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7:24pm May 1, 2014

I’m feeling better than last night.

I got some sleep finally this afternoon.  And I’ve raised my Trileptal dose back to where it was before I decreased it yesterday.  I’ll experiment with decreasing it another time, but it’s going to be a time when I’m much less vulnerable to stress, because stress + nerve pain = suckage.

And speaking of stress, I did stress-dose tonight on the dexamethasone just in case, because even though there was no single stressful event last night, last night was very stressful both physically and emotionally.  I didn’t double the dose, I just went from 2.5 mL to 4 mL.  But hopefully that will get me through this okay.

I’m quite exhausted, still.  And I can feel the edges of the nerve pain trying to come back a little.  But I feel so much better than this morning.  I just hope this doesn’t jinx it, because I felt lousy this morning.  Also took a bit of lorazepam tonight, because that won’t just help with the anxiety, it’ll help with the nerve pain a bit too, I’ve found.  I rarely take it and rarely take much, but when it’s needed it’s needed.