Feb 22, 2023

 3rd day on armodafinil.

Crazy sleep:

To bed at 1:15. Up at 5am due to allergies. (4hrs) Back to bed at 7am and up again at 9am (2hrs). While trying to wake up by watching videos, I fell back to sleep and slept until 11am (1.5). Broken total: 7.5.

I took a coricidin when I woke at 5pm, so the allergies got under control before I went back to sleep but when I woke up at 11 I felt awful and wasn't sure if I would be able to work today.

I managed not to go back to bed by doing some simple photo posts on blogger. I didn't really start moving until about 2pm and didn't start work until 3:30. I do feel that armodafinil was required to give me just enough energy and alertness to work rather than not. Work was divided into two sessions that amounted to 2 hrs.

I continue to have the sense of every day being extra long--not in a bad way but an interesting effect.

Between lunch and work I did some minor things around the house--minor but at least movement. After work, I cleaned the dog yard.

While working (sitting) I noticed that my calves felt tight (as in from fluid retention not muscle tension). I had a bit of that yesterday but not enough to note and I didn't have an expectation it would continue. But it was back more assertively today after both work sessions (the second one being only half an hour) and now as I work on this blog and the symptom excel. 

I'm noticing that taking armodafinil, though it doesn't seem to be giving me energy per se, has made it easier to stay out of bed in the evening. I prefer sitting in a chair to sitting/leaning in bed. I also seem more inclined to write or take photographs than just veg out on videos.

I have noticed a little appetite suppression. Less suppression than just less of a focus of attention. I don't have any trouble eating once I decide to but my body seems to cue me less.