Hey, Miss J!

Feeling disoriented today. Doctor sent me a prescription for a new medication.

The sensation I get, suddenly feeling heat in the back of my head… only to feel it travel down to all my limbs… It’s so strange.

The new medication I’m on is supposed to help control the tremors I’ve developed in my hands.

I’ve had a few lapses in my memory from it, but I’m hoping in time that settles down. Muscles feel a lot weaker right now too. But I’m trying to attribute that to the fact I barely ate the last few days.

Instead of the meds…

Even though the meds might be causing this. Along with the fatigue.

My goodness! It was a rough morning and afternoon. I laid down for a “short nap of about 90 minutes. Woke up and felt even worse. So… went and rolled over and

Oh! I also learned that the new medication will raise my risk of heatstroke. It reduces the ability to sweat.

So, I must stay hydrated.

I also learned the new meds can destroy my teeth if I’m not on top of my dental hygiene too.

I know I’m gonna find that to be a struggle. One think that mentally ill people normally do not tell people who aren’t mentally ill is that… we don’t have the best time when it comes to maintaining dental hygiene.

When in a heavy depression, you don’t even clean your body. If you don’t clean your face and genital region… you clean nothing at all – dental care is at the very bottom of that list.

Now, I have a reason to force myself to contend with that.

What’s funny about all the water though…? I think it’s killing my appetite. I had to force myself to cook tonight, which isn’t normal at all.

Or at least it wasn’t until the latter part of last year.

For a long time, I was substituting the lack of cooked food with cheese and stuff easy to handle. That was the wrong thing to do, because now my cholesterol is up.

Got stuff to attempt to do tonight.

Later!

~J. Lyst