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So my psychiatrist just lowered me from 10mg to 5mg after about a month or so of adjusting and then taking 10mg because of side effects.

The day i took 5mg i almost had a panic attack which i haven’t had since i adjusted to the SSRI the first time. My heart rate elevated overall since i lowered my dose and im experiencing depressive mood swings/ emptyness and wondering why is life worth living (no suicidal thoughts just empty and helpless cause i don’t want to feel like this forever)

I’m on day 6 rn and i will be getting in touch with my psychiatrist and telling her about this because i don’t know if it’s just because going from 10mg to 5mg was too sudden and its withdrawl symptoms and i should just wait it out until i adjust or if its just not high enough of a dose for me.

Does anybody else have experience with this and any advice that could help me? Maybe tell me when did you start getting better? Because the side effect that i had because of which we lowered the dose are no longer affecting me so i don’t know if that means it’s too low of a dose or i just need to wait it out.

Feel free to ask me any questions.

I struggle with health anxiety and any “normal” body sensation or thing makes me draw the worst case scenario. So how do you differentiate if you should get checked out or if its just you making it up. Since i do this all the time and its always something different, and it cant be all of those things and i logically cant go and get checked for every single thing, just because i found that it could be something serious, but my biggest fear is being disregarded because of my anxiety when it is not anxiety. So any tips?

I struggle with health anxiety and any “normal” body sensation or thing makes me draw the worst case scenario. So how do you differentiate if you should get checked out or if its just you making it up. Since i do this all the time and its always something different, and it cant be all of those things. My biggest fear is being disregarded because of my anxiety when it is not anxiety. So any tips?

Hi, I’m 18F and I have pretty bad health anxiety, so I’m trying to figure out whether this is something that is normal or if i should be worried.

For the past day or two I’ve been very aware of a pulsating feeling in my upper abdomen/stomach area, especially when lying down on my left side. It’s not painful, and I don’t have severe symptoms with it, but it feels uncomfortable and makes me hyper-focus on it. Two days ago it was happening throughout the whole night and kept waking me up because it was annoying.

I’ve also been under a lot of stress/anxiety recently, adjusting my SSRI dose (escitalopram), probably about to start my period, and I tend to have lower blood pressure. I also felt this like maybe two weeks ago but i feel like it started after i started taking SSRI (not saying its related, it didn’t start immediately after i started them i just realized the first time i felt it was probably after, but again i could have felt it before and i just did not pay attention to it since back then i wasn’t so anxious, but it definitely never was this presistent/strong)

I know you can normally feel the abdominal pulse sometimes, especially in thinner people but my brain keeps fixating on it since i have been thinner than i am now and i haven’t noticed it.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I am willing to answer any follow up questions if that helps you give me some advice!

Hi, I’m 18F and I have pretty bad health anxiety, so I’m trying to figure out whether this is something that is normal or if i should be worried.

For the past day or two I’ve been very aware of a pulsating feeling in my upper abdomen/stomach area, especially when lying down on my left side. It’s not painful, and I don’t have severe symptoms with it, but it feels uncomfortable and makes me hyper-focus on it. Two days ago it was happening throughout the whole night and kept waking me up because it was annoying.

I’ve also been under a lot of stress/anxiety recently, adjusting my SSRI dose (escitalopram/Elicea), probably about to start my period, and I tend to have lower blood pressure. I also felt this like maybe two weeks ago but i feel like it started after i started taking SSRI (not saying its related, it didn’t start immediately after i started them i just realized the first time i felt it was probably after, but again i could have felt it before and i just did not pay attention to it since back then i wasn’t so anxious, but it definitely never was this presistent/strong)

I know you can normally feel the abdominal pulse sometimes, especially in thinner people but my brain keeps fixating on it since i have been thinner than i am now and i haven’t noticed it.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I am willing to answer any follow up questions if that helps you give me some advice!

Hi, I’m 18F and I have pretty bad health anxiety, so I’m trying to figure out whether this is something that is normal or if i should be worried.

For the past day or two I’ve been very aware of a pulsating feeling in my upper abdomen/stomach area, especially when lying down on my left side. It’s not painful, and I don’t have severe symptoms with it, but it feels uncomfortable and makes me hyper-focus on it. Two days ago it was happening throughout the whole night and kept waking me up because it was annoying.

