So, I am at the end of Week 2, and I am feeling ok. Being more awake has its benefits during the day, but at night it can be a pain. I've always had trouble staying asleep, so it is nothing new, but now I wake up in the middle of the night without a shred of tiredness. Takes an age to get back to sleep.
I went to the Dr yesterday to follow up on how I am going with it all. He was pleased that I seemed to have a handle on the side effects, and noted that my blood pressure was the same as it was before I started taking Duromine, so he increased my dose from 15mg to 30 a day. Today is the second day, and I haven't felt any more side effects than I have over the last couple of weeks, so I'm hopefully lucky.
The Dr didn't make me weigh myself when I started, but I weighed myself at home. According to my scales, I went from 115.8kg down to 114.9. Not such a bad loss, considering the Dr said that the first two weeks are usually slow. On the down side, he made me get on the scales in his office....and I hate them. 116.8!!! I know it is all a journey and all that, but sheesh! I will definitely be looking forward to my next appt so I can show a decent difference!!
On another note, I have also chosen to wean myself off my antidepressant medication, Efexor. If I forget to take it for one day (doesn't happen often!), I get dizzy, like the world is a bit surreal, a bit of a headache, and every time I move my eyes I hear a whooshing sound. And I hate it. So the Dr has been helping me with that too. I've gone from 225mg to 150 over the last three-ish weeks without too much trouble. I can't wait to get off them totally so that I can get my brain back
I went to the Dr yesterday to follow up on how I am going with it all. He was pleased that I seemed to have a handle on the side effects, and noted that my blood pressure was the same as it was before I started taking Duromine, so he increased my dose from 15mg to 30 a day. Today is the second day, and I haven't felt any more side effects than I have over the last couple of weeks, so I'm hopefully lucky.
The Dr didn't make me weigh myself when I started, but I weighed myself at home. According to my scales, I went from 115.8kg down to 114.9. Not such a bad loss, considering the Dr said that the first two weeks are usually slow. On the down side, he made me get on the scales in his office....and I hate them. 116.8!!! I know it is all a journey and all that, but sheesh! I will definitely be looking forward to my next appt so I can show a decent difference!!
On another note, I have also chosen to wean myself off my antidepressant medication, Efexor. If I forget to take it for one day (doesn't happen often!), I get dizzy, like the world is a bit surreal, a bit of a headache, and every time I move my eyes I hear a whooshing sound. And I hate it. So the Dr has been helping me with that too. I've gone from 225mg to 150 over the last three-ish weeks without too much trouble. I can't wait to get off them totally so that I can get my brain back
