Questions of the Day

[psluke]

Decided since this train of thought is still on the AD's to post to this thread rather than my other one. Besides there is lots more space left on this one!!

Background here is I always take my AD around 8:00 in the morning, the sleepiness doesn't hit till around 9:00 at night. After chatting with Zoo yesterday on IM it came to me that for some reason, a lot of the over the counter medications that I take, Midol immediately comes to mind, I tend to get sleepy just about the time it says you can take another one. So it seems as the medication is leaving my system is the time I get sleepy. So this morning I decided to try taking my AD an hour later to see if it changes the sleepiness cycle.

What Zoo was reading yesterday about Zoloft being out of the system after 26 hours on a 50 mg dosage, I am only on 25 mg, if that is going out in 13 hours say that makes the sleepiness hitting at just about the time the medication is leaving the system. No idea why I do this, but I have noticed it in the past on other medications. Not sure if that is what is happening here or not so experimenting.

Something else I noticed this morning. I got up a little late, laid in bed till 6:00, but felt pretty just level, not up over anything but not down. Played online for awhile, ended up reading something that sort of brought me down. I know I am bad about this problem. So I know I hadn't posted this but it is our training clubs dog show this weekend. I would normally be there and so would David. I love fall and the club's fall show is always really neat. Not as nice as it used to be, but always nicely decorated for fall and just that snap to the air when you go out to walk dogs and stuff. I do not feel at this time I am up to going yet, have no idea if David is going this weekend or not. But the last club show I went to, in the spring is when I was informed by J of my upcoming D papers in a very public way. Not anxious for a repeat performance of any kind!

So I stress thinking of show and not going and then thinking of David possibly going without me. End up calling David, meant to ask him about picking up dog food in Louisville at vets office as one of the dogs is totally out of prescription diet. I forgot to ask about dog food. He was asleep. It was only a little after 7:00, but I knew he planned to crash early last night so figured he was awake and maybe even on his way to work.

Needless to say it wasn't a great conversation, he was mostly asleep and I was stressed. Usually talking to him will pick me up but it did not this morning. So when I got off the phone started getting really down. Thought about taking my medication but wanted to wait.

So I played some cards drank some more coffee and looked how beautiful it is looking outside my front window. My desk is right in front of the large picture window in what is the living room, but we made it into our office. Picked my mood up!!!!!!!! I am so pleased that I did this on my own. Not David, and not the medication.

But this leads me to wondering again about the dosage I am on. If I had taken the pill I would have given it the credit for the pick up, but I hadn't. Is what I am on really helping me, or is it like when people are in tests and they give them a placebo and you believe you are getting something so you get better without whatever it is you think you are getting? I hope I am making some sense this morning to someone!

Still not sleeping too well and wondering if I need to cut back on the caffeine to let me sleep through the night better.

Ok, now I am really just rambling so better shut up and post this so I get it done sometime today!