day three: side effects

Yep, Day Three of 40mgs Lexapro.  I’ve noticed a number of things:

• Weird sleeping patterns.  Like, sleeping until 3am, then staying awake until 7am.  Then needing a significant nap in the afternoon (like, four hours’ worth).  My sleep has been broken for the last couple of years, but this is ridiculous.  And I’m still sleeping about 14 hours a day.
• A general feeling of amiable disinterest in life, together with…
• ….the continuing inability to actually get stuff done.  I’m hoping that this is a result of being tired.
• A bit of a twitchy feeling.  Not a tic or anything, just every so often I feel like I’ve twitched, even when I haven’t actually moved.  Not sure if this is a mental thing or a mental/physical thing.
• Poor concentration.
• Poor recall.
• Diahorrhea (sorry!).
• A general feeling of being fuzzy and slightly ‘off’.
• Poor motivation.
• A funny feeling in my stomach, kind of like apprehension.  If I concentrate and deliberately relax, it goes, but it comes back as soon as I think of other things.

However, I have noticed good things as well.  I’m not crying.  My gross motor skills have improved out of sight (when badly depressed, I bump into everything possible).  I’m able to see the funny side of things.  At this stage, I’m hoping the not so good stuff moderates, and I continue to keep feeling more normal (ie. non-depressed).

In other news, we signed up our new tenants tonight.  They move in tomorrow.  Coincidentally, after they left, we thought to try the new (second hand) washing machine.  Guess what isn’t working?  Oh well, we’ll sort something out.