February 26, 2003
Drugs and sleep
Hooray for sleepy pills (i.e., Desyrel). I've gotten better sleep in the past few days than I have in months. That alone has resulted in a major mood improvement, for the most part. I still can't concentrate for shit, and I'm still struggling a lot, but at least now I'm not exhausted all the time. (Golly, could that have been why I was falling asleep during the day so much? We'll see.)
The drawback is that I'd forgotten about the Zoloft adjustment period. Generally, I have side effects for the first week or so, then they go away. For right now, though, I'm dealing with a constant minor headache, dry mouth, and occasional weird bouts of drowsiness, not to mention a few minor digestive issues. It's not horrid though. Unfortunately, something I neglected to mention about my new therapist (it got lost in the body image rant) is that he wants me to see the nurse practitioner at their clinic to evaluate my medication. He says he's not sure that Zoloft is the right medication for me. Of course, that reminded me of the last time someone told me that. We'll see. It would kinda suck if I got through this adjustment period only to switch to something new and start it all over again.
This is kinda turning into a depression journal, I know, but that's the biggest thing I'm dealing with right now.
