Things went much better today. After a couple weeks of dysfunction. It really helped getting enough (or at least closer to enough) sleep last night. I felt good this morning. Still a little blah.. but not down. The weather was lovely and I think that helped as well. The receptionist kindly limited referrals to my line... I didn't ask her to but she figured since I was out a few days I wasn't feeling very well. I appreciated that a lot.
Anyway - I'm still crashing a little in the afternoon. So I don't know if I need a higher dose or not. I'll be talking to my doc about it in any case.
One of the grand side effects of depression (if there can be something grand about it) is that awesome feeling of recognizing being contended when I am. As I got home from work today with the kiddo and walked into the somewhat clean house with my kitties meowing their daily tales at me I felt content.
I'm a little tired now so I'm planning to get to bed soon. The unisom last night seems to have helped shift me back to a more appropriate sleep schedule.
So I'm just praying that I'm on my way back out of the valley.
The problem for me with the sleep meds is they seem to overdo it for me, I feel like I'm in a dreamlike state for quite awhile after the 8 or so hours sleep.
It's hard for me to tell how much insomnia is the effexor, and how much is just me, I am so NOT a 90-5 person but I'm stuck in a 9-5 world.. so some of the insomnia is purely me being ready to function at what is for me a "normal" time because when daylight comes it feels like evening to me and I'm ready for sleep around 10 am instead of 10 pm.