Change Can Be Good

So, I have been incredibly ill this semester. I have been unable to get myself out of bed with any sort of regularity since December, and that caused a lot of problems with my academia. I was aching all the time, and no matter how much sleep I got, I felt that I needed more. Needless to say, it was not a good place to be. I have been trying to get in to see a doctor at the BYU Health Center for the past month-ish, but I kept missing or rescheduling the appointments (because I couldn't get up...). Well, Friday it all changed. I got up, went to the doctor, and got stuff figured out. For one thing, she took away my Paxil (anti-depressant #2) because it is a sedating medication and replaced it with Wellbutrin (NEW anti-depressant #2) because it is a stimulator. Secondly, she upped the dosage of my Lexapro (anti-depressant #1) from 20mg to 30mg. Thirdly, she had the lab people take blood and (sorry...) urine samples to test for other possibilities as to my aches, pains, and sleepiness. Anyway, here we are on a nice Sunday night/Monday morning, and I am pleased to say that I am already feeling a LOT better. Since Friday, I have gotten up BEFORE noon every day, and I am not extremely tired the whole day. I was with friends at lunchtime and was telling them that I actually felt awake. While it is too early to say for sure that I am "all better", I do believe it is safe to say that I am "much better than I was". I am hoping that the bloodwork comes back negative for anything saddening, since now I am mostly convinced that my chronic aches were the result of untreated depression symptoms and that the fatigue was the result of those symptoms plus that DAMNED PAXIL!!! The Paxil was just the secondary medication, yet it was the one that had basically been controlling my functioning (or lack there of) for the past several months. Curses... Well, anyway, so now things are looking up. I am therefore planning to have a good summer filled with lots of good activities with friends and (for 3 weeks) family. I will actually be active and fun and stuff. Then, when Fall Semester comes around, I am gonna kick its ass, baby!