this is where you belong

I just found out, thanks to fucking_meds that there is a possibility that the akathisia could become permanent.

Granted the entry in question was about anti-psychotics but I think there's a point where anti-psychotics and antidepressants cross over (imho). And I've had akathisia as a side effect from escitalopram for going on nearly three years (almost as long as I've been taking it, which is also almost three years).

I really don't want permanent akathisia. I have trouble enough sleeping as it is without my legs twitching like Mexican jumping beans.

Anyway, it doesn't really matter, but it's YET ANOTHER THING to tell the doctor, who I think I will be going to see next week.

(Talking of which, the doctor thinks - or, rather, my blood test results said - that I have a vitamin D deficiency. Who knew? Apparently it's really common. My BFF* has it as well. But medication for it does not exist in the UK, and it has to be shipped in from Germany. So I have instructions in German and nothing else. Guess I can use them as reading/translation practise?**)

*She really is my BFF. I've known her for 24 years now! I saw her today for the first time in a year, and it was really weird and lovely at the same time. And for all the things we could have both been diagnosed with, I find that ridiculously weird and comforting at the same time.

**I understood "do not take these if: you are allergic to vitamin D". I mean, how would you know that? Would it mean you're a vampire???

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There were going to be other things in this post, except that I have since forgotten them, and now it's closing in on 1 A.M. in my part of the world. Also I was going to do a butt-ton of combing through Pinterest for interesting crochet patterns/stitches and all the tabs are open, but now I'm tired so I just haven't done it. Tomorrow, perhaps.

(My pinterest is obnoxiously linked to on my profile, if anyone's interested/wants to follow me/wants to sneer at my choices in stuff).