Treatment Exit Strategies

[Corbell]

Hey Earl - I need to feel better about myself - share some manic stories with me...What do manic people do - maybe i'm one - I'm gettinga little starnge these days..

Gee good attitiude tonight huh? not - sorry just had a second Rituxan infusion today (all day) and  feel worse then the flu aches for the Peg...maybe it's a flash back...

What works for me usually for my RA/neuro pain - Jacuzzi and champagne at the same time of course and maybe a dubbi if my hippi sis stops by. I feed my koi from the jacuzzi and look out over the valley lights - great view (Still UND at 2 months post - but was a rapid responder at 2 weeks)

Went to the neurologist yesterday - more test Spinal MRI - loads of blood work  - still trying to figure out the neuropathy and the stabbing back pains...hiping the RA will fade with the Rituxan.

Hey Max - I got a mega steroid injection from my Orthopod and felt so good that I jumped my horse in a show and then passed my mounted assistant Unit Forest Ranger certification - so on those good day's Matti and I will be dressed in blue and patroling the concerts in the park...great fun

Hugs to you all and to your horses...they keep me so strong!

[Pancho and Lefty]

hey Corb,

Manic people don't actually do anything. . . we move in circles turning a well ordered world into chaos. I was out most of the day and evening. . . got home around 10:30 pm and have been very busy doing nothing since. . . and it's after 2 am. I've just taken time out from my busyness to check things out here. Oh, and I did make it to chat for awhile.

And this has been a great day. Probably did a hundreds of things. . . some of them were actually necessary. 

Some days I don't move around in circles physically. . . I stick to the mental exercises. Those are the really exhausting days, but I'm pretty sure this is all normal for post tx. 

Great news about your Ranger cert. Sounds like fun.

Hey ALL you people out there. . . keep to the high road (there's a lot less traffic) 

Max




 


 

[negative1]

Hey Corbel,
 I could tell you manic stories all day long. Where should I start?

Near or right at the end of tx I became really manic. I would be really down, then I would wake up one morning and just be on top of the world. That is where it got bad. I would spend money!
My first shrink...saw him 3 months post....said that he thought I was manic or * bi-polar*, the new catch phrase, after my first session. Ok, so it seems that one of the characteristics of bi-polar is that you spend money like there was no tomorrow when you were on a *high*, then regret it when you were came down.

I went out and bought a new Suburban one day. The tax laws provided a one time deduction for a vehicle over 6,000 GVW. That was $55K. While there, I saw a brand new Corvette convertable. Three days later, I had made the deal and it was i my driveway. Got a great deal, but it was still another $60K. I then decided that I needed to put a $10K paint job with flames on the vette, then go  buy a Condo in Scottsdale AZ. I went there and bought 2. Oh yeah...did I forget to mention the $50K I spent of diamonds for Nicole?

I would be just high as hell on life one day, nothing was too big to tackle, then a few days later, regret what I had done and was on a downer. Hated my car, etc.

I have always been a little * spur of the moment* but this was out of control! And at the time, I argued with the shrink telling him that I saw nothing wrong with my habits and feelings, just depressed from the tx and the drugs. He put me on anti d's and meds for bi polar. I was on these for 3 years, but then as Susie said, they began to work in reverse and made me too wierd. I stopped those in Sept 07.

So there is one example of some of the things one might do when manic. The actual definition would probably be extreme highs followed by extreme lows....never really a middle ground and different people do different things while going through these stages.

I sure hope you get to feeling better soon. You have really suffered from the effects of this tx. It really hurts to read some of your posts and see how badly you suffer.

Earl

[Hank's mom]

Hey Corbi -

Manic is an interesting dance, a good partner can dip with ya and keep smiling - and, you'll even say thank you. I get the giddy/tragics every now and then, without warning and without time to warn the family. (Only the dog doesn't mind, or least complain - he knows who is the mistress of the kibble.)

Seeing as I didn't have Earl's bucks or bucked like Earl - I created my own CDs and do an awful lot of dancin and drivin - I remain amazed that there are no tickets for me to bury and hope for the best about.
I made one particularly odd selection that is my car player as we speak - Dirty Harry's famous "Do you feel lucky today - Do ya Punk?", bam bam, bam, then,  Shades of Blue's "Oh Happy You Have Made Me"; Samuel Jackson's "Blessed is he..." bible quote, blam, blam, blam, followed by Chris Isaak's "Let Me Down Easy" - Another favorite, though I shouldn't like it - verrrry sexist is Cheech's speech about, don't mean to offend, pu$$E monologue followed by Boyz to "Men, I'll Make Love to You" and Allen Iverson's On Practice  speech, then "Walk and Don't Look Back" sung by Tosh and Jagger, and so it goes... I think I'm a regular riot - anyone around me develops very fast feet. (For all I know, you may be doing that as you read.)

Needless to say, I flip-flop very nicely. I know I could save on electricity of I could hook up my "moods" to the house.

Keep smiling sweetheart,
Susie