Last night was my first night trying a new medication. After meeting with my psychiatrist we decided before we diagnose any potential further issues we'd tackle my current issues one by one. My mum believes a lot of my issues revolve around the not sleeping then not eating factor. I agree. When my doctor saw what medication I was taking at night to help me get to sleep she was somewhat shocked. I was on an older medication that's usually prescribed for children. I've been on the same sleep medication since grade 7 and I'm now coming up to two years out of high school. Which means I've been on that medication for 8 years. She suggested I get a prescription for a medication called Seroquel. In high dosages (600 mg) it's used to treat severe mental illnesses such as Bi-Polarism. In lower doses (150-400 mg roughly) it's used as an anti-anxiety and anti-depressant. In smaller doses it causes drowsiness. That's what I got, I'm on 25 mg a night and if I find I need more I can go up to 100 mg. I took the medication at 9:20. I normally take my sleeping tablets at 9:30 so I was sticking to that routine. I was still awake at midnight but feeling drowsy. I normally fall asleep around 1-3 am, Last night I turned my laptop off at 12:30 and fell asleep before 1 in the morning. Tonight I'm going to try turning it off sooner, and reading a book to conquer my boredom that ensures once my computer is off. I sleep all through the night and woke up at almost 7:30 am. For the last few mornings (for about three weeks?) I've been waking up between 7:30 and 8 am. I think this is because with Spring and Summer coming up there's more sunlight and it's streaming through my curtains right into my eye line. Usually after waking up I'd stay in bed and hop on my laptop but today I got up and had THREE bowls of cereal. I never really have breakfast, and when I do it's usually not t breakfast time. So this is somewhat amazing. I know my medication didn't impact that but it's something of note. Mum has been praying for me so this could be the result of God's work.
At breakfast mum suggested I have one of those Berocca tablets that give you vitamins and help boost mental alertness or something. So I took two. I realised after doing that that it said take two THROUGHOUT the day so that was aa whoops for me.
I didn't take my Ritalin today.
Then something amazing happened. I always have a messy room. I'm not talking a few things out of place and some dirty clothes on the floor. I'm talking three months worth of dirty clothes on my floor, dirty tissues and lolly wrappers, dust and sand from shoes and an entire corner up to my waist of miscellaneous junk. I have never been able to control that, I've been this way since I was little and I'm a hoarder. I like to have my things in my room. Anyway, I pretty much never do a full clean, I'll be close but not finish and I only do that once maybe every 6 months. And I can only do that with my Ritalin. Well today I basically did a full clean (I have some boxes but they're categorised and waiting for mum to help me sort them since hoarder and all.. I would just keep it all..) and I ate some snacks throughout the day and I'm hungry right now. But I cleaned my entire room in under 6 hours. A task that even uncompleted takes me an entire day I did in 6 hours. Without my medication. I'm honestly so proud of myself right now. I've never achieved anything like this ON MY OWN without medication before.
So that's how I'm currently going. Mum has a bunch of stuff she bought me to try and help but I think it's just going to confuse me and make my room clunkier and junkier. I'll probably just keep the bedside light and that's it.. (There's a literal CD Boombox, a digital alarm clock radio and another bedside lamp.)
I'll update how the rest of my evening is going later if I remember.
Okay, here's my update. I ate a full dinner and other than a little antsiness that showed up when mum started trying to bring other things into my room (lamp, clock) I haven't sort of had an overload.
It's 9:30 now, I just had my acne medication, a melatonin (which I haven't had regularly before or recently) and the seroquel. I haven't and won't (for a while) be taking my endep (for my prolapsed disc) since it's also used as an anti-depressant and since I'm not being prescribed either of these medications for depression I don't want to put a double dose into my system until I know how my body responds. I didn't take melatonin last night since in the past it hasn't done anything other than make me sleep deeper and longer (my problem is getting to sleep not sleeping) however my mum wants me to start taking it to see how it impacts me if I use it somewhat regularly. I think it might affect my 'experiment' and alter how I perceive the seroquel to be affecting me.
First yawn at 11 pm.
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