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miss_lucy21I forgot how stupid Neurotin makes me. It doesn't really make me any groggier than any of my other meds. It just makes it really hard to put things together and think clearly. And that is not a good combination with my natural tendency towards chaos. It took like, 5 times as long to do everything this week. I made more typing errors this week than I have at pretty much any point since I became proficient at touch typing (which was a very long time ago). I kept putting my passwords in wrong. And I got lost driving home from work on Thursday.
[Okay, the getting lost thing isn't as bad as it sounds. I was trying to take a back way home because it was raining and people in this town are lousy drivers in the rain, even though it rains a lot in this town. Only thing was I went the wrong way around a roundabout and wound up going the wrong way. And then I tried to logic my way out of it, which worked to a certain extent, except once I got out of going the wrong way, I then made another wrong turn and wound up going the wrong way again at a different part of the route and then I got lost in a residential neighborhood during trick-or-treat. I find my way back to a main road, and misjudged where I was along that road, and turned the wrong away yet again and wound up back at the roundabout that started the whole mess. At which point, I got faced the correct direction, managed to not make a wrong turn, and finally got on the correct route home. Took me about a half hour longer than it usually does to get home. And now that I've written the whole thing out, maybe it was as bad as it sounds. But it was raining and the visibility wasn't super which was the cause of at least one of the wrong turns. And that roundabout is new, like, finished in the last 6 weeks new.]
However, I keep reminding myself that pain is at least as distracting as the meds, so it's really six of one and half dozen of the other. But anytime my sciatic nerve wants to get with the program, that would be good.
[Okay, the getting lost thing isn't as bad as it sounds. I was trying to take a back way home because it was raining and people in this town are lousy drivers in the rain, even though it rains a lot in this town. Only thing was I went the wrong way around a roundabout and wound up going the wrong way. And then I tried to logic my way out of it, which worked to a certain extent, except once I got out of going the wrong way, I then made another wrong turn and wound up going the wrong way again at a different part of the route and then I got lost in a residential neighborhood during trick-or-treat. I find my way back to a main road, and misjudged where I was along that road, and turned the wrong away yet again and wound up back at the roundabout that started the whole mess. At which point, I got faced the correct direction, managed to not make a wrong turn, and finally got on the correct route home. Took me about a half hour longer than it usually does to get home. And now that I've written the whole thing out, maybe it was as bad as it sounds. But it was raining and the visibility wasn't super which was the cause of at least one of the wrong turns. And that roundabout is new, like, finished in the last 6 weeks new.]
However, I keep reminding myself that pain is at least as distracting as the meds, so it's really six of one and half dozen of the other. But anytime my sciatic nerve wants to get with the program, that would be good.