Today Tommy has his regular EKG and bloodwork to make sure his medications aren’t damaging anything. Without meds, he never sleeps, has no impulse control and is basically in a constantly dysfunctional manic state. With meds, we might be hurting his organ functioning, he has massive weight gain problems and behavior swings as he routinely develops an immunity to his meds.
It’s a sad case of damned if you do and damned if you don’t. I take one medication that makes me gain weight but the alternative is worse. Fingers crossed that everything comes out ok.