29 May
what changed after I switched, and what didn't
I want to write this out while it's still fresh because I kept searching for real accounts before I made the change and mostly found either horror stories or people who said it fixed everything. I switched about eight weeks ago after two years of irregular cycles and a lot of disrupted sleep. The first month was uneven. I had a week where I felt more like myself than I had in a long time, followed by a week where I was so tired I cried in the Target parking lot for no particular reason. I did not read too much into either. The sleep is genuinely better now. Not every night, but most nights I get a stretch that feels like actual rest. The joint pain in my knees is still there in the mornings. I had hoped that might shift and it hasn't much. My mood is more stable in a way that's hard to describe except to say that I feel less like I'm managing myself constantly. What I didn't expect was how long it would take to trust the improvement. I kept waiting for it to reverse. It mostly hasn't.