Day 1 on all the meds:

Feelings:
I don't feel super-focused, but I feel better focused. I find that the newness and strangeness of the feeling that being on the medication itself gives me is a bit distracting. :P I am experiencing some anxiety, which is what is preventing me from getting some of my work done (I haven't had any distraction impulses I haven't been able to control...no pinterest or anything! :P), mostly anxiety about the medications themselves (I've never been on so many meds before!). I think this is nothing to worry about because it will take a few weeks for the Cymbalta to start working entirely, and so in the mean time not only is my anxiety left to it's devices but the Concerta might worsen it. So far no depression symptoms today; I am interested in other people and I'm not groggy or tired, and I feel good about myself. I'm starting to get used to the feeling of my mind walking, and not sprinting all the time. I actually thought about what I was going to wear today without ripping twelve items out of my closet first!

Side effects:
Last night I experienced some stomach pain but I'm pretty sure that's because I accidentally ate some cheese-dusted chips and I'm lactose intolerant. Today I've had some mild acid indigestion, but that may be due to another medication I started yesterday for acne which, on second thought, we decided I wont continue until a week or a couple weeks from now when I am used to my other meds. In the beginning I felt jittery but its slowly calming down. I find that I am very thirsty and not very hungry, but that if I drink more water my appetite is better (a win win situation!). Food is not so much repulsive as it is just easy to forget about. It tastes good once I put it in my mouth but I don't really get hungrier when I imagine food, as I used to. I do have a bit of a dry mouth problem, but it isn't too much of an issue (it may be when I practice my horn, I don't know!). It may go away in time, as with most of these side effects. Oh, and I also couldn't sleep last night until like 230 am, but that was mostly due to the gas and bloating effect from those stupid crackers.