ChessieCat Posted Wednesday at 08:51 PM (edited) Heat packs, massage, stretches, strengthening. Perhaps you might be able to get a softer keyboard to use which doesn't jar as much. Edited Wednesday at 08:52 PM by ChessieCat 0 NEW!!! INTERVIEW with Altostrata, SA's founder NEW!!! ADs: 25 years - 1 unknown, Prozac (muscle weakness), Zoloft; citalopram (pooped out) CTed (very sick for 2.5 wks a few months after) Pristiq: 50mg 2012, 100mg beg 2013 (Serotonin Toxicity) Tapering Oct 2015 Current from 14 Nov 2020: Pristiq 0.50 mg My tapering program My Intro (goes to my tapering graph) My website - includes my brief history + links to videos & information on the web PLEASE NOTE: I am not a medical professional. I provide information and make suggestions. REMINDER TO SELF: I don't need the drug now, but my still brain does. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hayduke Posted yesterday at 02:24 AM Thanks ChessieCat. I've already got a couple of really good ergo keyboards, Kinesis Advantage 2 and one from https://x-bows.com/ . They are great, if only laptops were easily converted this way Also fitted these https://medium.com/swlh/should-you-apply-o-rings-to-your-mechanical-keyboard-d0e0319aa6bf 0 *** I am not a health professional - your actions are your own *** My taper visualised as a graph | My intro thread 10mg olanzapine 2003-06. 3mg risperidone 2006-2014 gave slight weight loss but mediocre sleep. Abrupt x-taper to try aripiprazole Dec 2014 increasingly restless (Freddy the blind man could've seen that coming, shame about the pdoc) then back onto 10mg olanzapine after 3 weeks. Round 1: 2015 10 -> 7 1/2 -> 6 2/3 -> 5mg olanzapine. Hadn't researched, just decided to try it myself with pill cutter. Easy enough. Next cut to 3 1/3mg for 2 weeks had me struggling to function. Reverted to 5mg, thought that was as far as I could go. Round 2: Given Breggin to read, found SA. Taper from 5 to 2.5mg over five months. Titrate liquid suspension using Rhi's method. Cuts and holds all done by feel. All samples at start of month in mg: 2018: Feb 5.0 | Mar 4.5 | Apr 4.25 | May 3.7 | Jun 3.3 | Jul 3.1 | Aug 2.9 | Sep 2.5 and six month hold Round 3: 2.5mg and below. EMDR work unearthed and resolved root trauma at around 2.1mg 2019: Jan 2.5 | Feb 2.3 | Mar 2.215 / EMDR / Apr 1.976 | May 1.875 | Jun 1.825 | Jul 1.625 | Aug 1.525 | Sep 1.46 | Oct 1.3 | Nov 1.225 | Dec 1.25 2020: Jan 1.214 | Feb 1.1 | Mar 1.0 🙂 | Apr 0.88 | May 0.82 | June 0.74 | July 0.69 | Aug 0.61 | Sep 0.59 | Oct 0.525 | Nov 0.5 ‘If you think you’re enlightened, spend a week with your family.’ -- Ram Dass Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChessieCat Posted yesterday at 03:23 AM You can plug in keyboards via USB into the laptop. 0 NEW!!! INTERVIEW with Altostrata, SA's founder NEW!!! ADs: 25 years - 1 unknown, Prozac (muscle weakness), Zoloft; citalopram (pooped out) CTed (very sick for 2.5 wks a few months after) Pristiq: 50mg 2012, 100mg beg 2013 (Serotonin Toxicity) Tapering Oct 2015 Current from 14 Nov 2020: Pristiq 0.50 mg My tapering program My Intro (goes to my tapering graph) My website - includes my brief history + links to videos & information on the web PLEASE NOTE: I am not a medical professional. I provide information and make suggestions. REMINDER TO SELF: I don't need the drug now, but my still brain does. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChessieCat Posted yesterday at 03:25 AM I would have thought that the o-rings would mean that you have more resistance and would have to press down harder. 0 NEW!!! INTERVIEW with Altostrata, SA's founder NEW!!! ADs: 25 years - 1 unknown, Prozac (muscle weakness), Zoloft; citalopram (pooped out) CTed (very sick for 2.5 wks a few months after) Pristiq: 50mg 2012, 100mg beg 2013 (Serotonin Toxicity) Tapering Oct 2015 Current from 14 Nov 2020: Pristiq 0.50 mg My tapering program My Intro (goes to my tapering graph) My website - includes my brief history + links to videos & information on the web PLEASE NOTE: I am not a medical professional. I provide information and make suggestions. REMINDER TO SELF: I don't need the drug now, but my still brain does. