starting micro-dosing again ! side effects / adjusting to dose /
I (28F) thought id make a post as I am struggling to find anything relating to this online - been searching in micro-dosing causing trouble sleeping / causing anxiety but not much luck in finding anything - i suppose this is because everyones individual experience varies so much & studies are limited etc !!!
I micro-dosed a couple years ago and it was incredible for my mental health (especially anxiety) I was having CBT therapy and my anxiety was so bad i was ready to go on meds for it. I decided to give it a go (mushrooms) and i remember at the start i felt really intense, super anxious, irritable etc. they were 150mg - so I half the dose and begin to feel much better, ended up microdosing for two months , didn't need therapy anymore and felt such a change of self, one i could have never imagined!
i started again because i feel i've been somewhat depressed for a while now, a kind of lingering sadness / feeling muted emotionally / like i have nothing to say to anyone /lacking in inspiration and feeling exhausted and dull and bored of myself. I exercise regularly and have incredible bf and incredible friends but feel i am just existing in a very dull mildly disconnected bubble no matter what. mundane blue kinda feeling. It seems trying it this time has flipped the depressed feeling into anxiety but i guess atleast its doing something and im feeling something haha.
This time i started by halfing the dose as that felt good last time - taking it in the morning, on days i didn't have work or to much to do - three days in a row - I had awful nights sleep, each night. waking up restless and unable to go back to sleep (i didnt remember having this before.) awful dreams, and in the day just feeling headachy, anxious and compressed kinda feeling. Maybe I should half the dose again and build up? but taking any less surely seems a bit too small amount? im not too sure! im also a very highly sensitive person so perhaps this is why.
I do remember some of this headache feeling last time and know that can be a side effect. I wanted to do 4 days on / 3 days off but I felt i had had to avoid taking it as woke up with awful headache on day 4. so I am going to give it 4 days break and see how it goes taking it again after that. I think maybe 3 days on 4 days off might work better with my schedule in general.
But i was wondering if anyone had experienced anything similar? if there is a time at beginning of adjustment and side effects - before it settles down? and if so how long did it take before it started to feel good? I am determined to push through a bit to see if it levels out! :) thank you!!
this is my first post on here and sorry if longwinded/ badly written xxx