Happy happy (pills)

It's no use letting one bad day overshadow all the good ones. So when I met my doctor today, I said I wanted off Paxil, and she agreed that if I was doing well - and she said I looked good - it was better to come off the meds. So she wrote me a prescription for new pills - I got down from over half of my previous dosage, and I'll start taking the little yellow pills next week (after my little red ones run out in five days time). I'll phase out of them completely within the next month or so. (And for what it's worth, at today's meditation my solar plexus chakra (related to anxiety) was very open. Which is supposed to be a good sign, if you believe in it. Even if you don't it's for certain that different chakras feel different on different days.)

But seriously, I feel pretty good - and the weather is really helping. It's so sunny and hot, and West End is full of happy tanned (and some burned) people eating ice cream. I resisted the temptation today... Another thing that has occurred to me lately that it might not have been an accident that I started putting on more weight at the same time I started on my medication - many antidepressants, including Paxil, are known to cause some weight gain. We'll see if coming off them will make the weight control a bit easier.