 Hi guys, I'm here to put this on. So today I decided that I want to kind of talk through how I organise my medication. I thought I'd do this video because at the moment we are in a... Well, we all know what's going on in the world. It's a very real thing and I know a lot of us. We are absolutely terrified. An actual hairband that makes people like he's unicorn. So, quick get ready, me-ish. I'm getting ready to meet up with... Meet up with Bekahs driving over here. So don't worry, we're not breaking any social distancing rules. I'm gonna get heavy for that. But anyway, I'm not here to talk about that. Today I want to talk about my medication. This is just a quick little talk about why I started medication in the first place. So I started medication when I was under the children mental health team, which is called CAM, Ultimate Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. I was started on antidepressants first. And the first medication I tried was fluoroxetium, which I did not respond well to. And that also sent me into my first aeromanics. Bicol. Bicol? It sent me into my first manic cycle. I will never forget that. When it comes to medication, I am very pro-medication, which a lot of people know. And a lot of people don't like them, actually. I'm constantly getting told, oh, you shouldn't be promoting meds before you promote therapy. If I had had a positive experience with therapy, I'd share it. So, um, I don't share it because I don't want to put negative shit out there. They literally ever said publicly that I don't think therapy's good. I just haven't shared any of my experiences because I don't have any good experiences with therapy. So before people come at me for saying that I'm anti-therapy, I'm not. I'm not anti-therapeut. I'm very pro-therapy, and I think before medications are considered, in most cases you should always consider therapy first. What people don't know about my life is I have had therapists and counsellors since I was very young. And when social services were involved in my life when I was growing up. So for me to say that I have never had a good experience, probably valid because I have, I've moved around the country as well. So I have tried different services, different things in different cases. So for me, medication has been the lifesaver, which is why I do talk about medication in a very positive way. Because for me, it's been a very positive experience mostly, and it has helped me enormously in my recovery. Like I would not be where I'm at now without Medicaid. I take an antidepressant, I take benzos, and I take sleeping tablets. I also take puttypine, which is an antipsychotic for my mental health. Sticking to the mental health here, I take Vendor vaccine twice a day. I take puttypine twice a day. I take lanazepam three times a day. I take Zopi-Cologne at night. My medication isn't that long the list anymore. Then I have my physical health meds, which are bisoprol, folic acid, sebumol, somatriptin, tramadol, and gabapentin. I take a lot more into my physical health because I have arthritis. If you didn't know, I've been diagnosed with arthritis since I was 17. Quite a lot of time. I'm 22 now. So I'm going to have a couple of minute meds because I'm beccasally over. So we have 25 milligrams of puttypine, which is my daytime dose. Then I have 150 at night, which I'll record later. I'm from the late part of it. So I was part of the 25 milligrams in the morning to try and help when I first wake up because it is very rare for me to go at night where I don't have something that's related to my trauma go on. And obviously it's triggering for me and it's hard to deal with in the morning. So I hate my meds in a way that I know works. So I have 25 of puttypine in the morning just to kind of slow my thoughts down quick enough. I take 75 milligrams of vanilla flaxseed, which is my antidepressant. I've been on the same antidepressant now for three years now. I was briefly on transadone as a secondary antidepressant, but because I'm out of meds, I'm at an increased risk for serotonin syndrome. So I had to stop the one. I stopped transadone because I'm already on a lot of sedating medication and that means things worse. So vanilla flaxseed has been really helpful for me. I take 150 and 75 milligrams. So I take the 75 in the morning and I also take 0.5 of clonazepam three times a day. So I take it morning, evening, and night. That's just what I'm prescribed. Obviously you can go on high doses. I don't need that. It works out what it's on. It's not PR or anything like that. It is just one to be taken three times a day. It's not pure. It is just take as it is. I also have to take the Sopralone. Good old, good old beta blocker. I take the beta blocker for my heart rate. And my migraine isn't too bad today and I've already had my pain meds. So the meds that I take in the morning, in the evening I take what I've been again from the vaccine and I usually have summer trips in because my migraines get worse. When I fit like during the night, I will wake up in pain if I don't have it. I also tend to take my tramadol at night as well because it makes me really sleepy. I have my medication and it is 8 p.m. early. I know, I'm tired. And I've literally had a migraine all day. And this is probably a medication video where I'm talking about my medication. But now I take 150 of Cretivine, 0.5 of Clemesopam, 7.5 Zoffy Clover, and 150 miligran come and then the vaccine. Oh, sorry about that. That's what I like it. Oh yeah, and I take them at the Zine at the moment as well. Like it's, so if you don't care, give it