I'm leaving for a road trip tomorrow and will be gone for a couple of weeks. My husband, son, and I are going to Wyoming and staying with a friend there for a couple days and doing a few other things too. Our big thing is seeing Mount Rushmore, which I've never done. Should be awesome.

After a bunch of back and forth with my pdoc, she finally put me on a low dose of Zoloft. This is going to be day 6, and I'm doing really well on 25 mg. I'm back to writing and doing stuff normally around the house. It makes me so tired at night that my body can't resist sleeping in that goofy way it sometimes does. Pdoc wants me to go up to 50 mg after a week, but I'm slightly on the elevated side mood-wise, so I might call the office on day 8 and ask to stay on 25, depending on how I'm doing. She initially wanted to put me on an antipsychotic, but after talking to her about how my main issue is depression, she's fine with trying a low dose of an antidepressant because I've told her I've never had issues with low doses. She says if I get a mania, we'll treat it then. I love this doctor so much better than my last one. She actually seems to trust that I know my own body and how I react to things. I'd rather stay on the lowest dose for as long as possible anyway because I seem to always react the exact same way to any med: I respond *immediately* and strongly, and then they stop working after 3-6 months. The highest dose she wants me on is 100 mg, and I completely agree. I didn't have an issue last time until I was at 200 mg.