TL;DR: feeling crappy, just curious about other people’s experiences in both beginning stages and after it settled (if it did at all).

ok y’all, i’m sure these kinds of posts pop up frequently but there’s not many recent posts on this specific med. I just started it yesterday, take 42mg around 9pm when i eat. normally i go to sleep between midnight/1am but the heavy sedation hit me right around 12am. i tossed and turned until 2am sweating so bad while freezing at the same time. i felt like i kept almost falling into sleep paralysis. finally got up and took a hydroxyzine to try and knock myself out since my alarm goes off at 6:15. woke up at 7:05 and was absolutely exhausted, i could only peel open 1 eye for the first 30 mins i was awake. had a stuffy nose, slight headache, felt drunk/drugged, dizzy, weak, off balance. I went into work anyways but had my dad drive me since i didn’t feel safe driving myself. i would have just called out but i had so much to do. i was on the verge of hypothermia again all day. it was 80° and i was in a heavy sweatshirt under a heated blanket for 8 hours. i had 0 brain function which tanked my productivity. i also got a random bloody nose? i have literally never gotten a bloody nose in my life so that’s just a little concerning. took my second dose tonight, im not tired at all yet though? very weird, hate starting new meds.