Something a bit disturbing happened to me today; I was running an errand, picking up contacts for G when I was suddenly overwhelmed by this...all-consuming exhaustion. It made no sense. I've done no heavy labor. I haven't been sleeping well lately, but this was something different. It was 2pm and I wanted, no, needed to lie down. Almost immediately. While I was driving down Connecticut avenue. Nicht gut. Nicht gut at all.
I ended up turning on Tilden and high-tailing it back here and lying down but I was perplexed. What was making me feel this massive level of fatigue. Something wasn't right and I felt terrible. I started to fret; what if I get a job? How will I deal with nine hours somewhere if I can't handle a 45 minute errand? WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME?
After sleeping for a bit (and yet, I woke up still exhausted) I called my mom and she sussed out the problem. My medications had just been changed and the newest one was known to cause extreme fatigue. I felt drugged. I've been roofied once (!) and this felt a LOT like that, which is a terrifying feeling. It was also frustrating, because through no fault of my own, I was being impeded because my...less than capable new physician hadn't heard my concerns about changing a routine that was working for me. It all felt so unnecessary. And scary. And I don't want to keep feeling like this, but I'm no doctor and I don't have another appointment for several weeks. This blows.
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