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Still Chugging Along

It has been almost a month now since the terrible effects of the prednisone. 

 This morning I gave 50 mg hydroxyzine and 500mg of phenibut and she still said she wasn't feeling great at 11:30am. So I gave her 3 droppers of Valerian Calm, which seems to offer a small boost of happiness sometimes. 

 I stopped her 5HTP and replaced it with 10mg of fluoxatine. But yesterday she said she was having a hard time peeing. So if that happens again we will have to re-evaluate. 

 After she is comfortable on an SSRI I want to start the minocycline antibiotic, but I don't want to do that until I get her SSRI support up incase the antibiotic makes her feel worse I read minocylcine can have negative psychiatric effects for some people). I have maxed out her supports with the phenibut and the hydroxyzine and have nothing left to give if the minocycline does something weird neurological too. 

So to support myself, I took 20mg of fluoxatine (prozac) last night and feel weird today. But I also took 50mg of hydroxyzine about half an hour ago and am starting to feel more normal. This morning I was able to get out of bed and do all the meds and make breakfast for the whole family. It is hard now with all the food restrictoins. I made pancakes out of GF flour, a mushed banana, salt and Ripple milk and water. They were OK, Everyone ate them. I made it a priority to sit down with a cup of camomile tea and eat my pancakes for a few minutes. I have lost so much weight through this stress. It is hard to put food in my mouth but I do it becuase I know I need to. I also have to be GFCF becuase of some thyroid bs I just found out about...not a bit deal, nothing urgent but a bit headed to hashimoto or something...but can be reveresed by GFCF. I also can't eat eggs. 

 It is strange how My oldest is so different from her brother. She can't take clonidine or propranolol as a support for her anxiety, without getting terribly depressed. So that eliminates two supports that are not addictive. I'm the same way as her though. Thank goodness for hydroxyzine. I'm sure it has something horrible about it too... but right now it is a help. 
 1. keep putting up fluoxatine but be vigilant to see if it causes her to not be able to pee 
2. Keep doing the supports, knowing that when the SSRI is effective enough we can slowly wean off the Phenibut 
3. After she is stable, try the minocyclene again. 
4. Hopefully a doctor will order the test for her to see what is the best SSRI for her brain chemistry. There is a test https://genesight.com that lets you know what the righ SSRI is for you so you don't have to go through the agony of trying the wrong ones first. 

 So that is where we are now. I don't know if she is a bit worse today and yesterday because I put her Prozac up, or if becasue yesterdy I only did 25 mg hydroxyzene in the morning and that threw her off?? Anyway, this morning we went back to the normal regiment and lets hope this afternoon we can wait until 4pm for the next dose.

She isn't doing well, even with her supports maxed out. I'll take her some camomile tea. She sits on her bed and plays the Sims. If I mention school works she has a panic attack.

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