Questions of the Day

[psluke]

Starting off the morning with some questions! The reason this is on a separate thread is David is going to read it. So you guys watch what you post you hear!! JK. He may also post here, he is not going to read my personal thread and if he starts a personal thread I will not be reading his thread.

These are obviously my take on the situation and not necessarily David's.

First I feel David and I have improved our general communication habits. We don't get upset as quickly with one another, ask for more clarification and I believe even share things more in a positive way.

But when we are stressed for whatever reason, tired, sick, outside influences or particularly with one another I think we go back to our old communication habits/problems. We then end up frustrated, emotional and upset with one another. When I don't believe that is either of our intentions. I think we are both trying, we are just not being clear to the other person in the way we are communicating at the time. Which ends up leaving us frustrated and drained feeling.

I am wondering if anyone else who has had bad communication habits has ideas on working through and improving them, especially during stress periods when it is probably MOST important to communicate clearly.

My second question is on AD's. David feels I need to contact the doctor to see about having the dosage adjusted. I have considered it. Reasons I haven't are:

1. When I did call the doctor, the lady she had call back said the doctor said just need to give medicine time to build back up.

2. My pharmacist friend says it can take 4 - 6 weeks to build up in system and I haven't been back on the medication that long.

3. I feel like I am still improving. I have mostly had a good week this week. PMA up, no down periods. Struggled a bit Wednesday but with help here I dealt with it!! Which was a good boost for the PMA. Yesterday went to the cellar. I don't think all the caffine yesterday helped me.

4. Shiny says they don't stop you from feeling bad or good. Just help you control it. So maybe where I am at is normal for what the medication is supposed to be doing for me.

Reasons for seeing about getting dosage adjusted:

1. I am tired of feeling emotionaly down. Although that has been much better this week.

2. I am very tired of getting down and then turning to David to help deal with it, thus leading to us getting stressed and having communication problems. Which tends to lead me further down my spiral.

3. I have not since going back on the medication totally got the suicidal thoughts out of my head. They go away for awhile, but if I get real down they come back. Would upping the dosage help in this area or is this something that has to be managed with your thought process?

Just hoping some of you who know more about this stuff will post some of your thoughts on them for me.