Medication Reviews
Hey guys long time no talk i know i do a lot of talking on here about career life path being true to yourself but i wanted to make this video a little bit more personal and gone to depth about the type of medication that i take how it works how much of it i take if you want to know any information about it it’s gonna be in length and detailed all right hmm so
First just to get a few things out of the way i want to talk about the vitamins that i take because you know it’s a part of your mental health it’s a part of your physical health i got blood work done and i just got a bunch of tests like about my potassium my cholesterol my iron levels and things like that and for vitamins i take centrum for women’s multivitamin
It’s got a ton of different things in it so that i take that just in general i take omega-3 500 milligram fish oil i was suggested to take this because my cholesterol was high you can have high cholesterol because of eating like carbohydrates or salt or things like that and the pharmacist at walgreens told me that the fish oil can help lower your cholesterol it
Makes the good cholesterol which come back to the bad cholesterol and i was taking it and it actually did lower my cholesterol yeah so it worked i got tested my blood tested again and it worked i take biotin plus carotene 10,000 mcg i take it because i’m growing my hair out really long and it’s for skin and nails but basically i really wanted to grow my hair out
And help with that so i took biotin and then i am anemic especially during my pee period i know a lot of young females in the early 20s late 20s have this issue so i take iron and that has brought my iron up and my potassium was low so i added orange juice i asked if i should take potassium in the pill form and the farmer has basically said that they don’t really
Sell potassium in pill form enough to make a difference because it can be dangerous levels and you can get more from eating a banana or drinking orange juice so i started drinking orange juice everyday and that raised it brought my potassium up to a great level so now that that’s all the way that’s what i take as far as vitamins and minerals to help with my mood my
Body and my physicality i also starting april first i worked out and when i lived in la but since i’ve been back to connecticut i started working out april first it’s may night so april may so it’s been about a month and a half of me working out so i get my blood pumping and moving alright one other thing i need to get off my chest about my health is i have high
Blood pressure yes i’m only 29 years old i’ll be 30 in july i’m not supposed to have high blood pressure i don’t know if it’s a combination of what i eat or if it’s stress or and i know it has a lot to do with genetics because it runs in my family but i have really bad high blood pressure and i take m/m load of pain which is the generic for norvasc ten milligrams
At night and in addition to lisinopril 30 milligrams about ten milligrams thirty milligrams every morning for my blood pressure and i have a blood pressure cuff that i have to write down with my blood pressure is and that’s what i’m on for right now too my blood pressure now for the mental health portion this is what i really wanted to get into so i suffer from
Major depressive disorder um schizophrenia anxiety ptsd i was diagnosed bipolar but i’m not sure how much of that is significant to me but those are the things that i deal with i have hypnagogic hallucinations which happened between waking and sleeping i started hearing voices like later in my 20s i started seeing hallucinations later in my 20s it would start
Off like early in my early 20s some stuff would only happen when i would smoke weed and i noticed my highs were like different than other people’s or if i had an edible it would have a very bad episode and then it got to a point where these things were happening without me smoking or any edibles at all it just happened on its own and i realized that i developed
Schizophrenia so but anyway with schizophrenia there are phases that mimic depression so i’ve made you depressive disorder and schizophrenia so i get very low and lethargic and very depressed for me my depression is kind of an extremely unmotivated lethargic tired hazy uninterested and feeling of lack of wanting to even exist other people noticed it in me like a
Lot of people when i was in south carolina a lot of people ask me how much medication i was on because i had this doped up kinda zombie-like aura to me and it also didn’t help that at the time i was taking haldol haldol is a horrible antipsychotic and it’ll really like dope you up but besides that without the haldol i had i was really like hazy and out of it you
Could tell that there was something up with me so like even at my job when i first started my job and said that i was really slow and like one of my co-workers this is what i was like not taking anything one of my co-workers asked me if i was high and like i would go this is i’m only mentioning this for people other people who suffer because i know how it can be
So i’m taking one for the team but there are times when i would go days without showering without like taking care of myself just stuck to the bed or like i’m drinking to ease my anxiety just drinking and laying there and doing nothing and not wanting to move and just being a blob of just blob i still get depression but as you can see i’m very more active i’m not
Talking slow i’m not like a zombie i’m more up and up and i am on you pro prion 300 milligrams that’s the higher dose of you propionic this definitely helped with my depression it helped me get up and be more active and at first when i started my job i was working very very little to no shifts and it was bad because i was making enough money but it was good because
I don’t know if i could have handled any more than that but i had to work in order to eat now i’m working more and showering and taking care of my hair and and to makeup and going places tom from here and there and w propria on definitely really helped well one thing that i can say about it is it does give you anxiety at first it’s like can make you jittery and i
