More thinking...

So. I've been thinking that I need to start being aware of depression stuff. Like the sleeping too much. During the day. Since I doubled the dose on the 3rd, the nighttime sleeping has improved. If I wake up in the night I drop right back off. I'm going to go back to half a dose of the Trazadone now because I suspect that I was so sleepy all day yesterday because I've been taking the full 50 mg each day since Christmas. I started out with half a dose when he first gave me the scrip, and only increased it to the full dose whenever the cyclic fatigue was coming on. But because I never seemed to snap out of the fatigue, I just kept taking the full dose. Now I'm starting to wonder if that full dose is contributing to my daytime fatigue. I took half last night and slept well and do feel less dopey today. But my body is tired.

I talked to a friend about the depression some more. And how worried I am about all the daytime napping I'm doing. Depression people do that. I've been doing that. But she reminded me that I was bonking around Christmas, then at New Year's I had this gastro-intestinal virus, and then last Thursday I doubled the anti-depressant. "Remember you were pretty tired and sleeping all the time when you first started taking that medication last March," she said. "Maybe you are reacting to the higher dose."

AHA! That's a lightbulb moment! And besides, my stomach is a little queasy too. So hey...I've decided to give myself until next Friday, Jan. 18 to sleep and rest and lay around all I want. If I'm still kind of out of it, I'll call for an appt with the doc.

It's good to have a plan. And friends whose brains you can borrow.