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hayduke Posted yesterday at 04:49 AM 1 hour ago, ChessieCat said: You can plug in keyboards via USB into the laptop. 1 hour ago, ChessieCat said: I would have thought that the o-rings would mean that you have more resistance and would have to press down harder. Sure, if you're at a desk already. I'd usually just get on the workstation then. The O rings don't affect anything till the key is near the bottom of its travel. They just round out the impact if you do bottom the key out. 0 *** I am not a health professional - your actions are your own *** My taper visualised as a graph | My intro thread 10mg olanzapine 2003-06. 3mg risperidone 2006-2014 gave slight weight loss but mediocre sleep. Abrupt x-taper to try aripiprazole Dec 2014 increasingly restless (Freddy the blind man could've seen that coming, shame about the pdoc) then back onto 10mg olanzapine after 3 weeks. Round 1: 2015 10 -> 7 1/2 -> 6 2/3 -> 5mg olanzapine. Hadn't researched, just decided to try it myself with pill cutter. Easy enough. Next cut to 3 1/3mg for 2 weeks had me struggling to function. Reverted to 5mg, thought that was as far as I could go. Round 2: Given Breggin to read, found SA. Taper from 5 to 2.5mg over five months. Titrate liquid suspension using Rhi's method. Cuts and holds all done by feel. All samples at start of month in mg: 2018: Feb 5.0 | Mar 4.5 | Apr 4.25 | May 3.7 | Jun 3.3 | Jul 3.1 | Aug 2.9 | Sep 2.5 and six month hold Round 3: 2.5mg and below. EMDR work unearthed and resolved root trauma at around 2.1mg 2019: Jan 2.5 | Feb 2.3 | Mar 2.215 / EMDR / Apr 1.976 | May 1.875 | Jun 1.825 | Jul 1.625 | Aug 1.525 | Sep 1.46 | Oct 1.3 | Nov 1.225 | Dec 1.25 2020: Jan 1.214 | Feb 1.1 | Mar 1.0 🙂 | Apr 0.88 | May 0.82 | June 0.74 | July 0.69 | Aug 0.61 | Sep 0.59 | Oct 0.525 | Nov 0.5 ‘If you think you’re enlightened, spend a week with your family.’ -- Ram Dass Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hayduke Posted 21 hours ago Someone mentioned histamines earlier in the thread. I tried a nasal spray for hay fever (antihistamine) which seemed to reduce the discomfort a bit. Also noticing a correlation between the discomfort and humid grey wet weather. 0 *** I am not a health professional - your actions are your own *** My taper visualised as a graph | My intro thread 10mg olanzapine 2003-06. 3mg risperidone 2006-2014 gave slight weight loss but mediocre sleep. Abrupt x-taper to try aripiprazole Dec 2014 increasingly restless (Freddy the blind man could've seen that coming, shame about the pdoc) then back onto 10mg olanzapine after 3 weeks. Round 1: 2015 10 -> 7 1/2 -> 6 2/3 -> 5mg olanzapine. Hadn't researched, just decided to try it myself with pill cutter. Easy enough. Next cut to 3 1/3mg for 2 weeks had me struggling to function. Reverted to 5mg, thought that was as far as I could go. Round 2: Given Breggin to read, found SA. Taper from 5 to 2.5mg over five months. Titrate liquid suspension using Rhi's method. Cuts and holds all done by feel. All samples at start of month in mg: 2018: Feb 5.0 | Mar 4.5 | Apr 4.25 | May 3.7 | Jun 3.3 | Jul 3.1 | Aug 2.9 | Sep 2.5 and six month hold Round 3: 2.5mg and below. EMDR work unearthed and resolved root trauma at around 2.1mg 2019: Jan 2.5 | Feb 2.3 | Mar 2.215 / EMDR / Apr 1.976 | May 1.875 | Jun 1.825 | Jul 1.625 | Aug 1.525 | Sep 1.46 | Oct 1.3 | Nov 1.225 | Dec 1.25 2020: Jan 1.214 | Feb 1.1 | Mar 1.0 🙂 | Apr 0.88 | May 0.82 | June 0.74 | July 0.69 | Aug 0.61 | Sep 0.59 | Oct 0.525 | Nov 0.5 ‘If you think you’re enlightened, spend a week with your family.’ -- Ram Dass Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
