Posts Tagged as ‘Medicine’

March 19, 2009

Someone

In my other blog, ‘Someone’ has become a handy shorthand for the boyfriend I don’t have. The one who exists purely in my mind, laughs at me good-naturedly and tries to hide the fact that he adores me, likes the things that I like, challenges me, spends rainy sunday mornings companionably drinking coffee and reading [...]

February 28, 2009

Retrospective Shocker.

Apparently when things got really bad last term my housemates were planning on ringing the health service and getting me transferred to Psych. 
It still surprises, shocks and terrifies me that I got to that point, where I wasn’t moving for hours on end, just staying in bed, waiting for time to pass. It never does. [...]

January 8, 2009

Feeling Good

Eh-up.
I came off the fluoxetine – what happened is that I ran out, and I got a repeat prescription but taking these things was clearly only making it worse for me. So, after a lengthy discussion with the pharmacist at Boots, the pharmacist from the chemist next door, the doctor, and a med student friend [...]

November 11, 2008

Time To Be Honest

The medication.
For all the reasons I worried about it the other day, I’ve still not started to take it. However, there was one other reason I didn’t really want to admit to there…which now means I’m going to have to give it an entire entry of its own because after all, I promised to be [...]