Topic Tuesday // Managing side effects of medication // Tues. 17 Apr. 7pm - 9pm AEST

[Shaz51]

Thank you @Former-Member, @Former-Member. @Liss23 for your encouragement , I have just told my Mr shaz so fingers crossed for the further

share more about the challenges in your day to day life have you faced when dealing with these side effects?

ammm @Former-Member, My mr shaz finds it very very hard to get up and  get started in the morning , as we are self employed on a verryyylow income

next when we come home for lunch, he will fall asleep after lunch , and after a few hours of work his anxiety rises , panic attacks start

we try to get home early as mr shaz gets worse , dizzyness, forgets peoples name and what we are doing next , and then in bed early

[Charli]

@Dave1977 I’m sure I said some random things while I was asleep!! I had to get it changed as I was being ‘spoken to’ by my manager.

[Liss23]

@Former-Member I throw up or can't go lol

[Former-Member]

Welcome along tonight @Ambinorm1 and @FarmersWife - great to have you here and sharing with us.

As you can all understand, I can't always reply to each one of you as the discussion moves quickly and my fingers just can't type fast enough (sigh!) but I do want to comment here at this point, that already the challenges you are all mentioning are very very difficult and there is no two ways about that. I know it can be hard to push past this but I wanted to flag how amazing you all are for even sharing these things here tonight. It takes a lot of strength to even share the side effects you deal with and the way it impacts you. 

I hope no matter what, you can all feel a small sense of achievement in doing that here tonight - I am grateful for your openness. 

With that said lets move on to a bit of workshopping of ideas!

What are or have been some ways or tools you have tried to manage side effects in your day to day lives?

Doesn’t matter if they weren’t useful in the end – this question is about bringing up all the ideas there may be in management of side effects. Maybe something that didn’t work for you may work for someone else!

[Ambinorm1]

I stated walking now gotten lazy again. But it’s he easiest exercise and pets are wonderful

[Dave1977]

The horrible downside is that I don't have any confidence to meet anyone romantically, let alone think about doing the deed. It's been more than 5 years... And that makes me feel incredibly alone and sad just thinking about it.

[CheerBear]

In terms of day to day challenges, something I have found has been really needing to watch what I was eating. One med I used a while ago, had the side effect of increased appetite and I felt so hungry all of the time. I put on quite a lot of weight with it. The most recent med I tried needed me to maintain food intake (something about blood pressure and sugar maybe) which wasn't easy when eating was something I was struggling with a lot at the time. I found myself very unwell because of it.

I can relate to so many of the posts here tonight. It is a bit depressing @Bunniekins.

[Former-Member]

@Former-Member @Liss23 - humor does help with these things! 

[Ambinorm1]

I eventually got used to it. Our body’s develop tolerant to them i suppose

[Liss23]

If you don't laugh you cry 🙂