beccabecca66
Vitamins and Pills and more Pills
Dec 04, 2010
I had my 1 month follow up with the nurse practitioner this past week. She gave me the go ahead to stop crushing my pills and take them whole. She suggested that I take each pill 5 minutes apart until I knew how my stomach would handle them. I was so excited to give up crushing my meds. That was a huge pain in the ass.That was the good news. The 'bad' news is that she gave me the list of vitamins that I am to start taking. I have so many bottles in front of me...its almost overwhelming. I thought I had a pretty good routine down before. But now I'm really gonna have to schedule things out. The list of meds and vitamins:
Calcium Citrate + D-one pill twice a day
Iron (Ferrous Gluconate)- once a day
Vitamin D - twice a week
Vitamin B12 - once a day
Ursodiol (for the gall bladder)- twice a day
Abilify- once a day
Trileptal- once a day
Cymbalta- once a day
Lamictal- once a day
Multivitamin- twice a day
Phew, I think thats it. so, five minutes per pill, some twice a day... I think i need a whole hour dedicated to meds. And I can't forget drinking my water/crystal light. And milk twice a day. And did I get enough protein in today? What about an hour of exercise? And they say this is the easy way out. Ha!
Sybl Partridge wrote a poem called "Just for Today." One line in the poem is "Just for today, i will have a quiet half hour all by myself, and relax. During this half hour, sometime, I will try to get a better perspective of my life."
I can't forget the greater picture of my life. Even with all the activity and tasks surrounding the surgery and upkeep of the surgery, I need to take some time just for me to collect who I am and gather inner peace. So yes, I have to worry about eating, exercising, meds, fluids, bipolar, etc... but I also need to worry about my psyche and wellbeing.
