Teh Suckz Thread

[knittnkitten]

mold or fungus? fungal masses were one of the things we were worried about with my mom's lungs.

and speaking of my mom, she's well enough to start being a complete pain to be around. I spend too much time, knitting, I don't move enough, the dining room table still has wine on it, I filled her glass too much, I heated lunch too hot, I didn't cut it into small enough pieces, ARG.

[DollyKim]

Why did I want my package YESTERDAY when I could have waited for TUESDAY because UPS can't read addresses? Not that I had projects to do on a bit of a schedule...

Even after calling them they were going to send me a post card an/or send my order back to a company that already takes long enough to send out. Not that the truck drove right by the house yesterday!

[Lamia of the Dark]

Have to get up super early to leave for family trip... not really looking forward to seeing some of the relatives...

[victoriavictrix]

To cap off a completely sucky month, NCSOFT canceled Paragon Studios/City of Heroes Friday. They came in right after the devs had posted some pics of new armor on Facebook, announced that everyone was laid off and sent everyone out and locked the offices. Then they announced that the servers would be shut down Nov 30. City of Heroes was making money, a nice if modest profit. But NCSOFT lost a bundle on Guild Wars,Corpo so they shut down Paragon to manipulate their books and taxes.

I will never buy, use, or have anything to do with an NCSOFT product again.

80 people without a job.

And for me, the place where I have a lot of folks I consider RL friends, as do many many CoH players.

Corporate greed is sucking all the joy out of the world.

[Kirahfaye]

And here my husband and I (and a group of international online friends) just started playing um ..... GW2 .....

Suits often don't understand how the social aspect of MMOs work in the lives of there customers beyond the log-off button. Sometimes I wonder if they understand MMOs at all. MMOs are "products" to corporate big-wigs, however they aren't as simple as a certain shade of lipstick or favorite flavor of snack that gets discontinued. Friendships are forged (heck as with my husband and I, relationships are made) that run as deep as close neighbors and friends. We ran into a similar, yet different, issue with SW Galaxies. In an attempt to cater to the smaller, but more vocal barely-a-teenager group, Sony Online destroyed what was the most innovative MMO ever created and made it into a laughing stock (and got rid of a lot of great developers in the process, also).

I'm so sorry about COH, Misty. And I'm sorry that NCSoft has done to you what SO did to me - made you determined to never play one of their games. Partly because I was going to ask you guys if you wanted to give GW2 a try .... However, I don't blame you for your sentiment at all.

[Sixoclock]

So... Started seeing a new psychiatrist on Thursday... Long story short she wanted me to try taking 20mg of CELEXA. Now, I know this is part of the prozac family - which I had not so nice reactions to before. So I gave it a try. Yesterday was my second day and I was mentally and emotionally numb. I could not think, it felt like my body was humming... And when I say numb... I mean, I could look at my adorable baby girl and feel NOTHING. I cannot even explain how alarming that is. So I called the DR and left a message. I know all drugs have a "ramp-up" period but.. This one is insane. Basically the DR called back and said if I wanted to stop I could, if I wanted to stop until I see her next I could, if I wanted to stop just for the weekend (since it's my older brother's bday and I will be around family) I could -- but that she thought the side effects would pass in about 1-2 weeks.... OKay, I understand soemtimes benefits outway the bad... but I cannot feel that way for 2 possibly weeks. I'll give it 4 days. I'm al;so going to try and take it at night as opposed to the morning, being as I am nice and coherent right now. If I get the same effect, I can't do this anymore. I couldn't have a decent conversation without feeling brain dead nor could I draw or paint or anything artistic. About the only thing I could do was try to pick out clothes for my dolls and that was a struggle. I was in such a panic yesterday that I am almost thinking maybe I just want to go off all meds all together for a while (I'm also on wellbutrin SR) and just let my body/mind get back to it's normal levels before anything was taken and see where I go from there. ... Blah..

[DollyKim]

If you aren't a danger to yourself or others talk to your doctor about weaning off and being "clean" for awhile. I won't take anything in a family I have reactions to, I have the scar from the first one. Once I was off my anti seizure stuff I felt better than I had in years, had more energy, and dropped weight.

[Sixoclock]

Also, let me just note again that this was only after 2 days. Placebo effects my butt. I don't think there would be terribly much weening to do since the days are so few, but I'll ask. That's if I decide to go back. I am not a danger to myself or others, as I love my little honeybear (daughter) way too much. The wellbutrin isn't bad, I have no side effects except an increased energy level, which is good.... But, I think I am just feeling like I am done with chemicals for now. I'll give it 2 more days (taking it at night) but that's it and even that will change if the following day offers the same side effects.

[DollyKim]

I understand an immediate effect, that happened to me, and I agree it doesn't sound like there's much to wean off. The big thing a sudden change could affect is your liver but if you're generally healthy you should be okay.

[knittnkitten]

yeah, you might want to talk to them about going off of it. the last time I tried to take welbutrin, I became hypomanic and I didn't even realize it till I forgot to take it for a couple days and realized I wasn't sobbing all the time.