pain and numbness

I ache all over. Feel physically weak. My hands and arms in particular feel weighed down with lead. Achy - almost pins and needles-y - an interesting combination of pain and numbness.

I would be much more concerned about this if I didn't know the reasons for it. I've just started taking a couple of new antidepressive meds, and they all have stuff like this as side-effects. Added to which, it's important to take these drugs at the same time each day, but I've been having trouble doing so because I feel ridiculously tired. I don't know whether I'm genuinely tired because trying to get myself better involves a lot of effort, or if it's psychosomatic tiredness generated by some part of my brain to keep me sedated so that I don't cause myself injury. It could be both. But it's not very helpful to still be asleep at a time when I need to be awake, eating something and taking the next pill.

I'm walking around at the moment, stretching various muscles and rubbing myself, just trying to ease this crampy feeling. Nothing seems to help much, although I've got some relief from closing my hand around a bunch of keys and feeling the spikiness, or digging my fingernails into my palms. No, I'm not going to do anything heavier than that - don't need to "cut myself to see if I still feel" - I know I will feel again once I've got into a more regular routine and the side-effects have died down a bit. It's still disconcerting, though. I could do with a massage.

In other news, ( The London Aquarium no longer has an octopus! )