Random med annoyances.

Well, my meds have very definitely built up in my system and I'm finally starting to see some slightly negative side effects/consequences.

The main thing is: CIGARETTES. My God, I want to smoke all the freaking time right now. The thing is, I've always kind of been an off-and-on smoker. The absolute most I ever smoked was maybe a pack every...4-5 days, and those periods always lasted for a couple of months at most. For years now I've been one to keep a pack of cigarettes lying around just in case, because to be honest for whatever reason I like to smoke a cigarette when I'm hungover. It makes me feel better. So sue me. But the past month or so...for the first time in my life I feel the need for a cigarette several times a day. Almost to the point where I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to "quit" if I tried. Ugh.

Secondly, my sleep patterns are screwed the eff up. I used to be in bed by 10:30 and lights out NO later than 11 (and even that was pushing it). For weeks now my bedtime has been getting steadily later and later, to the point where it's rare if I'm in bed with the lights out before midnight...even on weeknights. Which makes getting up at 7 AM for work a bit rough. I thought it was maybe that I was taking my meds too late in the day, but no, I'm not. I take my 20 mg Adderall XR at 9 AM and my 7.5 mg Dexedrine at 3 or 3:15 PM...the same time I've been taking them since I started these meds. I suppose I could take each of them about an hour earlier, but considering I wasn't having trouble relaxing enough to go to bed for the first month and a half that I was taking them, I don't know as if that would really do much good.

Anyway. Enough of my bitching, I suppose. In general I'm still very pleased with my medication (and yes, I will eventually get back to telling my full medication story)...I knew that I'd have to learn to sort of re-balance my life once I started taking meds like this, and I guess now I finally need to buckle down and do so.