Post by coolhandluke on Nov 21, 2005 14:55:07 GMT -5
Hey everyone, sorry I haven't been here in awhile. I don't have the internet at home anymore, so it's kind of hard to post that often.
I have stopped picking. Totally, completely, 100% pick-free.
I battled with student health services at my college to get me on a dopamine antagonist called Zyprexa, but there was so much HMO red tape that it never happened. So when my mom (who's a minister) did a burial in my college town, she ran into a doctor at the funeral, and they started talking. My mom mentioned to him that I wanted to be a neurologist but that I struggled in school because of my ADHD and that I took Ritalin for it. The doctor said he sometimes prescribed Ritalin to his patients to help them sleep. When my mom told me this, I made up my mind to get an appointment with him. Any doctor who was that creative with prescription was a doctor for me. So I got an appointment with him, told him about my picking and everything that I had tried to do to stop, and the research I had done on picking and how my grandmother has schizophrenia and how I figured I probably had excessive dopamine activity that was contributing to my picking. So my doctor, who happens to be a Fulbright scholar and did his Fulbright work in India for a year, prescribed me this new drug called Symbyax, which has Prozac and Zyprexa in the same pill. It's very expensive, but it has changed my life.
I stopped picking within two days of my first dose. My generalized anxiety symptoms are eradicated, too, more so than they ever have been while on Paxil, Lexapro, etc. The pill contains a very low dosage of Zyprexa (6 mg), but it's just enough to stop my picking and calm the storm of anxiety in my head. It even helps my ADHD by keeping me less fidgety and more apt to stay on top of deadlines.
It's not without side effects---I've put on about thirty pounds (!), but even that had something good come out of that, because I've taken up running at the gym, so I've kept myself from gaining any more weight. Sometimes I feel bad about the extra weight, but then when I put on a t-shirt and don't think twice about my arms (the scars are fading slowly but surely), I know that it's worth it. Weight can be taken off with diet and exercise, but for me, picking had no other solution.
So I just wanted to share this with you, because it looks like that at last, my long dark journey is over. I truly thank God for that.
Love you all,
cool hand luke
p.s.--I'll try to check up on the board more often, and if anyone wants to email me, my address is terranova82@hotmail.com
I have stopped picking. Totally, completely, 100% pick-free.
I battled with student health services at my college to get me on a dopamine antagonist called Zyprexa, but there was so much HMO red tape that it never happened. So when my mom (who's a minister) did a burial in my college town, she ran into a doctor at the funeral, and they started talking. My mom mentioned to him that I wanted to be a neurologist but that I struggled in school because of my ADHD and that I took Ritalin for it. The doctor said he sometimes prescribed Ritalin to his patients to help them sleep. When my mom told me this, I made up my mind to get an appointment with him. Any doctor who was that creative with prescription was a doctor for me. So I got an appointment with him, told him about my picking and everything that I had tried to do to stop, and the research I had done on picking and how my grandmother has schizophrenia and how I figured I probably had excessive dopamine activity that was contributing to my picking. So my doctor, who happens to be a Fulbright scholar and did his Fulbright work in India for a year, prescribed me this new drug called Symbyax, which has Prozac and Zyprexa in the same pill. It's very expensive, but it has changed my life.
I stopped picking within two days of my first dose. My generalized anxiety symptoms are eradicated, too, more so than they ever have been while on Paxil, Lexapro, etc. The pill contains a very low dosage of Zyprexa (6 mg), but it's just enough to stop my picking and calm the storm of anxiety in my head. It even helps my ADHD by keeping me less fidgety and more apt to stay on top of deadlines.
It's not without side effects---I've put on about thirty pounds (!), but even that had something good come out of that, because I've taken up running at the gym, so I've kept myself from gaining any more weight. Sometimes I feel bad about the extra weight, but then when I put on a t-shirt and don't think twice about my arms (the scars are fading slowly but surely), I know that it's worth it. Weight can be taken off with diet and exercise, but for me, picking had no other solution.
So I just wanted to share this with you, because it looks like that at last, my long dark journey is over. I truly thank God for that.
Love you all,
cool hand luke
p.s.--I'll try to check up on the board more often, and if anyone wants to email me, my address is terranova82@hotmail.com