The first week

Sunday 27th November, 2011 - 2:23pm with 0 comments

I’ve taken five days of my medication and my doctor said it’s the hardest, toughest week, and after that I should be okay. If it’s currently tolerable then I think I’m doing really well. :)

The thing I can’t understand is that it makes me drowsy. Now it doesn’t make me pop off anymore, but it takes a few hours. It took two hours, so I tried it in the afternoon on the weekend when I had nothing to do, and I think that my body is getting used to it because I’m not yawning until four or so hours.

It used to make me really want to sleep but now it’s just the yawning that makes me want to lie down for a bit. Makes me a little tired. I think I should start napping, power napping – I’m always good at napping.

My sleep is still getting interrupted. Weird. I think it’s something to do with how it suppresses REM sleep. Sucks. But it really has been tolerable and I’ve managed to go back to sleep and not really complain about it. Emotionally, I’m well.

I still need to find the right time of day to take my medication… but I’m coping. I think I’m getting used to it. I’ve lost like two kilograms and looking at myself, I don’t know where it’s gone. o_O

Posted on: Sunday, November 27th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Categories: Depression
Tags: venlafaxine
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