Celexa Notes
Apr. 30th, 2011 08:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Sooooo... since starting Celexa, twice now, right about 5am, my blood sugar has tanked. There's been no warning - just, zoooooom outta gas. Both times have happened on nights when all I ate for dinner was protein & veggies (like broccoli or lima beans). Last night, I did have a RockStar around 11pm, & some fruit gummies around 1am, so it wasn't like I went 9pm - 5am with nothing, which is what happened the time before that.
Usually, I have 'normal', and I mean dead-center normal blood sugar. If I go eight hours or so without eating, I'll get hungry, perfectly normal thing to happen. If I push it to twelve, like for fasting blood tests, I'll start getting the forehead-hunger headache (thinking about it, though, the last time I fasted for bloodwork was after starting Celexa and I was fucking starving & the bloodwork came back w/a low sugar count). If I keep pushing it, like twenty-four hours (surgery) or more (spiritual), I get dizzy, light-headed, shaky, start feeling like I'm going to fly apart on the inside, blurred vision, all the special effects of the onset of an altered state of consciousness. But what all this gets to is that I know my blood sugar is dropping & there are warning signs.
These past two times have hit me with absolutely no warning. I almost fainted in the freaking elevator at work this morning. I was fine one minute, the next everything went woobly, my stomach became an empty pit, my whole body felt like a vacuum that was going to shatter into pieces & I started shaking. I almost didn't make it back to the front desk.
I don't know exactly how to proceed. The Celexa has shut off the suicide dialogues, I found out yesterday that I'm not inorgasmic (a common side-effect), I can manage the drowsiness... but the no-warning blood sugar drop is alarming. It doesn't seem to be doing anything else for me - I'm not feeling more 'up' or more motivated, and in fact I can tell I'm feeling a little more down today than I have the past week - I'd like to blame it on the wind or maybe the fluctuations in my blood sugar, but no, I'm just more down. I've been on the Celexa for almost a month and after the near-stroke, I'm nervous about stopping any medication suddenly. I don't know if I should get a blood sugar test kit & start monitoring myself, or just make sure I have a quick source of carbs (& my cell phone) on me at all times until I see the psychiatrist on the 10th.
Usually, I have 'normal', and I mean dead-center normal blood sugar. If I go eight hours or so without eating, I'll get hungry, perfectly normal thing to happen. If I push it to twelve, like for fasting blood tests, I'll start getting the forehead-hunger headache (thinking about it, though, the last time I fasted for bloodwork was after starting Celexa and I was fucking starving & the bloodwork came back w/a low sugar count). If I keep pushing it, like twenty-four hours (surgery) or more (spiritual), I get dizzy, light-headed, shaky, start feeling like I'm going to fly apart on the inside, blurred vision, all the special effects of the onset of an altered state of consciousness. But what all this gets to is that I know my blood sugar is dropping & there are warning signs.
These past two times have hit me with absolutely no warning. I almost fainted in the freaking elevator at work this morning. I was fine one minute, the next everything went woobly, my stomach became an empty pit, my whole body felt like a vacuum that was going to shatter into pieces & I started shaking. I almost didn't make it back to the front desk.
I don't know exactly how to proceed. The Celexa has shut off the suicide dialogues, I found out yesterday that I'm not inorgasmic (a common side-effect), I can manage the drowsiness... but the no-warning blood sugar drop is alarming. It doesn't seem to be doing anything else for me - I'm not feeling more 'up' or more motivated, and in fact I can tell I'm feeling a little more down today than I have the past week - I'd like to blame it on the wind or maybe the fluctuations in my blood sugar, but no, I'm just more down. I've been on the Celexa for almost a month and after the near-stroke, I'm nervous about stopping any medication suddenly. I don't know if I should get a blood sugar test kit & start monitoring myself, or just make sure I have a quick source of carbs (& my cell phone) on me at all times until I see the psychiatrist on the 10th.
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Date: 2011-05-01 04:37 pm (UTC)Shakin' the Bacon
Date: 2011-05-01 07:29 pm (UTC)Of course, I'm up at noon because today is an Elavil skip day. I think I'm going to start skipping days on the Celexa instead of the Elavil & see how that works out.