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I posted a few days ago about being afraid of trying this medicine and thank you to everyone for the support! filled the bandaid and I’m on day five. my dr told me it was ok to chop the 7.5mg in half just to get over my anxiety surrounding the medicine. after I take it at night I feel amazing, I feel calm and relaxed but it doesn’t sedate me. I take it and I’m up for 2-3 hours anyway after. the next day I just feel totally off. is that normal and does it subside? I don’t know how to describe it, it’s not BAD, I just feel weird in my own body. at times dizzy and groggy, but then just this odd sense of my body just feeling like it’s not all on correctly.

thanks again for any advice! reading about positive experiences has definitely helped me build up the courage to face medicine anxiety and finally start!

I can preface this with I’ve had a tough go at it with mental health medications. I’ve been on them in some capacity since I was 15/16. Depression, social anxiety, OCD, and the worst one as of late, panic attacks

any SSRI I can’t handle, I get significantly worse, get akathisia (basically I can’t sit still, I feel like I’m having an hours-long panic attacks, I’m not in my body, my skin hurts and burns, I feel like I’m high. I get it from NyQuil, anti vertigo meds, sudafed, I’m just lucky like that). Even got serotonin syndrome once. SNRIs are a tiny bit better in that I don’t get the same side effects but they also don’t help (I’d get maybe 40% relief on a good day). anti psychotics were a living hell - labored breathing, couldn’t move my limbs, akathisia (again, this one is a constant of mine). most recently I was struggling with panic attacks and back in November switched from an SNRI to Zoloft. my psychiatrist assured me zoloft was well tolerated and it would be ok. I had been on cymbalta highest dose for five years and she tapered me off in three weeks. got serotonin syndrome with Zoloft and had to stop immediately then went into complete withdrawals. needless to say, November was the worst month of my life

I started with a new psychiatrist who recommended l methylfolate and vitamin B complex. I got akathisa from the combo, from l methylfolate alone and from vitamin B alone. The we tried tofranil. Lo and beheld: akathisia.

i met with him and he prescribed Remeron. Ive been talking with both him and my therapist about how I’ve now developed severe anxiety around medication just given the fact that everything between now and November has caused such debilitating side effects.

im petrified to start it. We’re staring at 7mg. I guess does anyone have success stories to share? Anyone get akathisia from it? Anything to look out for?

thanks in advance!

my Dr gave me a Dexcom g7 to wear for 10 days as he thinks I have reactive hypoglycemia. the first day it dipped low for about an hour, but then showed regular blood sugar for the next two days. the sensor was damaged and i just a new one today. it’s been showing pretty consistently low all day, including critically low for about a half hour. is this sensor pretty accurate or does it take some time to adjust to your body?

I have horrible reactions to SSRIs due in part to how my liver digests medications. L methylfolate and vitamin B complex all give me the same side effect: akathisia. I feel like I’m high, like I can’t stop moving, like I’m stuck in a massive panic attack for hours on end. I also have a panic disorder which I’m trying to medicate. my dr prescribed a tiny dose of tofranil. anyone have experience with it? if so, was it tolerable?

TLDR: tips for running while on anxiety meds to avoid feeling weak and exhausted within a few minutes?

I have had panic attacks my ENTIRE life (one of my first memories is hyperventilating when I was five because my mom put me in my brothers crib with him and went in another room to get something and I lost it because I couldn’t get out. Quite literally, my entire life). I’ve always been prescribed klonopin and it works great. there are times where the panic attacks are calm and I go months without needing panic attacks. then there are times they’re so severe and so often my dr prescribes it twice daily for a few months. I’m in that phase right now, and on top of that my dr recently started me on Tofranil

i signed up with a charity months ago to run a marathon. running has always been an amazing outlet for me. on my most recent run I had a debilitating panic attack and haven’t run in two weeks. it was a bit of a chicken and an egg, I couldn’t tell if because I’m in a bad episode, it made my body feel worse and that triggered the panic attack OR if my body felt weak from the medication, the odd body sensation freaked me out and THEN I had a panic attack. it was a bizarre one, I felt like my legs were sewn on backwards, my hands didn’t exist, then the normal things like hyperventilating, feeling weak, feeling dizzy, feeling like I had marbles in my mouth when I tried to talk.

How does everyone manage to run/exercise while on sedating medication? I’ve never been a morning runner but is the solution as simple as just run before taking my meds that day? has anyone run a marathon on a lot of Medication (right now I’m morning klonopin and lamotragine, night time propranolol lamotragine and tofranil)

for volunteering I signed up to be a race day ambassador, solely because it was the only slot open. there’s no explanation online of what that entails, has anyone ever done this position before that can provide insight?

I had been talking Wegovy for almost two years. I have PCOS and it helped significantly with insulin resistance and weight loss. However, the weight loss completely plateaued about 8 months ago. I was fine with it because it was still making me feel great (no more dizzy spells or blood sugar issues.) However, about six months ago I started getting sick daily on Wegovy. nothing changed in my life, if anything I got healthier, started training for a half marathon, cut out drinking completely. Fast forward - I just couldnt take it anymore and asked my Endo for options. she switched me from 2.4mg Wegovy to 7.5mg zepbound. I told her I am extremely sensitive to medicine changes and get every side effect under the sun so I took half the dose. the next few days I felt like I couldn’t sit still, I was hot on the inside and felt like I was on the verge of a panic attack. I messaged my dr and she said let the side effects subside and we’ll start even lower, then if I still feel like that, we’ll go back to the Wegovy.

I guess my question is 1. has anyone felt like that on Zepbound and did it go away

2. has anyone switched back to Wegovy and was going back up from the lowest dose to the highest as bad as the first time around, or does your body somehow recognize the semaglutide from before?

im a little weary of taking my next dose of the Zepbound even though it’s Lower. it’s been one week since I took my first dose and today is the first day I’ve felt kind of normal. I’m still waking up in the middle of the night with panic attacks though so I was thinking of giving it another day or two until that goes away too since my dr said let the side effects subside before trying again