Would recommend like sticking through with it but if you have bad bad anxiety that i wouldn’t take it i just know that this medicine is really good with getting slumped with are two people up and active so i bit the bullet let my body adjust to it kept taking it because i needed something strong to help me i’m awesome on sertraline 150 milligrams so a hundred and
One pill 15 another that’s the generic version of zola oh yeah and bupropion is the new york version of wellbutrin but sertraline is the generic version of zoloft so that’s another antidepressant now when i was just on the do pro prion it helped me become more active but it didn’t help like as much with the anxiety thoughts of like self-deprecating thoughts just
Like going in a little mind tangent of just being out of it like not thinking good things and the zoloft that definitely helped with my mood i was definitely got happier it helped definitely a lot so i take 300 milligrams of you pro prion and 150 milligrams of sertraline every morning along with my vitamins and listen to pro for my high blood pressure now what
And and i put it all in this thing cuz it’s so many pills and i have most it’s mostly vitamins but i put it in this and i take it all at once now for the evening i take ‘la to de 60 and 80 which equals 160 yeah 160 milligrams of latoya for an anti-psychotic a lot of people don’t know that it works as an anti-psychotic now how da will make you into a zombie it’s
A dates the hell out of you so latina does not sedate you latina got rid of the voices the involuntary bodily movements that i had a lot of the vivid dreams a lot of the hallucinations that i would see like i would think that people were talking to me when they weren’t connecting with me when they weren’t and it would be like the actual people’s voices when i was
Like really into spirituality i confused it for it being real and i’m like really connecting with people but when i took the latina most of that stopped like i’d say 95% of the psychotic symptoms stop to take the latina i’m on a used to be 180 but there’s this feeling that comes with with antipsychotics of like i forget what it’s called but it’s kind of feels like
When you’re jumping out of your skin kind of like in an anxiety like you can’t sit still like i had that kind of anxiety that would come on in the evening because i was on such a high dose of lotito and so to counteract that we put me down to 160 instead of 180 and now i take 3 10 milligrams of propanol law for anxiety so 30 milligrams at night along with the 160
Latina approach for panel all together to stop my anxiety and jitteriness that comes with taking an antipsychotic i’d say everything is pretty much fine with me like sometimes i’ll hear voices in the background of like like keys typing or like when i’m peeing like the trickling i’ll hear like voices coming out and the trickle in on my pee when i pee or like in
The like the background of things like with typing and stuff and i don’t go out the way i used to go out like i used to go out all the time on the weekends but like i’m a really huge homebody i get socially exhausted like basically this medication made me a normal person to deal with very low activity so i have a very decent job i work decent hours i go out here
And there but i don’t rip and run like if i ripped and run i would have more anxiety like the medicine helps make me normal now for that i still like if i could do one thing to my medicine regimen i know i have a lot of medicine that i’m already taking but if i could do add something to my medicine regimen it would be to add something to the anxiety that i feel in
The afternoon/evening like the pro panel law and the lowering of the lotito definitely helped but i still feel like a little bit of anxiety like sometimes throughout the day like anxiousness so i bought cbd oil i bought a different brand and it was 300 milligrams and it’s it absolutely not like i held under my tongue for 60 seconds like it said i tried it for
Many days and it did nothing at all i even took double the dosage in didn’t do anything and then i got this a thousand milligrams per bottle and i’ve been trying this out and so far i don’t really notice too much of a difference in what i’m wanting to change in my mood but i’m still giving it a shot if anything that i probably add i think i need like one more
Medicine honestly i know it’s a lot of medicine but i didn’t know that mental illness would hit me so heavily so strongly and so potently like there was a time when i had edible and i was like a couple times and i was just like extremely hallucinogenic even when i smoked like really strong weed extremely hallucinogenic and in front of people and they’re just like
Brittany something’s up with you and it started to turn into me dealing with those symptoms without weed at all so i and i suffer from chronic migraine but that’s another story i’m just all beat up i’m on disability so i but i work part-time but um yeah i have chronic migraine i just started getting botox for that so wish me luck but i’ve been managing my mental
Health with all these medications and i’d like to talk and i’m in therapy and stuff so yeah and then for nighttime i have another one of these that i take so i have to use morning night and that’s the medicine and that’s my experience on the medication ‘la tutor works very good to calm the anti psychotic symptoms the propanolol it’s also used to lower high blood
Pressure but even with three different medications that can be used for high blood pressure i still sometimes out of high blood pressure i don’t know why i’m only 29 help me anyway that’s it that’s basically all the medication that i take and if you have any questions about wellbutrin zoloft or pannalal the tuda any of the things that i mentioned let me know alright bye
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My Meds: Latuda, Buproprion, Sertraline, Propranolol, etc. A Review By Brittany Virginia Green
