Cooler head

Okay, I had forgotten to mention something else that was bugging the heck out of me yesterday. Yesterday was day 2 of my tongue feeling like a fuzzy coated numbness. I noticed over lunch that I wasn't tasting salty things, and I have to slow down when speaking so that people can understand what I'm trying to say.

I figured that since this was the second day it happened, and this was the second day after taking a nighttime pill to help my itching. I've already noticed a postive effect.

I knew I had to go to the pharamacy to pick up a script that is for the PLMD. I would ask the pharamist about the numbness while I was there.

Of course, this medication for the PLMD is the highest co-pay *sobs* But I even remembered to ask the pharamist about the numbness. She pulled out the map like page that comes with the medicine. After a few minutes, she told me "it reports numbness as a side effect, but it doesn't specify where."

So I'm not going to worry, it's just the medication. Maybe it'll get better as I get used to the medication.

And for some reason, my doctor that wrote me the script for the PLMD gave me a couple sample bottles of the medication in 75mg form. He told me to try one at night, and go up to two if needed. After a week, I had to go up to two pills at night. So far, that seems to be working. The script is for 150mg, so he must have known that I would need to go up to the 150mg dose. The best news is that while it's the highest co-pay, he wrote it for three times a day, but told me take it only at night with a ;-) So this bottle will last me three months.

The bad news is that this medication for the PLMD is an anti-epileptic. I swore to myself that I wouldn't go back on anti-epileptics EVER again. But I can live with only taking it at night I suppose....