I’ve also been under a lot of stress/anxiety recently, adjusting my SSRI dose (escitalopram/Elicea), probably about to start my period, and I tend to have lower blood pressure. I also felt this like maybe two weeks ago but i feel like it started after i started taking SSRI (not saying its related, it didn’t start immediately after i started them i just realized the first time i felt it was probably after, but again i could have felt it before and i just did not pay attention to it since back then i wasn’t so anxious, but it definitely never was this presistent/strong)

I know you can normally feel the abdominal pulse sometimes, especially in thinner people but my brain keeps fixating on it since i have been thinner than i am now and i haven’t noticed it.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I am willing to answer any follow up questions if that helps you give me some advice!

I have always been an anxious person, but about a month ago. it got out of hand with a panic episode now I have a high focus on health anxiety and death. I started taking lexapro about a month and a bit ago. I got recently lowered to half a dose by my psychiatrist and I’ve been feeling like I did back at the start, I’m more prone to panic,my heart rate is elevated. I cant stop thinking about bad things that scare me happening even if I don’t do anything for half the day and then just go to work I feel so tired at the end of the day I sometimes feel like the light is always off even though I do get good moments and before I change my dose, I was starting to think like oh I’m feeling better. I just feel like this is never going to end and I feel so hopeless. Any advice?

Has anyone experienced elevated heart rate while adjusting their SSRI dose?

I’m on escitalopram and about 3 days ago my psychiatrist lowered my dose from a full pill to half because of emotional blunting/low libido. On the exact same day I also started taking ginkgo 120 mg which was also prescriped to me by her.

On day 2 of lowering my dose i notices i had higher heart rate, feeling more physically anxious/on edge, etc like i did when i first started them. Yesterday my HR felt elevated even at rest. Today it’s better: around 70–75 lying down, but when I stand it can go to 90–105 up to 115 if im doing something. Tho my hrh is still the same as before.

I know nobody can diagnose me online, but I’m mainly asking:
\- Did anyone experience increased heart rate during dose reductions/adjustments?
\- How long did it last for you?
\- Did supplements like ginkgo make things worse?
\- Did it settle on its own after a few days/weeks?

I’ll contact my psychiatrist tomorrow since it’s Sunday, but I’d really appreciate hearing other people’s experiences because I’m anxious about it.

Has anyone experienced elevated heart rate while adjusting their SSRI dose?

I’m on escitalopram and about 3 days ago my psychiatrist lowered my dose from a full pill to half because of emotional blunting/low libido. On the exact same day I also started taking ginkgo 120 mg which was also prescriped to me by her.

On day 2 of lowering my dose i notices i had higher heart rate, feeling more physically anxious/on edge, etc like i did when i first started them. Yesterday my HR felt elevated even at rest. Today it’s better: around 70–75 lying down, but when I stand it can go to 90–105 up to 115 if im doing something.

I know nobody can diagnose me online, but I’m mainly asking:
- Did anyone experience increased heart rate during dose reductions/adjustments?
- How long did it last for you?
- Did supplements like ginkgo make things worse?
- Did it settle on its own after a few days/weeks?

I’ll contact my psychiatrist tomorrow since it’s Sunday, but I’d really appreciate hearing other people’s experiences because I’m anxious about it.

Has anyone experienced elevated heart rate while adjusting their SSRI dose?

I’m on escitalopram and about 3 days ago my psychiatrist lowered my dose from a full pill to half because of emotional blunting/low libido. On the exact same day I also started taking ginkgo 120 mg which was also prescriped to me by her.

On day 2 of lowering my dose i notices i had higher heart rate, feeling more physically anxious/on edge, etc like i did when i first started them. Yesterday my HR felt elevated even at rest. Today it’s better: around 70–75 lying down, but when I stand it can go to 90–105 up to 115 if im doing something.

I know nobody can diagnose me online, but I’m mainly asking:
- Did anyone experience increased heart rate during dose reductions/adjustments?
- How long did it last for you?
- Did supplements like ginkgo make things worse?
- Did it settle on its own after a few days/weeks?

I’ll contact my psychiatrist tomorrow since it’s Sunday, but I’d really appreciate hearing other people’s experiences because I’m anxious about it.

Has anyone experienced elevated heart rate while adjusting their SSRI dose?

I’m on escitalopram and about 3 days ago my psychiatrist lowered my dose from a full pill to half because of emotional blunting/low libido. On the exact same day I also started taking ginkgo 120 mg which was also prescriped to me by her.

On day 2 of lowering my dose i notices i had higher heart rate, feeling more physically anxious/on edge, etc like i did when i first started them. Yesterday my HR felt elevated even at rest. Today it’s better: around 70–75 lying down, but when I stand it can go to 90–105 up to 115 if im doing something.

