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Thursday, March 23, 2006AAAAAWAKELast night I met a medication that doesn't make me tired. First time that I can think of! I don't count birth control because that's just hormones, and for me the purpose is hormone treatment. Even Ibuprofen has been known to make me drowsy. Non-drowsy things aren't for me. And when you get to things like Benadryl, Sudafed and Nyquil = Good night Jennifer!Have I ever told y'all about the time in High School I feel asleep before my head even hit the pillow? I took Benadryl (my one and only time thus far), and unbeknownced to me, I had 5 minutes. That's all, 5. I walked to my room, sat down on my bed, and next thing I knew I was awake in the morning. Thankfully I had fallen onto laying on my bed instead of off of it! With Sudafed and Nyquil it takes 15 minutes to hit, and while I'm not unconscious immediately, I sure want to be. The worst was when I took Sudafed Non-drowsy one morning during my Sophmore year (I believe it was) so I could go to school, and spent my entire first period trying to get through a quiz in English that the rest of the class had done in about 15-20 minutes. My mind was so cloudy and my whole body just wanted to sleep. On top of that, 4 hours to the minute after I took the meds my mind started to clear and the drowsiness went away, so I know it was the non-drowsy medicine that is only supposed to last 4 hours that caused me so much problems. Anyway, back to the anti-anxiety med my doctor proscribed so I can fly without panicing. I've thought for a while since I had an extra one to try it out before I fly so I can see how I'm going to react to it. Then I started reading up on the side-effects and got a bit worried because I will have to drive home after my return flight on Sunday and the meds say don't operate heavy machinery or drive. The most common side-effects are drowiness and dizziness. Uh oh. Well I took it last night at 7:10pm. For quite I while I noticed no change. Eventually I started to realize that I was *awake*. AAAAA-WAKE. And I had been that way and was staying that way. I was UP. So, yay! No problems with the gonna have to drive issue! I also noticed that I felt -normal-. I was very precisly normal. I felt straight down the line normal, and felt that way for quite a while. I'm not sure if it was because I was constantly paying attention to my mood to figure out how the meds would affect me and I just was normal the whole time (not too likely with me), or if that was the effect. Normalicy abounds. That and being AWAKE. Eventually I went to bed, and did manage to fall asleep without much issue. It was like I crashed, which is probably exactly what happened! |
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