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Just so everyone knows why I won't be around for the next few days - if I remember correctly from my previous visits, I'm not allowed to have my phone. My psychiatrist wants to make some med changes but is concerned about just how bad I've been feeling and feels like it would be a better idea to do that in an environment where they can monitor me more closely, and I agreed. I'm on the way home now to gather some stuff, and then I'm going in.

Take care D&D, we will be looking forward to your return.

(((( HUGS ))))

I'll send thoughts and prayers your way. I hope you have a restful stay and that they pamper you 24/7.

I like you, D & D. You've always been a kind presence here on WP. And everybody else likes you, too.

I wish I could provide more support for you. I hope you get your own apartment soon. You deserve it.

{{{{HUGS}}}}

Get well soon! We like your posts & hope you can come back to us in a little. I'll be praying for your recovery and that you aren't hit with a massive bill, and I'm sure all of us would like to have you back on the W.P. board.

Be well. Come back when you are able.

I hope you get better soon! I'll miss you.
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All the best D & D. Hope they get the meds sorted for you so you feel much better soon! xx

Though you're not here D&D I wish you a happy birthday! Hope for you to get better soon!

Thank you for all the hugs and kind words, everyone I just got out of the hospital today. Yesterday and today I have still been having some thoughts of wishing I was dead, but did not feel at all like I would act on any suicidal ideation (my requirement for feeling like I was safe for discharge), and my psychiatrist thought I looked like I was doing a lot better and determined that nothing would be accomplished by keeping me for the weekend, so they let me go. While I was there, in addition to adjusting my psych meds (added Prozac, increased lithium and Buspar, which, combined with my other meds, makes a grand total of 11 pills I have to swallow every morning Plus one midday and slightly fewer (but I haven't counted how many) at bedtime. They decreased the Effexor I was on, though, so that makes one less pill than I otherwise would have, since I used to be taking 2 and now am taking 1) they discovered that my iron was very low (they said the bottom of the "low" range is 37 and mine was 14), which is probably why I've been so tired all the time and dizzy sometimes. Hopefully now that I am feeling physically better and they've adjusted my meds, I'm on the way to be feeling better mentally.

YOU'RE BACK!

Glad to hear you are feeling better! Hope the new meds turn out all right for you; that bit with low iron is nothing to fool with.