I know nobody can diagnose me online, but I’m mainly asking:
- Did anyone experience increased heart rate during dose reductions/adjustments?
- How long did it last for you?
- Did supplements like ginkgo make things worse?
- Did it settle on its own after a few days/weeks?

I’ll contact my psychiatrist tomorrow since it’s Sunday, but I’d really appreciate hearing other people’s experiences because I’m anxious about it.

Has anyone experienced elevated heart rate while adjusting their SSRI dose?

I’m on escitalopram and about 3 days ago my psychiatrist lowered my dose from a full pill to half because of emotional blunting/low libido. On the exact same day I also started taking ginkgo 120 mg which was also prescriped to me by her.

On day 2 of lowering my dose i notices i had higher heart rate, feeling more physically anxious/on edge, etc like i did when i first started them. Yesterday my HR felt elevated even at rest. Today it’s better: around 70–75 lying down, but when I stand it can go to 90–105 up to 115 if im doing something.

I know nobody can diagnose me online, but I’m mainly asking:
- Did anyone experience increased heart rate during dose reductions/adjustments?
- How long did it last for you?
- Did supplements like ginkgo make things worse?
- Did it settle on its own after a few days/weeks?
I’m willing to answer any questions that might help you answer this.

I’ll contact my psychiatrist tomorrow since it’s Sunday, but I’d really appreciate hearing other people’s experiences because I’m anxious about it.

Has anyone experienced elevated heart rate while adjusting their SSRI dose?

I’m on escitalopram and about 3 days ago my psychiatrist lowered my dose from a full pill to half because of emotional blunting/low libido. On the exact same day I also started taking ginkgo 120 mg which was also prescriped to me by her.

On day 2 of lowering my dose i notices i had higher heart rate, feeling more physically anxious/on edge, etc like i did when i first started them. Yesterday my HR felt elevated even at rest. Today it’s better: around 70–75 lying down, but when I stand it can go to 90–105 up to 115 if im doing something.

I know nobody can diagnose me online, but I’m mainly asking:
- Did anyone experience increased heart rate during dose reductions/adjustments?
- How long did it last for you?
- Did supplements like ginkgo make things worse?
- Did it settle on its own after a few days/weeks?

I’ll contact my psychiatrist tomorrow since it’s Sunday, but I’d really appreciate hearing other people’s experiences because I’m anxious about it.

Has anyone experienced elevated heart rate while adjusting their SSRI dose?

I’m on escitalopram and about 3 days ago my psychiatrist lowered my dose from a full pill to half because of emotional blunting/low libido. On the exact same day I also started taking ginkgo 120 mg which was also prescriped to me by her.

On day 2 of lowering my dose i notices i had higher heart rate, feeling more physically anxious/on edge, etc like i did when i first started them. Yesterday my HR felt elevated even at rest. Today it’s better: around 70–75 lying down, but when I stand it can go to 90–105 up to 115 if im doing something.

I know nobody can diagnose me online, but I’m mainly asking:
- Did anyone experience increased heart rate during dose reductions/adjustments?
- How long did it last for you?
- Did supplements like ginkgo make things worse?
- Did it settle on its own after a few days/weeks?

I’ll contact my psychiatrist tomorrow since it’s Sunday, but I’d really appreciate hearing other people’s experiences because I’m anxious about it.

i’ve always had problems with low blood pressure in the sense of when I would stood up fast I would get dizzy. It was never as bad as fainting or having to stop and hold onto something only a few f times that happened to me. But I recently started an SSRI which is known for lowering blood pressure. I was at a doctor my vitamins and everything is in check so it’s not that. I also drink a lot of water and I have been adjusted to half a pill of the SSRI in advisor taking Ginko and caffeine but I’m wondering if anybody else struggles with this how do you manage it especially if you have symptoms, cause i’m tired of feeling dizzy so easily and being sensitive to light and feeling like I’m out of it. hopefully the lowering of the pill and the supplement will help while it starts to work any advice?

i’ve always had problems with low blood pressure in the sense of when I would stood up fast I would get dizzy. It was never as bad as fainting or having to stop and hold onto something only a few f times that happened to me. But I recently started an SSRI which is known for lowering blood pressure. I was at a doctor my vitamins and everything is in check so it’s not that. I also drink a lot of water and I have been adjusted to half a pill of the SSRI in advisor taking Ginko and caffeine but I’m wondering if anybody else struggles with this how do you manage it especially if you have symptoms, cause i’m tired of feeling dizzy so easily and being sensitive to light and feeling like I’m out of it. hopefully the lowering of the pill and the supplement will help while it starts to work any advice?