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[raven]

I am being useless. This is clear. It is a result of unspecified neuralgia and resulting brain fog, and while I'm not in continuous pain any more I do seem to spend an awful lot of time wandering into rooms and forgetting what I went in there for and forgetting that to send cheques you need to sign them and forgetting that plugs need pins otherwise they do not fit and forgetting how to spell "appropriate" and "profession" and "commune" and other multisyllabic words I have been reliably able to spell since small-childhood.

This is... not good. Especially as I am still an unsponsored, umemployed layabout, and the odds of my getting a training contract whilst having difficulty with shoelaces seem slim to minimal. Life is certainly not all bad - last weekend, for example, Katie and Shim and I went to the zoo! And saw elephants! and it was actually the best thing ever! - but could be, you know, better.

Anyway. I mention this only because I have finally got myself registered with a GP, and had my head examined (no, really), and amoxycillin, prescription analgesia and good old-fashioned opiates having succeeded in shifting the pain but not the lack of cognitive function, they have suggested citalopram. I am not sure what I think about this. That said, this is just a placeholder - I may well be even more crap than usual when it comes to, you know, replying to email and doing what I'm supposed to and suchlike, and so I ask for patience. I now return you to your regularly-scheduled programming.

Comments

[rosariotijeras.livejournal.com]

My brain often hurts in ways different from yours, but I've been on just about every other SSRI over the past year and they helped a lot with the physical brain hurt (though not the mental, which is what they were for, which is why I am not on them). I know that's not quite your point, but there you go.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I am not entirely on board with the off-lable prescribing, but four days in I'm feeling a bit better, so we shall see.

[chiasmata]

xxxx

Tonight we shall go to IKEA! (I will probably be home by 5.30ish, having vanquished the DNA for the time being.)

[that_mireille]

*hugs*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetie.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Feel better.

And what is a training contract, pray tell? Unless you don't want to talk about it, which I would completely understand. Who wants to talk about career stuff? NOT ME.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

It is a thing. It is a thing where a law firm employs you as a trainee, so they educate you and employ you at the same time so you get paid and when you finish it - it's two years - you're fully qualified and go on the Law Society's list of qualified practioners. The thing is, most firms tend to recruit two years in advance. So if I want one for when I finish my course in 2010, I need to apply now. It is, um, soul-destroying.

[amchau.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I hope you feel better soon, my dear. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much, you're very sweet.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Feel better soon, you.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*hugs* thankyou.

[tau_sigma]

Oh, that is not good. *hugs* Elephants! What kind of elephants did you see, Indian or African?

Much patience, dear, and much love to you. Good luck with the citalopram, and I really hope it helps. Your brain fog does not sound at all pleasant.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Asian elephants, yesyes. They were lovely. There were two babies, one about a year old and the other about four months old, and they brought the older one out and had it show off everything they'd trained it to do - lie down on command, hold up its feet to be pedicured, snarf apples - and it grinned and looked so cute I just melted into goo.

Thank you. The citalopram is doing me a bit of good, I think; four days in I feel a bit better.