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Jun. 23rd, 2015 05:17 pmI started taking anti-anxiety medication about week ago, after deciding I'd rather not be hypochondriac all the time. Things have been going well really, but I think I may have discovered a side effect. I was having some abdomen sort of pains also a few weeks ago - it was one of the things I was worrying about - and pretty much the day I got the pills I remembered sometimes that happened when I wasn't drinking enough water. So I tried drinking more, and felt better. But then I seemed to be thirsty all the time. Every time I went to the tap I'd just down a glass of water straight off and then take another with me wherever else I was going in the house. My throat was dry all the time, and for a while I was worried I might have diabetes (ha ha ha). Then my mum pointed out 'dry mouth' was probably one of the side effects of the pills.
Here's the thing - it's pretty bad. I've been sleeping pretty badly for the last week, just never managing to get more than a few hours before I wake up again, and pretty much every time I do I have a dry, scratchy throat. When I bother to get up and get a drink, I tend to fall asleep again pretty soon afterwards. I can't actually tell if it's waking me up - it's not painful exactly, so it's a little hard to believe it would bother me that much. But the dry mouth and the bad sleeping have sort of come hand in hand, so that's pretty difficult to ignore. Which is a shame, because otherwise I think the medication's really working out for me, but if it's messing up my sleep I don't know if it's much of a goer. I still sleep a bit, and I'm not exhausted all the time or anything, but it's not very pleasant and it makes going to bed a bit stressful. So hmm.
Could be something else of course. The mornings are starting pretty early these days and my curtains are still paper-thin. I'm trying to get blackout blinds, but I had a bit of a "we have some!"/"no we don't" rigmarole with my mum. Also I wrote a fic that might have accidentally turned out to be a WIP - the prompt was a scenario, which I wrote, and then the aftermath, which I didn't get around to (although the plotbunnies for it were numerous). That might be playing on my mind a little bit. I don't know. I'm probably going to discuss it with the doctor when I see him again next week. It's annoying that some of the side-effects of anti-anxiety medications seem to be 'increased anxiety'.
In other news, I bought a Wii U this week. It's very shiny. The only problem with it is that it runs off an HDMI cable, like my PS4, and my TV only has one input for it. So every time I want to switch between them I have to mess about with the back of the TV, trying not to put the plug in the wrong way round or knock the TV out of position, because that makes my eyes go funny when I try to play games on it afterwards. Also I rescued two baby birds today. At least I hope I rescued them, and didn't just make things worse. They seemed to have hopped the wall of a local church into a road, where they were huddled by a wall. I had to gather them up and drop them back over the side. THEY WERE HELLA SWEET THOUGH.
Here's the thing - it's pretty bad. I've been sleeping pretty badly for the last week, just never managing to get more than a few hours before I wake up again, and pretty much every time I do I have a dry, scratchy throat. When I bother to get up and get a drink, I tend to fall asleep again pretty soon afterwards. I can't actually tell if it's waking me up - it's not painful exactly, so it's a little hard to believe it would bother me that much. But the dry mouth and the bad sleeping have sort of come hand in hand, so that's pretty difficult to ignore. Which is a shame, because otherwise I think the medication's really working out for me, but if it's messing up my sleep I don't know if it's much of a goer. I still sleep a bit, and I'm not exhausted all the time or anything, but it's not very pleasant and it makes going to bed a bit stressful. So hmm.
Could be something else of course. The mornings are starting pretty early these days and my curtains are still paper-thin. I'm trying to get blackout blinds, but I had a bit of a "we have some!"/"no we don't" rigmarole with my mum. Also I wrote a fic that might have accidentally turned out to be a WIP - the prompt was a scenario, which I wrote, and then the aftermath, which I didn't get around to (although the plotbunnies for it were numerous). That might be playing on my mind a little bit. I don't know. I'm probably going to discuss it with the doctor when I see him again next week. It's annoying that some of the side-effects of anti-anxiety medications seem to be 'increased anxiety'.
In other news, I bought a Wii U this week. It's very shiny. The only problem with it is that it runs off an HDMI cable, like my PS4, and my TV only has one input for it. So every time I want to switch between them I have to mess about with the back of the TV, trying not to put the plug in the wrong way round or knock the TV out of position, because that makes my eyes go funny when I try to play games on it afterwards. Also I rescued two baby birds today. At least I hope I rescued them, and didn't just make things worse. They seemed to have hopped the wall of a local church into a road, where they were huddled by a wall. I had to gather them up and drop them back over the side. THEY WERE HELLA SWEET THOUGH.
