That’s a BIG step!!
You have got this!
You have taken the first step. Your journey will be over before you know it.
My advice is to follow Dr. James advice. There’s no better.
Mike

So sorry that you’re suffering Hope – I’m sure things will improve , you are right at the beginning and will come to realise these meds are making you better

I guess you know about breathe in through your nose and slowly out through your mouth? I helps take the edge off it if you can focus on the slow breathing. Lavender oil is very relaxing too, sprinkle about the place or burn in an oil burner. I know these aren’t the perfect answer, but they may help you to relax a little.

I’m not sure re sesame either, maybe someone else will know.

We’re all here to support you however we can

Hi Hope, glad to hear you have started Tx. Really sorry to hear your anxiety is weighing heavily.
From my experience, I have suffered constant general anxiety for decades, add to that severe Panic attacks and PTSD. I only drink coffee in the morning as it makes me too agitated and can’t sleep if I drink later. I have only used valium as a last resort – insomnia, panic attacks, muscle spasms/sciatica; so not daily.
I use breathing, aromatherapy and other alternative therapies.

When I started Tx, about an hour after taking my Magic Pills I would feel ‘great’, energetic and less pain than normal, so very motivated and doing heaps. Not an anxious or agitated ‘energy’ as others have said, it’s more of a pleasant ‘high’ not a drug ‘rush high’.

The most remarkable thing for me is that my usual daily low grade anxiety and agitation that would normally build as the day went on until evenings when I would be very ‘stressed’ – actually disappeared! I thought ceasing alcohol would be a struggle as I tended to use this to ‘calm’ myself at night but no desire at all, with no high anxiety there’s no compulsion to self-medicate.

I really hope you give this a go and for your sake it would be awesome for you to experience a reduction/cessation of your high level anxiety.

Wishing you all the best Hope, hang in there

Hi Hope,

Good on you for taking the first step and starting tx. With the coffee I used to drink it but stopped a few years ago because I would get that anxious restless agitated feeling. That was usually from having one too many but I find it easier just not to bother with it at all. The feeling I felt from tx in the first week or so was different though, it was more of an elevated feeling. I think it was a natural high from feeling so excited about finally being on tx and possibly an effect of adjusting to being on the medication.

I found that the first 2-3 days were the only days I felt a bit foggy in the head, sort of cloudy stoned feeling. But it wasn’t a bad feeling and I’d read that for most people this had subsided after a few days so I tried not to worry about it and just wait it out. The next few days I felt much clearer and had the high, elevated, energetic feeling. After the first week I felt back to normal and since then I haven’t really noticed anything significant at all. The only thing worth mentioning is I feel more energetic in general, don’t have that constant sluggish, tired feeling I used to.

I don’t really think about the treatment much now, just take the tabs each night, go to work, run around doing all the normal things I have on. Just try to keep busy. It’s pretty much been that way through my whole treatment. I felt a little drop in mood after receiving a detected reading at 4 weeks, but by 6 weeks I received an undetected result so my mood lifted again after that. I think my mind has played more of a factor in how I’ve felt than the actual medicine and that would be the same for me whether I was on tx or not, depending on the things going on in my life. Now, with 8 pills to go, I just feel so free and keen to get involved with things I’d normally hold back from. I just want to get the most I can out of this life and I finally feel like I can do that.

I hope you start to pick up after the first few days, I’m confident that you will. Try to think of the positives and remind yourself that this is worth it, you have so much to benefit from following through with this tx! It is a very short tx and you will be out the other end in no time! Maybe once you have passed the initial part you could try to focus on distracting yourself and keeping busy with other things. Hang in there.

Jaz

Yes, It is hard to understand. I sailed through as well. I really was worried that I was just mixing some lactose from China. I just knew I should be feeling something unpleasant for it to actually be a powerful medicine,
M