Medication on trial

I was awake for three hours of eight in bed, and peeing far too much. It's the end of my disastrous course with Doxazosin. I move on to felodipine instead today We'll see what difference it makes. I made an effort to drink more than a litre before breakfast, and at least my head was clear afterwards, when it was time to take the first dose of this new trial medication. I had a text message from Canna Pharmacy to tell me that part two of the prescribed course of slow release doxazosin had arrived. 

After breakfast, I went to the pharmacy with all the unused packs of the tablets I'd received - some of them three months worth, to hand them in and renounce the late arriving packet. I'm so relieved to see the back of them. If anything I've felt more sick and exhausted on these meds than any other I've dutifully taken. Perhaps I didn't complain early enough. 

I forwarded to my sister several digital albums of Jasmine's photos taken on her Japan trip. She's turning out to be a gifted photographer, I'm glad she's aiming to do a photographic course at University. Her next journey abroad will be in Europe, including Holland this time.

Next, food shopping. I needed to go home to get a rucksack and take a respite from exhaustion and sleep loss. I went to Tesco's and walked back with a heavy load of plant milks, kefir and fruit, being careful not to push myself. The new tablets are causing me to feel a bit light headed, but nothing more that I'm aware of. Exhaustion is causing me to make more typing errors than usual, and affecting my very short term memory. I cope badly with distraction, and have to concentrate more when out walking unless I'm on a route I habitually use. I had to use Google maps to get me to the pharmacy. It's as if my memorised map is breaking up. It's something to do with my eyesight I think, no longer as sharp as it has been all my life.

I slept in the chair for nearly two hours after lunch, then went out and walked for an hour in Llandaff Fields at sunset. It was dark by the time I got home, feeling better for exercise which didn't drain me of energy. The new meds haven't had the same impact as the ones I stopped taking. I hope it stays like that.

After supper I watched a couple of episodes of 'Juge Marianne', French police procedural set on the Cote d'Azur with a feelgood comedy side to it. It's an interesting way to showcase the many faceted role of a 'juge d'instruction' or examining magistrate in the French legal system, who oversees investigations and decides when charges can be brought against on offender. Entertaining, not too intense a watch. I have little interest in heavy complex stories at the moment. Then early bed, hoping for a better night's sleep.