Mirtazapine
Another day, another drug. Or at least, that’s how it feels. Yes, my trusty combination of two antidepressants (enough to make every pharmacist I went to, take me to one side and ask if I was supposed to be on two at once…) has now failed me. They lasted for about 2 1/2 months.
And now, we’re on one last ditch attempt at the antidepressants, before we move onto the Mood Stablisers.
Tomorrow, I start taking Mirtazapine. It’s an SSRI, but it works in a different way to the others that I have taken so far. In general, it’s quite a positive drug. It has very few side effects, including no sexual ones, but it does have it’s draw backs.
When you first take it, it is extremely sedatory, which means that for the first week, you feel like you want to sleep *all* the time. And it also increases appetite. People put on an average of 20lb whilst on it, some as much as 60lb. So if next time you see me, I’m a bit fatter round the edges, be nice!
I’m still working in the call centre. The money’s nice, but the company aren’t actually very good at looking after our customers, which I find hard to cope with. I’m also still tutoring, and it’s going very well.
On Tuesday, I start an Alpha course, run by my sister’s baptist church. It’s basically a course for people to find out about Christianity, and ask all the questions they want to. And since the combination of my sister, Val and Ben haven’t been able to answer me, it could be quite an interesting experience.
There’s not much else going on really. So I’d better finish here.
Bye.