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The body is strange & interesting...
Jul. 14th, 2010 10:46 amMy mood for the last two weeks has been doing strange things unrelated to what's actually going on in my life. I know this means it's time for my antidepressant dosage to get adjusted.
For the last week especially I've had 2 or three bad down days followed by a couple of good/happy days.
How a neurochemical imbalance in my brain can affect so many different things in my body is interesting. First & foremost there's the changes in my mood that I can't really control or bring myself out of. But then there's also the worsening heartburn, when my diet hasn't changed.
And there's the return of my insomnia. Insomnia that even when I take an ambien CR and get knocked out for a full night's sleep... I still don't wake up rested. I still wake up exhausted like I barely slept.
In two days I get to go back to my Dr to get my Cymbalta adjusted. I'm currently at the lowest possible dose, so I imagine he'll just move me up to the standard dose. Hopefully that will do the trick and I won't need to go up any higher. Right now I barely have any side effects - just a tiny little bit of occasional dizziness.
For the last week especially I've had 2 or three bad down days followed by a couple of good/happy days.
How a neurochemical imbalance in my brain can affect so many different things in my body is interesting. First & foremost there's the changes in my mood that I can't really control or bring myself out of. But then there's also the worsening heartburn, when my diet hasn't changed.
And there's the return of my insomnia. Insomnia that even when I take an ambien CR and get knocked out for a full night's sleep... I still don't wake up rested. I still wake up exhausted like I barely slept.
In two days I get to go back to my Dr to get my Cymbalta adjusted. I'm currently at the lowest possible dose, so I imagine he'll just move me up to the standard dose. Hopefully that will do the trick and I won't need to go up any higher. Right now I barely have any side effects - just a tiny little bit of occasional dizziness.
