One of the most frustrating and complicated things about chronic illness is trying to determine whether your symptoms are normal or not. Lately I’ve been having some pretty wild insomnia.

We’re talking, wake up at 3am, restless legs, and sit there until morning type insomnia. 7mg of zopiclone type insomnia.

Well, I had an epiphany that it might be my duloxetine because it makes me a bit sleepy but I usually don’t sleep right away after taking it.

I switched to mornings and about a couple hours after I took it, I realized I couldn’t stop wiggling my legs. Duloxetine gives me restless leg. It only impacts about 5% of the population. Lucky meeee!

It’s a constant struggle, though, trying to figure out whether a new symptom is just the new normal or something you can impact with a small change.

I guess it’s time to slowly unpack the rest of my symptoms and see what I can manage now that I know what I am up against.