Side Effects....

So, some of you may know that I get terrible headaches, daily. So bad that its unusual for me to not have a headache. With this I get dizzy spells as well as pressure in my sinuses and such. Something some of you do not know, I do not go to the um...potty...normal. Like, once a week if I am lucky. I also sweat like a man, like a man playing football in the tropics. Yes, its bad. These are things I would typically not tell even some of my closest friends, much less the Internet world.

No worries readers, I have been visiting the doctor and getting this checked out. I do have a neurologist that I have been seeing about this and she has been running some tests. All of the tests so far have come back fine, and believe it or not I have very healthy brain tissue. Ha, of course that doesn't give me much info about the potty problem though, so I plan to talk to my regular doctor on my next visit.

Well, my doctor prescribed Topomax which treats Epilepsy and Migraines. It turns out all of it is related to the constant headaches, and she is going to do more tests to find out what is causing the headaches. Until then we are trying the Topomax, which she said I am a really good candidate for because I have a headache more than I do not have a headache, and she said it is not good to be taking things like Tylenol or Advil and stuff as often as I am. So, she sent me with the prescription and I was off to the pharmacy.

Now, I am someone who has never been on any kind of medicine like this before and to be honest I was a little nervous, so I did some research. The doctor said its very safe and not addictive, but I still wanted to look for myself. So, online I found a few site with all kinds of good information. It is supposed to prevent the headaches not make them go away when you already have them, which is WONDERFUL!!! It can also cause weight loss, how sad...ha!...and if you experience any kind of eye pain or blurred vision and don't have it treated you might go blind. So, you may be thinking, hm..that sounds sketchy, well let me remind you I DO NOT POOP!

I get home, take the first little tiny pill, not really expecting to have results any time soon. The doctor told me that I probably still have headaches for a month or so and she wanted me to go about 3-4 months without any headache and she would gradually take me off of it so it would be like a 5-6 month process, so again, I was not expecting to see any results this soon. Well, I started feeling this weird feeling in my tummy, and I assume its just a coincidence. Over the next 48 hours though I was proven wrong, eight times....that's like 2 months worth for me. Its been the best 48 hours of my life.

In addition to the regular bathroom visits I have been making I also forgot to wear deodorant yesterday to work. Now, for those of you VERY close to me you know that this is a big huge no no for me. The average person can go like 2-3 hours without deodorant and then make a quick run to the bathroom and wipe the pits and be ok, not me. I can go like 20 minutes and then you do not want to be within 20 feet of me. I can wear deodorant and still by the middle of the day need to make a pit stop and reapply. So, I forgot the deodorant, and I kind of freaked out, then was running a little late for work and forgot that I forgot deodorant and didn't remember till later. So, I'm sitting at work feeling bad for Tenesha, who sits next to me, and wondering how I smell, when I remember the last thing I read on my pamphlet, decreased sweating, "It couldn't be!" I though, "I could never be THAT lucky!" That's when I did a pit check, and I got nothing, nothing but laundry detergent. All day I kept doing it, you know, the same check you see on those deodorant commercials where the girl is trying to be inconspicuous but you still notice because its a commercial, and all day I didn't smell anything. So at the end of the day I brought in the opinion of a friend, Annie, from the previous blog (now I can only guess this is a reliable source because she did read the blog and she knows it was about her so we will see) and had her check, she said I smelled lovely, and Amanda the baby sitter said I smelled like laundry detergent. Which are things no one has ever said to me before, things I have never asked someone before.

I will say there have been some negative to this medicine. For one I work in a call center and I will forget what I am saying halfway through what I am saying. The other day I forgot the word popular, and I couldn't remember it, not until I was driving to see my brother for his birthday that night. I also was having a super yummy drink the other night, peach schnapps and orange juice, a fuzzy navel as most would call it, well two sips into this super delicious drink i started getting really dizzy and my eyes started going cross eyed, so considering I have not experienced this since then I am just assuming I will not be drinking until I am off of Topomax. But that's ok, I can have koolade I guess. Also, and this could be the worse part....Juan picked me up for lunch today, we decided to go to Taco Bell, halfway there I changed my mind, and we decided on KFC, and I changed my mind again and we finally went to Burger King, but that wasn't the bad part, even though loss of appetite is a side effect that I have yet to experience. The worse part is that when I ordered my Coke, and I tasted it I was disgusted...I had Juan taste it, come to find out it was Dr. Pepper, which I love, its supper yummy, but it tasted like poooooooo....so I tasted his Coke, it also tasted like pooooo....as did the Mt. Dew we have at home....All tastes like poooooo.....

So, I have come to a conclusion with this medicine. It treats migraines and Epilepsy. One of the non label treatments (which means they can prescribe it for something because it is a very common side effect) is weight loss for people who are obese. Well, I think this medicine is a laxative, I think it changes you taste buds also so that you are not hungry and do not like soda. So this makes you poop out what little bit of food you do eat, and you no longer drink soda so you lose weight. Now because you no longer drink soda you probably over time stop getting migraines and because of the less caffeine intake you could stop having seizures. I get it. I think the reason you get dizzy is because you stop eating and poop so much that you have no nutrients in you and you almost faint. So I am on to you makers of Topomax, I get what you are doing....targeting those of us who suffer from constant weight gain, headaches, sweatyness, and you take it all away.....

But that's ok, I accept it, and I will use your means of headachelessness, forgetingwordness, non sweating, weight loss...I take it and accept it!

