What I didn't mention yesterday is that I got a prescription filled for Lexapro and I took my first dose last night. And what a night that turned out to be. I fell asleep sometime after 10 and woke at 2 a.m. with a headache and severe nausea. The headache included pain in my sinus cavities (without the pressure present during a bad cold). This was just 10 milligrams and it's a trial run. I only have 10 days worth. I wasn't told to expect this, but apparently it is common for this particular medication to break YOU in. (Instead of "breaking in new shoes", the new medication does the breaking here.) After an hour of nausea bad enough to sit by the toilet, my dinner finally came up and then it progressed to dry heaves. This hasn't happened to me since my encounter with ruptured ovarian cysts 10 or 11 years ago. I was able to get the dry heaving to stop by massaging my stomach with my knuckles but the nausea was still there. Needless to say, I wasn't able to fall back to sleep. On the plus side, I managed to go to work today and had a good time with it despite the persistent queasiness. I talked with my new nurse practitioner about it all and when I asked about taking half a dose tonight, she said that would be ok. So I've taken half a dose with dinner and so far the queasiness has subsided since I ate. Now whether or not it will stay down throughout the night, that is a whole other question. We shall see.
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