a minute. It's prescribed. I take them with vaccine. But it is, you know, I just add them into the present. That's the wrong one. It's brutal. Like you can't skip a dose of it. It's too intense to make a skip a dose. My Cretivine is 150 miligran. I've been prescribed that for over a year now. I'm on a standard release, Cretivine, and extended release than the vaccine. And then all my commands are standard release. The only one that's extended is my Cretivine, is my then the vaccine. I then have Clemesopam, which is 0.5 milligrams. Then we just cover up my name. As you can see, I'll let you find out. If it doesn't show, I'll actually look to find out. I take one of these three times a day is enough for me. Like I don't want to increase it. I've got no intention on increasing it yet. Yeah, I've been prescribed that for a while. And then Zopi Clarin is 7.5. So my pharmacy gave me extra because of the coronavirus. So my GP surgery sent over extra meds, like an extra prescription. Is that all of them out of there? So I'll look to other boxes after that. Basically, what I normally do is I normally keep these because I've got the gluten-free gummy bears. We have a girlfriend. We have fairy lights. I better look awful from that angle. Life is great. It is great. We love each other. We've got the gluten-free gummy bears, everybody. They don't know why I'm filming this. Bloody hell. Shut off your tips. Usually, I have my eyes, because I have my meds. Whoa. I'm really not weird, but... Shhh. I didn't really have my meds. I didn't reach white boxes. Don't want to annoy me that the hell out of me. So I do keep old boxes. Talking about medications, storage ideas, and little tricks and tips that I've got for the current situation in the world. Medications are in short supply. So over the last few years, I've come up with a few different ways of storing my medication. I've made very good videos about my medication. I talked about different ways that I've stored medication. I've asked you guys for advice on how you store it. Some of you said lunch boxes. I'm on too many to be doing lunch boxes. Like, in short. This is my med box. It has got my over-the-counter stuff in as well. I just want to put it out here now. Some people say, oh, you shouldn't take this because of this. I'm just like, I wouldn't take it if I thought it was unbent official. The medication I take, I take for a reason. Also, you're going to see that I've got quite a lot of white boxes in here. That is because now I'm on weekly prescriptions. Don't explain another thing in this video. So, my prescribed dose, the Pronalzapan, is 21 tablets a week. It says, once we've taken three times a day, they're just 0.5 milligrams. And I've got three boxes of this at the moment. Because, honestly, I forget to take my meds quite a lot. I don't really know what's been going on with that. Like, before my last admission, I was really good at taking my meds. But I just keep forgetting to take them. I don't know, I keep forgetting. But how I have this set up in my box is I have my antidepressant over once I did. Over the counter stuff back there, physical health stuff. So, day thingy kind of meds, like night meds, antidepressant, pro-methazine, migraine medication. And then I've got, like, a few spares, which I keep in here. It's an old plaster thing. I just put a label on. And I just keep, like, my spare med case. Like, the, like, when I have, like, a few left out of box, I'll just throw them in here. 25 milligrams, but tie up here. Two lots of that. Three lorazepan tablets. And for the recoil, lorazepan tablets. Honestly, I don't have them there for any other reason. They're just there because I don't know what else lorazepan. And I don't like having, like, these everywhere. This is just a promethazine. I don't have a box for it, really. I've got box, but it's, like, one of the thinner ones. So, I can't. And so, if we store that. Hello. Welcome back. Today, I'm doing, going to be showing you how I store my medication. One thing that I do want to say, like, I want to show you some previous methods I've used for. So, I did use this. This is the last thing that I used before I used it. It's just a bathroom caddy. I did also used to use a tub with dividers in, which I now use for scrapbooking. I also used to use a metal tray thing. My good old trusty green box. So, under the downlight, let me turn my light on. Not in my face. So, yeah, that's my medication box. So, in the back corner over there, my over the counter stuff here is my antidepressant. Then three boxes there are my physical health meds. The other is my migraine medication. Antipsychotic. My other antipsychotic box is on my bed at the moment. Promethazine. Benzo-corner. Sleeping tablets. Bisoprolol. Inhalers. And at the back there, my folic acid. So, that's kind of the little, where I store things. This little black tin right here is what I use to store spare medication. So, if you guys have got any questions about my medication or things I do or things that I've shown in the video, feel free to ask. Just to quickly say, the medication I take now, it's taken me a very long time to get the point that I'm at now where I am comfortable with what I'm taking and for the most part I think it helps. I'm actually going to see my GP today, which is the day of my illness, about my medication. Well, that's whatever you think. I'm seeing a psychiatrist in May. And that's about it. Thank you for watching. If you are new, make sure you hit the subscribe button, as always, because it would mean a lot. And I'll see you guys soon with another video.