Annie's Love Life Blog

So, we all have people in our lives that we go to for advise. This person is usually older, more expeirinced in dating and finances ect. I have a couple of friends I go to . They are very reliable sources, or so I thought. Come to find out they are just as confused as me. I would never consider myself someone to go to for advise. I am 23, unmarried, I have a five year old, have not finished college and am in debt. But, over the past few weeks I have realized that there is someone who comes to me. Very confused by this I started to look at the situation closely. First of all, Annie we shall call her, is a year (or two) older than I, no kids, with college, her own place (sort of), her own car, her own money, no boyfriend and very pretty, smart and has a lot of potential. I dont understand it? Is this what we do? We go to our friends, who are our friends because we have thins in common with, whether its work, home, hobbies, whatever.We go to these people and ask them for advise as though they are in a position of complete happiness/success/contentment. So, lets go a little farther. Annie is single, she continues to look for "the one" so that she can continue her life on her schedule. So, she gets ll dressed up in a cute skirt with a shirt that matches her newest shoes and her new hand bag to tie it all together. Hair,check. Makeup, check. Outfit ,check. Ass...check (of course).She gathers her bestie and heads out to the club. At the club she doesn't show id because she has taken this road to true love more than once. So, she goes into the club, up to the bar and orders her first of many drinks. When she losens up some she makes her way to the dance floor. Because Annie is Annie she is approached by many guys and in her tipsy stupor she gives out a fake name to the guys she finds unattractive and her real name to the one she likes so that she knows who to remember. So "Joe" calls her the next day and after consulting with her friends about what he looked like Annie agrees to meet him for coffee later. They meet, he seems nice, Annie gets excited and they agree to call each other the next few days to set up a diner date. Now, because Annies friend just ended a six month long relationship with someone she continues to have breakup sex with she comes to me for advise. Now, I have been in a relationship for over a year now, never been married....my ex broke up with me fior a guy and my ex before that I ended because we were engaged for three years and still did not have a date. I suppose on some level I am an ok candidate because Im still with someone. I usually tell her to wait for him to call, and she usually just texts him anyways. Afterwards though she promises to wait for him to call and usually removes his number after writing it down at home on a postie note. (she says to remove the temptation). After about 4 days Annie approaches me again, excited because Joe finally called and they talked for hours. It turns out Joe is such a nice guy. He works for some major corporation, over sees hundreds of employees, lives on his own in one of the nicer neighborhoods, never been married, no kids...basically the one she thought was "the one." Over the next week they go out for diner and a movie, she hangs out with his friends, he hangs out with her friends. Annie believes everything is going wonderfully and begins to get more attatched. They have talks and he tells her he doesn't want anything serious, she tells me its getting serious. At six weeks she is ready to be fully committed and he disappears. For a week she wont hear from him, then he texts her saying he is sorry he is out of town. She gets excited again and thinks everything is ok. Then one day, while getting a movie she bumps into Joe and his pregnant wife while he is waiting for his ex wife to drop his kids off so he can take them all back home for dinner that his mom just finished cooking. It also turns out he lost his job from Burger King for being late so often and is currently unemployeed. Since she is already at Blockbuster she decides to 'bump' into hwe ex "John" and invite him over for movies and ice cream. I then recieve a text message saying "John" stood her up. At this point I am so confused because I though John was Joe and Joe worked at Blockbuster and where is Johns wife again??? Now, let me remind you, Annie is a hottie, with a college degree, living on her own, fun, nice, no kids, and this is what she asks me about....should he ask John or Joe to her brothers two weddings? So, I began thinking...is this what it always looks like? Are we, as women, sinking and settleing for less that what we deserve because Joe Blow blew us off? And, are all the guys Joe Blows underneath to some degree and we just don't realize it? After all, any guy you talk to, no matter how long you have been with them will admitt to checkin out other girls while committed to there well off girlfriends while they are at work with the guys. So, this brings me to another point. Who are our "committed" guys committed to? When they are with us its all about us, but what about when they are with the guys. They openly joke about other girls when we are there, but how far does it really go when we are not around? Is Annie not unlucky in love or is she just the one who catches the guy in the act before she gets too attatched? Is the person Annie goes to just blinded by undeserving trust in a guy who is doing the same thing, just better at not getting caught? And if he is not getting caught doing that, what else is he getting away with?

Mr. MJ

So, I have not blogged in a long time but I wanted to take some time to blog about a very big current event....MJ! So, I was never really a big Micheal Jackson fan, the biggest think I knew about him was the Thriller thing, and it totally freaked me out....considering I was like 3 the first time I saw it, and therefore was totally scared of it. So anywho, he, as you know died last week and it kind of, well shook the frikkin world. So, after this happened there were all kinds of fans jumping out of the woodwork. Five years ago there was the whole controversy over whether he should go to jail, and I wasn't there so I do not know, but I know that most of these recent fans were the same people who said he should go to jail. So that kind of makes me mad. Throug the entire ordeal I stayed neutral. I decided I was not in the room so I am not saying what happened. Also, the thing with the baby, everyone freaked out and said it was bad...but its Micheal Jackson and we knew he was messed up so why is everyone suddenly surprised. I will say that I do wonder what happened to him that made him the way he is. I mean to not like yourself enough and to want to change yourself so bad that you actually change your skin color, its really sad, and it really makes me wonder what happened.

So, anywho, to the reason for this blog. Since Mj passed there has been a new bandwagon to jump on, and I have. I went home and downloaded all kinds of Micheal Jackson music and looked up old videos, and basically found what I have been missing out on. In just one week I have become one of his biggest fans....I love all of his music, the new stuff the old stuff. I love it all. My favorite video is the one for the closet song, and no I do not know the name of it. I love Micheal Jackson and am very sad that I am just now realizing the talent he had. I wish I would have taken the time before to see what he has. So, Im pretty excited that there is this awesome music out there that I can listen to, but really sad that I missed out on all of the amazingness when he was alive.

So this blog is dedicated to my new fav. person. Micheal Jackson....