An experience with Napolean Dynamite.

So, today I went to get one of my dermabrasions. The person who does them, Debbie, was really amused by my shirt and it reminded her of the movie (keep in mind she's 40 something if I had to guess), and kept complaining about her son who is my age always acts like that and does it all the time on the phone. lol. This is going on while she's happily sucking my face away and grinding it down and gleefully picking at my face, explaining how it's so great that she can do this so she doesn't have the urge to pick at her own face. lol. My technician is great. She also seems to think that this was the 5th time and not the 6th. Maybe she is right or maybe I was wrong, either way, I have another one in 2 weeks because of this. I was ready to pay for 6 more ($540), but I'll do that next time. We moved up to the extra course wand and used a pressure of 12, the highest I've gone so far and it really didn't hurt much if anything. Just a weird sensation. I want to get up to 30 pressure, since that's how far the machine goes. I want more removal of my ugly face. She commented on my hair when she touched it by accident and was like wow it's so soft and then touched it again and couldn't believe how soft it was. She's fun and crazy and makes the whole procedure a lot less scary with her talking about her kids and all of that, and making weird remarks like that once in a while.

This is my second day on adderall XR, 10mg to start with and in 5 more days it will increase to 20mg. I will see the psychiatrist in about 3 weeks to evaluate how it's working or not working and we'll go from there. I'm really wary and scared of going the MAOI route and being on Parnate, I don't think I can handle the dietary changes really well. It'll be really tough. And then there is the issue of being off my medications for an entire 2 weeks before we are able to start Parnate and I don't know what that would do to my mood. Well there are a few things to explore before being on Parnate and she wasn't adverse to me trying stimulants before, and she thinks we might increase my lithium, or possibly mess around with my thyroid some more. It all has a sense of uncertainity to it. She's had experience with patients on Parnate, but not people like me who prefer odd polypharmy and I still have ideas there to combine with my Effexor -- Wellbutrin and Remeron primarily. I'll have to bring that up next time. I'm still on Seroquel too. I do admit that it makes me sleep longer, but it also kind of makes me tired when I wake up. It takes a few hours for it to wear off. Well, until the next time I see her. I'll enjoy my ability to read somewhat. I read a magazine today! Heh. Not that exciting of an accomplishment, but I was able to concentrate and not lose interest, that is good.