[FRIAM] Eternal questions

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Yeah, I'm lucky that I don't feel much depression or sadness. I do sporadically (like yesterday morning) feel an intense sense of *impending doom*. If it's anything like depression, I feel for y'all. It's stultifying and very difficult to wiggle out of. Both my mobility and weight-lifting workouts get me out of it, though. Running does not.

W.r.t. your PCP's suggestion, I'm skeptical. During my chemo/obinituzumab treatment, the medical staff dosed me with benadryl and zofran (anti-nausea). The relatively small dose of benadryl gave me restless leg. And the zofran did nothing at all. So, I refused the zofran for the remaining treatments and told them to back off to what they claimed was a "homeopathic dose" of benadryl. They just claimed I was "extra sensitive". (FWIW, I also tried to opt out of the the prednisone ... that went horribly awry quite badly. Renee' broke her arm, but avoided telling me "I told ya so.")


On 8/24/21 10:39 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> I feel moments of depression from time to time.  They feel to me like heaviness in my chest more than anything attached to reality although sometimes it's stimulated by a thought like "that dusty lightbulb may never be cleaned" or some other trivial and irrelevant detail.  It doesn't feel like the sadness I feel about the twin babies who were drowned in the flood in Tennessee.  When I tell my PCP about this he suggests medication.  I can believe that it's a biochemical phenomenon so I'm taking a tiny (5 mg) dose of Citalopram once a day.  My doc says that's a homeopathic dose.
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> It didn't help when EricS pointed out that the eighties are the age of dying 😐

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