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- 1y
Starting medications again
Hey! Has anyone experienced worse anxiety and intrusive thoughts when first starting medications? The morning anxiety is the worst!
Hey! Has anyone experienced worse anxiety and intrusive thoughts when first starting medications? The morning anxiety is the worst!
i wake up with anxiety a lot and it feels like an everyday thing :(
I completely get this, that horrible feeling of distress and a huge empty feeling in your stomach. But we got this š you aren't alone, and seeing your comment helps reassure me that I'm not alone, itll be ok.
When I started Prozac my intrusive thoughts were so bad. I have health ocd and Iām scared of medications. But I have been on it for about 5 months and it has helped me tremendously
@Meow98 Oh yes! Iām scared of meds as well, even though Iāve been on it before itās like Iām starting over from square one!
Sometimes this can happen! It takes a few weeks for your body to become used to a new medication. :) I've noticed here lately that I've been having more bad dreams than usual. I'm taking an SSRI right now along with my regular anti-anxiety med & both do seem to be helping. But YES. I get anxious too when I first wake up! You're not alone.
However, I'm also in EMDR therapy along with ERP. š So that could be another cause of my outlandish dreams.
Me too! Iām Prozac and I have as needed anti anxiety medication which helps with the transition periodā¦.i was on Prozac before and did well with it, I came off about a year, year 1/2 ago bc I was going great, unfortunately life threw a major trauma at me so back to ERP and on medication I go! Haha I just couldnāt remember what I felt like my first time around with medsā¦.can you tell me more about this EMDR? Iāve done a little reading on it but havenāt spoken to someone who has done it
My OCD really spiked on my new medication and after raising the dose surprisingly Iām having less symptoms than before I started. So be tried a lot of others that didnāt work though so listen to your body and your doctor š§āāļø
Has anyone experienced a spike of OCD intrusive thoughts even if you are increasing your dose? I wonder why this happens. Iām increasing my Lexapro dose from 10 to 15mg and I feel like Iām back to being anxious with my ocd
@Anonymous When I was on Prozac before I did experience anxiety and like being amped when I would increase the dose, it would go away after a week or so
Iām a few days in on starting 10 mg of Prozac, my anxiety has definitely been heightened and itās making it really hard for me to eat :( also sleep has been very hard when the intrusive thoughts fill my head. I want to stick with the medication and give it a good shot as I know it could really help me. Any suggestions or some encouragement to help me get through this time
my psychiatrist is starting me on a low dose (10mg once daily as needed) of propranolol in two days. iām very nervous as i really donāt like experimenting with new meds..it makes me so scared and so anxious. but i think my anxiety has gotten so bad that i need to start using stronger meds. before i was on hydroxyzine which is basically just benadryl. and then i was on buspirone 3x daily, which was basically like taking tic tacs for me. and what i struggle with in anxiety is the physical symptoms it gives me. which causes my anxiety to get stronger. which makes my medical OCD super aggressive. itās a vicious cycle. so iām feeling sort of optimistic that a beta blocker can help. i know it wonāt take the anxious thoughts away, but knowing that itāll help the racing, climbing heart rate, and loosen my chest muscles, AND itāll help with my vestibular migraines? i think thatās a win in and of itself. iām hopeful ššš» and i would like to point out that i know medications will never do all of the work for you, that you have to meet them halfway, but the medications i previously mentioned ^ werenāt even meeting me a quarter of the way!
So my therapist told me to start telling myself every time I have an intrusive thought just say oh thereās that thought again, and donāt try to figure it out or do mental compulsions. Well our usual tactic of āthereās that thought/feeling againā is not working at all this morning. This morning I was having really bad anxiety, it hits hardest in the morning when I am lying in bed with my son and I know the thoughts could come at any minute. Well they did, and I immediately was like no please just think of anything else. Well in pushing away the thoughts, I had this really weird feeling like I couldnāt decipher between reality and images. I was just getting flashes of images that felt so real. Even though I could physically feel my body and know I wasnt engaging in the thought or acting on it. It was like a flash of anxiety that hit and I couldnāt tell what was real and wasnāt. So of course my mind starts trying to figure that feeling out and if what I was thinking about just happened. And no matter how many times Iāve tried to say thereās that thought/feeling again, I canāt let it go. I was physically conscious and could feel my body but mentally I couldnāt. Itās so weird and hard to explain. But Iāve been doubting and second guessing that moment all morning and Iām in a bad spiral, again. š itās like every time I think Iām moving forward I get sucked back in and feel like I canāt practice my tools anymore. I donāt know what I should do š©
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