M0onkist
Well-Known Member
It certain isn't the fault of anyone here!
To be honest, I've been dealing with some massive personal health issues - and I'll be honest about them.
It seems like my Dad's known for years that Singulair can, in 1 in 1000 cases, cause mental problems among other things. But he didn't know I was taking it.
Mom's known I've been taking it since I started (fall of '06), but had no idea of these side effects.
Finally, anyway, the two wires connected, and Mom realized that literally 3 days after starting Singulair, I started behaving oddly back then. Since then, as most of you know, I've had a contentious (to say the least) relationship with my parents. Things haven't been pretty, and I've wound up at the ER of the mental hospital 3 times.
I've since stopped Singulair, and it's been a roller coaster getting off it - I'm basically, according to my psychiatrist, a rapidly cycling bipolar-due-to-a-medication case. And by rapidly, I mean I'd go from manic to depressed to manic to depressed about 3-4 times a day (during the worst of it). Now I'm down to one roller-coaster of angry-weepy-exhausted a day, or thereabouts. So, progress!
Thankfully the university's been great in helping me fix the screwups I've had with my courses (I've had to miss a couple of term tests because of utter inability to write them, or remember anything, etc.), and my parents have welcomed me back with open arms. That's literally how it's felt - like I've been gone for years, and just got back home. I can't stop hugging them enough (or crying spontaneously when they do nice things for me).
So me not being here right now is really a function of having a bit of a manic brain and not being able to concentrate on one thing at a time, or to be able to sit down at a computer long enough to do more than check my e-mail or whatever. Can't say that it'll immediately improve either, but I'll at least come on to check how things are going at the 'Shack more often. If you do want to reach me, best way to do it is to respond to one of my threads, or to PM me (because those will be most obvious to me that someone's trying to reach me).
My AIM/MSN/YIM is mostly off, again due to inability to focus on one thing at a time or on one thing for more than like 10 seconds.
But I just want you guys and gals to know that I love you all, and that I'll be back as soon as my brain starts reverting to normalcy!
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N.B.: If you or anyone you love is on Singulair (which is normally a medication that people take orally to help control asthma related symptoms), PLEASE have them check the NEW updated medical spec-warning sheet (if it is any older than this summer, it's out of date, and have them tell the pharmacist to get the NEW one).
To be honest, I've been dealing with some massive personal health issues - and I'll be honest about them.
It seems like my Dad's known for years that Singulair can, in 1 in 1000 cases, cause mental problems among other things. But he didn't know I was taking it.
Mom's known I've been taking it since I started (fall of '06), but had no idea of these side effects.
Finally, anyway, the two wires connected, and Mom realized that literally 3 days after starting Singulair, I started behaving oddly back then. Since then, as most of you know, I've had a contentious (to say the least) relationship with my parents. Things haven't been pretty, and I've wound up at the ER of the mental hospital 3 times.
I've since stopped Singulair, and it's been a roller coaster getting off it - I'm basically, according to my psychiatrist, a rapidly cycling bipolar-due-to-a-medication case. And by rapidly, I mean I'd go from manic to depressed to manic to depressed about 3-4 times a day (during the worst of it). Now I'm down to one roller-coaster of angry-weepy-exhausted a day, or thereabouts. So, progress!
Thankfully the university's been great in helping me fix the screwups I've had with my courses (I've had to miss a couple of term tests because of utter inability to write them, or remember anything, etc.), and my parents have welcomed me back with open arms. That's literally how it's felt - like I've been gone for years, and just got back home. I can't stop hugging them enough (or crying spontaneously when they do nice things for me).
So me not being here right now is really a function of having a bit of a manic brain and not being able to concentrate on one thing at a time, or to be able to sit down at a computer long enough to do more than check my e-mail or whatever. Can't say that it'll immediately improve either, but I'll at least come on to check how things are going at the 'Shack more often. If you do want to reach me, best way to do it is to respond to one of my threads, or to PM me (because those will be most obvious to me that someone's trying to reach me).
My AIM/MSN/YIM is mostly off, again due to inability to focus on one thing at a time or on one thing for more than like 10 seconds.
But I just want you guys and gals to know that I love you all, and that I'll be back as soon as my brain starts reverting to normalcy!
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illred:[/left:nff8g3tx] [center:nff8g3tx]illred:[/center:nff8g3tx] [right:nff8g3tx]illred:[/right:nff8g3tx] N.B.: If you or anyone you love is on Singulair (which is normally a medication that people take orally to help control asthma related symptoms), PLEASE have them check the NEW updated medical spec-warning sheet (if it is any older than this summer, it's out of date, and have them tell the pharmacist to get the NEW one).
