I woke up too early today. I thought it was going to be a horrifying day, but once I was awake, I could tell it wasn’t. I took a break from the medication and restarted it at a low dose. I think it’s better at the lower dose. It makes things worse before they get better, so that part sucks, but it’s more bearable now than before. But for how long? When I was on the higher dose, everything was completely unbearable and unmanageable pretty quickly. Now I am in a weird in between land. It feels like when I first start Lyrica. I’m very spaced out, very tired, but can’t sleep well. I have more energy overall, but my muscles are hurting and are very low energy. No headache so far this time around.
I can handle what I’m going through right now, but I don’t know for how much longer though. It’s always a matter of how much time you have to handle a heavy increase in pain. The weight of it accumulates pretty quickly. If I catch up on sleep, that will go a long way. I can always pause the meds to get some catch up time. It’s been ramping up all day, so I probably will have to.