Biaxin; regimen

[cjsmith]

Yes Biaxin causes stomach upset. Yay.
Yes Biaxin causes (or exacerbates) insomnia. Sleep aids, coming right up.

Regimen, for those who like to point and laugh:
Morning - 5 pills vitamin D3, 1 injection vitamin B12 (also inject kitty with insulin)
8am - 500mg Biaxin, with food
2pm (as far from the Biaxin as possible) - probiotic
8pm - 500mg Biaxin, with food (also give kitty insulin and 1/2 tablet Enalapril for blood pressure)
8pm 1x/week - fluconazole
Bedtime - hormones, sleeping pill

There's no way to keep this organized without little pill minders, so I'm carrying those again. I'm really not supposed to be this old yet. I was supposed to get a decade or two of middle age.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I skip placebos too, which is one of the best things that's happened to me in my entire life. (Seriously, I can count on one hand the things that have been that good to me: graduating from MIT, Rob, and getting my abdominal pain under control.)

That's cool that you can get back to sleep afterward. I have sleep-maintenance insomnia -- I can GET to sleep, but if I wake up any time after four or so hours of it, I usually can't RETURN to sleep no matter how tired I feel -- so that'd be tougher for me. But hey, we each have ways that work for us! :-)

I'm also glad to hear how well the supplements are working for Mira. That's awesome.

[rampling.livejournal.com]

Yeah skipping placebos is way up there in big life pluses! Makes me feel whole and human and not "down for periodic maintenance" (and ridiculous pointless misery) way too often.

And it *is* really quite tough to properly manage regular pills in my irregular life. But, with the help of The Pill Lady, I mostly manage. Not always easy.

I have sleep initiation problems (and waking problems), you have sleep maintenance problems. We each get dealt our challenges. Such fun... or something. ;)

It makes me extremely happy that the supplements are working well for mira_kitty!!! I rejoice every single time I see her walk into the bedroom and leap up onto my bed directly instead of choosing to use her kitty stairs on the other side of the bed. She used to use them *all the time* to get onto my bed, then she'd occasionally leap directly, but now she leaps directly almost *all the time*!! Though she usually uses the stairs to get down from the bed. But, wow!!, what a wonderful improvement and state of happy-mostly-healthy-catness!!! You can make a note for your future vet practice that this stuff can be *amazing* for kitty arthritis.

BTW, my sporadic LJ-visiting means I missed commenting 'bout Duchess' situation. I'm so sorry to hear she's going through such a difficult and scary time. I worry (but really try to not obsess) about when Mira will face big health issues (again). It's part of why I celebrate every single time I see her leaping or doing happy-cat things. I'm glad you said that Duchess didn't seem personally miserable outside the seizure episodes. At least that is a comfort. I wish both of you the best luck with dealing with it, and offer *HUGS* and *kitty-purrrrrrrs*.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

"Ridiculous pointless misery" is exactly the right way to put it. Ugh.

Yeah, I think Duchess probably feels just fine most of the time (although confused and disoriented when this hits) and me, I'm the worrier. Thanks! Hugs and kitty-purrs make a lot of things better.

[rampling.livejournal.com]

Hugs and kitty-purrs (and maybe some cheese) could save the world if we could just figure out the distribution problem!