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I have not had any malabsorption issues, but I am low on B12 and Iron, and find that causes me to feel down, and not motivated to do anything. I get B12 shots, and iron IV infusions.
Talk to your doctor about your symptoms and the manic stuff, and ask for something for that.
How is your exercise program going? That effects mental health as well.
Are you in psychotherapy? That is an important component also. Medication only helps so much, therapy helps examine behavior and change.
Albert Schweitzer
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Good Tuesday Morning..
Today I am grateful..
For another day..
For the words I love you..
That I know I will be okay..
That I am loved..
For the ability to make half way decent choices..
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Video, about me, made by my best friend Yvonne.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gCxNTyRUo0
PEACE
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Once we surrendered and came to The Program, many of us wondered what we would do with all that time on our hands. All the hours we'd previously spent planning, hiding, alibiing, getting loaded, coming down, getting "well", juggling our accounts -- and all the rest -- threatened to turn into empty chunks of time that somehow had to be filled. We needed new energy previously absorbed by our addictions. We soon realized that substituting a new and different activity is far easier than just stopping the old activity and putting nothing in its place. AM I REDIRECTING MY MIND AND ENERGY?
TODAY I PRAY
I pray that, once free of the encumbrance of my addicition, I may turn to my Higher Power to discover for me how to fill my time constructively and creatively. May that same Power that makes human paths cross and links certain people to specific situations, lead me along good new roads into good new places.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Happenstance may be more than chance.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
Today I am grateful..
For a great weekend..
For self control
For getting to spend time with Stromboli..
For the men that jumped in, so unselfishly, to save my life, when I drowned last year. When I was spending time with Stromboli I realized had those men not jumped in. I would not have been able to spend time with him..
For Debra.. Thank you for everything this weekend.. I had a great time.. I love you..
Co-Founder
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Video, about me, made by my best friend Yvonne.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gCxNTyRUo0
PEACE
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I know that, when I was put on Welbutrin, I had to be weaned off my former anti-depressant and slowly put on the Welbutrin. I wouldn't worry about 7 pounds. Don't go overboard with a slight weight variation. It may take you a few weeks to get used to the meds. Allow them to work and do not go into a panic (no one said that you are). Changing antidepressants may have to be delayed if that is your only course of action. Ask your shrink if Welbutrin has weight gain as a side effect. There are many variable that may contribute to gaining up to around 10 pounds or so. Since you had a revision, you may think you know all that you need to know about your type of surgery. I had an open distal RNY on 11-14-2000 and had to have another RNY on 01-21-2005 due to staple line disruption. Unfortunately, I was depressed by the time I had my revision and didn't lose weight as fast as my surgeon wanted me to do. I talked to my shrink and he wouldn't change my meds to the Welbutrin until I was 9 mos post-op. But, then I did start losing some weight.
As to reading posts on this forum, you can quickly just pass by the spiritual and grateful posts. Most people who do that on a regular basis clearly use a subject line stating what they are writing about. Many other people try to write a clever line on other forums just so they will get a response.
You may also want to check out the Hunger and Food Troubles Forum. I know that using the Min Forum has become almost hopeless because it's just overused--kinda like Yogi Berra saying that that place is too crowded because nobody goes there anymore. Yeah, you can post and hope to get a response from the peopl who are available within the next hour. I prefer the slower moving forums.
again, not on the same meds, but my shrink allows me to split pills but not capsules. I only had to split pills in the first month or so post op. You may be able to get meds in liquid form. The one thing I was told about absorption was to not take any delayed release meds with RNY. Check with your surgeon and shrink.
I'm just a little curious as to using the term sobriety instead of abstinence. Then, again, I guess more people understand sobriety.
In my case, Abstinence means not eating sugar and white flour.
06/24 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
The primary purpose of The Program is freedom from addiction; without that freedom we have nothing. But that doesn't mean I can say, for example, "Sobriety is my only concern. Except for my drinking, I'm really a super person, so give me sobriety, and I've got it made." If I delude myself with such specious nonsense, I'll make so little progress with my real life problems and responsibilities that I'll likely return to my addiction. That's why The Program's Twelfth Step urges us to "practice these principles in all our affairs." AM I LIVING JUST TO BE FREE OF CHEMICAL DEPENDENCE, OR ALSO TO LEARN, TO SERVE, AND TO LOVE?
TODAY I PRAY
May I relish and be grateful for my sobriety, which is where all good things begin. But let me not stop at that and give up trying to understand myself, the nature of God and of humanity. Freedom from dependency is the first freedom. May I be certain that there are more to come -- freedom from tight-mindedness, from the unrest of bottled-up feelings, from over-dependence on others, from a Godless existence. May The Program which answered my acute needs also answer my chronic ones.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Sobriety is just a beginning.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin