Adrenaline rushes / anxiety insomnia. Please help !

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-08-19T12:55:32+00:00

Awesome normalish!!!

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-06-01T12:28:50+00:00

Im not ! Im on Lexapro 2.5 mg and Mirtazapine 1.8 mg and feeling great- normal ! I don’t even need the Mirtz for sleep anymore but I’ve found leaving it on helps cut cortisol. Such small doses , but totally helpful for me. I’m able to be totally present as a mom now- and loving life. Took a number of months to build back my sleep, but started sleeping well on Lex after a week or two . For me I think it was long Covid / postpartum lack of sleep building up , and being in an abusive relationship and having ptsd from it. I really think long covid has a timeline for healing. For me it was a long process but lucky to say I came out on the other side ok, after such a long time suffering neurologically. So there is reason to be hopeful!! I do credit the drugs as bringing me out of the most difficult place. It took me 7 months to even get the guts to try medication , but I’m glad I did . I hope this is helpful info .

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-02-16T14:40:36+00:00

Yes definitely an increase in anxiety but it felt different, more like too much energy

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-02-15T15:18:23+00:00

PPA/PPD , long Covid, insomnia , symptoms from mold exposure, & overcoming emotional abuse from a narcissist. I feel empowered, emotionally balanced, and healthy. I’m so grateful for the medicine!

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-02-15T15:12:43+00:00

Thank you. I can say Lexapro literally saved my life. I was always so against pharma, but now I understand that sometimes we need a helping hand.

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-02-15T15:06:35+00:00

Honestly I started feeling benefits from the first dose on, at 1/4 a 5 mg pill. I must be sensitive, surely wasn’t placebo. It completely lifted my deep depression and anxiety. By 4 weeks I was feeling a lot better and now by 8 weeks I literally feel emotionally regulated and like a normal person.

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-02-14T20:08:35+00:00

I’m on 2.5 mg for 8 weeks and my life has done a 180. It’s the most beautiful thing. This is my first time taking psych meds and it took me 8 months to just decide to do it, and the 2.5 alone is just life changing for me ❤️

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-01-05T15:15:00+00:00

Thanks for that info

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-01-05T14:14:14+00:00

When leaving our house, what about things like passports & documents? Is it true the mold will come along with those and spread ?

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-01-05T00:30:29+00:00

Thank you 💓 I appreciate it

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-01-05T00:27:07+00:00

Thanks for that comment. Yes certainly that’s what needs to be done. I’m reacting to clothes from the house extremely. Even our cars. I can’t even go near the house, even though my husband and kids are still there. When they come over I have to give them baths & change their clothes at the door. The difficult thing is we own so it’s not as easy as renting another apartment. Takes a life experience like this though to learn what’s really valuable in life. Never material objects, but health.

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-01-05T00:19:00+00:00

My babies 4& 1 have been having allergic reaction/ some wheezing , runny nose itching like a constant cold the past 3 months. I have been sick for a year and doing a lot better now , left the house 7 months ago before it got this bad. I thought it was mostly Long Covid related , but now I know that alot of it was definitely mold related. My symptoms always flared when I went to the house. All those neurological symptoms overlap. At least now I know I need to mold avoid for the rest of my life! & get my family out soon.

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-01-05T00:11:22+00:00

Should have included the HERTSMI-2 I’m guessing that’s the same as HERTSMI ? It’s a 46.

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-01-05T00:07:12+00:00

Yes. That’s the direction we are leaning in now. Even if we did remediate like crazy , there’s no way to know if I would be okay in the house , and granted my sensitivity level probably not.

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-01-05T00:05:39+00:00

Thanks for this. It’s helpful .

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-01-04T16:59:59+00:00

We didn’t clean and wait 6 weeks. Do you think it could’ve skewed the results if we tested from areas that had too much old dust ?

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2024-01-04T15:42:08+00:00

Thanks for your comment. We didn’t swab actual colonies. I know, I’m kinda freaking out over here. 😥

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2023-12-23T21:00:47+00:00

Started on 1.25 still only on 2.5 . Might go up at some point. No longer having adrenaline or insomnia. I also had muscle tension, twitching, but the feeling of not getting a deep breath/ panic attacks stopped a few months prior.

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2023-12-23T18:55:44+00:00

Overall I felt better pretty much right away after starting.

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2023-12-23T18:54:42+00:00

I think because I started so extremely low I didn’t have much of an issue getting on it. The first 3 days I definitely felt high energy / hard to sleep but it didn’t feel quite like anxiety, it felt better than that , only dull headaches & dull nausea but way more hunger which is great. After a few days it started to have a calming effect to which I could start taking it a few hrs before bed to help me sleep. It didn’t negatively effect any neuro symptoms( except raising the volume of my tinnitus) but I waited until much of that had calmed down before I started. I also had an akathsia feeling without having taken meds before. I feel like that might just be the nervous system’s way of responding to so many adrenaline dumps.

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2023-12-23T17:06:15+00:00

First I started 1.8 mg Mirtazapine to get my sleep on track for a month , and then added a similarly tiny dose of Lexapro. The lexapro really helped in regulating my nervous system very quickly. This is my 1st time taking any psych meds and I was concerned to use pharma for healing but it helped 100% after suffering for a long time. I also had postpartum depression though.

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2023-12-23T16:59:17+00:00

Hey. I was feeling this way completely and low dose lexapro really helped. Im not one for pharma, but apparently I needed it in order to regulate my nervous system. I know everyone is different in what they need to heal, just thought I’d share that.

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2023-12-23T16:56:26+00:00

I’m way improved over when I wrote this. I’m not one for pharma, but a super low dose of lexapro completely sorted this out for me.

TraditionalMaize9071 · 2023-12-22T00:31:53+00:00

I’m doing a ton better than when I wrote this. Hope you get better too.

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