Friday, January 03, 2003
Yawn
So I'm not sleeping well the past few days... I'm drop dead tired, so I go to lay down and either can't fall asleep or I get a case of the twitches. (I think it's a side effect of the EffexorXR. The involuntary muscle spasms that your body does when falling asleep end up "cascading" into a full body twitch. Which, of course, tends to wake me back up instead of letting me fall asleep.) I may have to change rooms, or change up something else, because at night I'm either too hot or I'm too cold (and I tend to get the twitches more often when a part of me is cold). It's very hard to find the happy medium at the moment, especially when I'm already not sleeping well.
So this is the beginning (middle?) of the expected downswing after almost 3 weeks of spinning like a top, demolishing things on my task list that have been there forever. I need to call my doctor and see if he can call in a refill for my Ambien (10mg) prescription so I can sleep at night during these downswings. (sigh) And just earlier this week I was considering asking him to start lowering my EffexorXR dosage to start the process of weaning off (I have a doctor appt at the end of January). Now I'm not so sure that I'm ready to go off the meds yet. I know I'm much better then I was back in May, but where I would score myself in the high 90s last week (out of 100), the past few days I feel more like 60s. Hopefully this downswing only lasts a week or two.
Downside of the Ambien is that I'm a slug for 8-10 hours after taking it (which means I have to take it around 9pm or 10pm if I want to be semi-lucid by 8am the next day).
posted by Wuphon's at 9:19 AM
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