As I described in the comments to my last post, the doctor was interested in having me start seeing a counselor and also in tinkering with my meds, but understanding that week 7 of the quarter is not a great time to start that stuff. His short-term advice was to double my bupropion dose. I wound up not having quite enough tablets on hand to make it through the long weekend before the mail-order pharmacy could get me more, so I had a couple days of alternating one pill or two.

Immediate effects:

• I've woken up before Shawn's come to wake me every day since Tuesday. (I'm sure the early dawn and recent sunny weather play a part in this too.)
  
• I've been much more restless during my sleep, more tossing and turning and surfacing to half-awareness, but I don't seem to be having quality of rest issues (except for last night, when I stayed up past 1am).
  
• I've been a lot more irritable than was the norm over the last few months. Then again, I've been pretty excessively easygoing/unflappable unless I was tipping over into anxiety freakouts, so this may actually be a return to a more normal mood. Still, "ticked" was the word of the weekend.
  
• I was crazy energetic yesterday. I also had a very light appetite.

Yesterday I woke up at 7:55, spent about 45 minutes drinking coffee, checking email and WoW auctions, etc, and then got dressed and was out on the deck gardening before 9am. Since my parents went home on Sunday I have filled up 9 planters, planted 7 tomatoes, a bunch of baby shallots, some basil (both starts and seed), divided and repotted a couple of lavenders I bought last summer, and seeded my three sisters bed at the p-patch. I managed to do all this without getting sunburned or hurting myself!

The house is also a lot cleaner than it was when I got up on Friday, although I wouldn't yet call it clean. My room is kind of a disaster, largely because the clutter in the livingroom got shoveled in there when we cleaned for the BBQ. I have 2 weeks off from the evening German class, so hopefully I'll get more cleaning done.

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