So, the weird thing that happened yesterday morning about two hours after I took the medication happened again today. Considering the only two times it's ever happened to me, it's been after taking this new migraine medication, I'm pretty sure it's a side effect.
It's just a weird feeling, and only lasted half an hour.
So I don't count it as a bad side effect.
Also experienced a little weird numbness, but I was warned that that was the most common side effect.
This medication can also suppress the appetite, which wouldn't actually be a bad thing for me. I'm fat as fuck, so...
Today, as of a few hours ago, I started feeling a bit of the appetite thing.
But...
The way that I'm feeling it is that I'm hungry. Starving, actually. (And justifiably so, I've barely eaten today.) So I feel that I'm extremely hungry. I just don't have much of an appetite.
This is the kind of appetite suppression that my depression often causes me. And I absolutely hate it. I'm hoping that it'll change into not only not having much of an appetite, but not feeling as hungry overall, and not caring about the hunger that I do feel.
From what I've read, the way it makes you feel about hunger/appetite can change as you increase the dosage.
So here's hoping that it changes to how I really hope it does, rather than staying as it is now. If it stays how it is right now? I'll end up going batshit insane, and I don't think I'll be able to keep taking this medication.
But, the side effects can change, increase and decrease as the dosage increases. So I'm gonna do my very best to hang in here and get to the dosage the neurologist wants me to achieve before we decide whether or not I can live with this. Once I even out at the right dosage, the plan is to switch me over to a once daily longer acting form of this medication that has a lower rate of side effects.
Aside from the weird feeling that starts two hours after taking the medicine and lasts half an hour, the bit of weird numbness, and the appetite thing, I haven't noticed anything else, positive or negative.
So at this point, I'm calling the appetite bit annoying, but overall, I still consider this "so far so good".
I also now have my new "stop the migraine in its tracks" medication to try out next time I have a migraine. And since I feel a migraine brewing in my head already, odds are very likely that I'll be taking this medication sometime over the weekend. (At this point, the migraine hasn't actually started hitting me hard enough to justify taking anything more than caffeine for it yet. In my experiences, if I treat the migraine too early, it may go away for a short period of time, but it'll come back much harder. So I'm waiting patiently.)
Here's hoping that that medication doesn't end up doing the same thing the last one did.