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I'm trying to slow down on my alcohol intake. I don't drink a lot, but I drink it every night with my meds. I've been jittery. Ever since I started cymbalta I feel better, but jittery if that makes any sense. I have this annoying habit of shaking my leg when I get the jitters to kind of ease off some of the energy... I also feel the urge to smoke when I get like this. I used to think that I was manic when I had these urges to move incessantly, and to smoke, but now I know that it's anxiety. That makes a lot more sense. I want to fix it though. ... Sorry I'm rambling...
It was a radical adjustment in my lifestyle, but I feel better than I did in years in some ways. Of course, I feel the diabetes and kidney disease and that's not fun. But cutting back would have been good for me in any situation.
As for agitation being channeled into house cleaning, me too! A side result of that has been also that it helps with my depression. Having my environment more ship shape around me helps me not get so easily bummed out when I start feeling sorry for myself.
I know I sound like some Martha Stewart or some liquor prohibitionist from the 1930s, and I'm neither a neat freak nor a party pooper. I came upon these changes because I had to. But they have helped, and I have to admit it.