problems that I am having and see if the neurologist would switch me to the pill that my primary had wanted to put me on- ADHD medication, which would be a stimulant and may also help me with some of lack of focus issues that I have since I developed covid brain fog.

I haven’t yet had the chance to talk to my neurologist about my stimulant and how it is going. But, in the interim, I had another follow-up with my primary case physician. She thinks I should go ahead try the ADHD medication.

But, I am still hesitant to try it without hearing from my neurologist. The pill that my primary is suggesting could potentially have a negative drug interaction with three of the pills that I am on right now, including the one that is helping me the most right now.

I am definitely feeling unsure. What I am on right now is working. But, it’s definitely unpleasant. And perhaps I could be doing even better.

I definitely want to give myself more time to think it over. If only everything wasn’t tests and retests and trial and error. Still, I hope that what survivors are finding out now through trial and error means an easier time for any others that come after us.

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