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February 11, 2001
Loopy...
I started taking the Wellbutrin on Friday, and man, does it make me giddy. I took the first pill Friday morning, and within an hour, I felt like I'd just chugged three cups of coffee. It's nice to be so energetic in the morning (usually I'm falling asleep on the T) but when it wore off around midday, I felt like crap. I kept having dizzy spells (at one point I was sure I was going to faint) and I just wanted to lie down and take a nap. I ended up going home early, feeling very glad that I had the weekend to adjust to this stuff. Right now, I'm only taking it once a day -- tomorrow I start taking it twice daily. The side effects are getting a little less noticible, and the cigarette cravings are weaker. I'm still smoking -- the doctor told me not to even try to cut back until I'd been on the medication for a week or so, and to just let it happen without forcing it. I am trying to smoke only when I really, really want a cigarette, instead of just lighting up when I'm bored (which I do at home -- if I'm just sitting and watching TV or reading, I chain smoke. I think that's going to be the hardest habit to break). Yesterday, while curled up on my bed watching Fight Club (which, incidentally, bored the socks off me -- probably because I'd read the novel, and knew the ending.) I tried to make myself wait at least an hour between cigarettes, and it was harder than I'd expected it to be. But I keep reminding myself to give it time, and it'll happen... and hey, at least I'm in a really good mood about the wole thing!
At the moment, I'm at school -- I'm supposed to be meeting with some classmates, to work on a group project, and I flaked out and thought we were meeting at noon, instead of at one o'clock. So I'm here very early, sitting in a little basement common area, playing on one of the cute little blue iMacs. It's deathly quiet, which is making me sleepy. The cafeteria isn't open, which annoys me because I'm realy hungry, and have a wild craving for a cheeseburger. And now, since it's almost one, I'm off to get some work done -- may as well be productive as long as I'm here!
Posted by Mary Ellen at February 11, 2001 12:15 PM