Hi everyone, i just joined today after reading some helpfull threads on here
let me tell you a bit about me so you can better understand, i have health anxiety and a major phobia of being sick
ive had a real rough time of it fron december this year, starting with a bout of flue lasting 2 weeks just after xmas, then a cold 2 weeks later, then a month later a nasty cough, and since march i have had 3 uti infections, the last 2 i had anti biotics for which seems to have killed all my stomach bacteria causing me stomach problems and nauseas, so as you can see it all keeps piling up for me lol.
i was on cit roughly a year ago after becoming so anxious while pregnant with my youngest child, as soon as she was born i went round the doctors for help dealing with my anxiety i just couldnt cope, first we tried prozac which had awfull side effects which evened out but gave me bad teeth grinding in the night and the constant jaw pain was awfull, so he switched me to sertiline sorry if i spelt that wrong lol, there wasnt any side effects when changing, but after 2 months of being on that i couldnt remember things at all, my head was clear as such but if someone asked me my best friends name id be like errrrrrr just give me a sec it will come to me lol, so went back to docs and he changed me to cit, i had no side effect swapping over and everything was great, i still had the teeth grinding but it wasnt every night.
after being on it a year i felt back to my old self no anxiety at all while i was on it so decided to come off it by reducing my dose gradually, this is a bumpy road and i had a lot of side effects coming off but i got there.
but ive just had a really bad year and couldnt cope with the anxiety anymore, so decided to go back on cit
day 1. felt amazing no side effects at all
day 2. major panic attack, thought i was have a reaction, got so dizzy and anxious, hyperventilated etc, had oh call an ambulance i got that bad, they were really good, run a few tests and let me know all was ok. when they left i managed to go to bed for an hour, but didnt sleep that night and was left very anxious
day 3. worse anxiety ever and total feeling of being week, no appitite, my tummy will grumble and ill feel hungry but cant eat, even the smell of food turns my stomach
day 4. very anxious all morning, fuzzy head, yawning, tired, no motivation, dont wanna leave the house, bad nausea and still cant eat but im hungry lol
day 5. i did manage to sleep last night and didnt grind my teeth to much but i felt very anxious all morning, i dont want to interact with anyone, i have 3 kids. the nausea is bad and still cant eat so im drinking build up shakes to curb the hunger.
i just feel like ive had enough, this had deff made my anxiouty so much worse so far, i just want some reassurance that this will all pass, i love my food and i want to be able to eat lol, even bland food turns my stomach right now, i feel sorry for my husband as he has taken time off work to look after the kids while im going through this, but he can only really have another week off and im anxious i wont be able to look after kids in a week because of these side effects, i was better than this before i took them lol. reassurances please no horror stories as i dont think i can take that right now xxx
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forgot to say ive started on 10mg a day in the morning