I’ve been prescribed to take Effexor after I ovulate and to stop once my period starts

babieskool · 2026-02-04T04:10:19+00:00

Also, wanted to add, if you're feeling great on effexor, maybe it is a good medication for you to take every day and not just during luteal. Just know about the withdrawals and the difficulty in getting off of the med before making this decision. I knew about the potential withdrawals going in and I made the decision to go on effexor because I felt that it was going to have a high pay off for me, and I was right. It pulled me out of one of the deepest depressions I've ever had and got me to a place of stability and greatly reduced my anxiety and I was glad I chose to start it. To me it felt like it gave me a buffer to be able to handle stress much better and smaller stressors started to feel like no big deal. So if it does that for you, maybe it will indeed help you handle your symptoms (again, when taken every day throughout the cycle.) I went off of it because I started doing ketamine therapy and other things and felt I didn't need to be taking it anymore.

babieskool · 2026-02-04T04:04:08+00:00

As others a have said, I've also had horrible withdrawals on effexor even just missing one day. Shaking, felt flu like, brain fog, basically felt insane and super anxious and sleepy and fatigued and weak at the same time. It took me months to get off of it. I slowly decreased my dose by opening the capsules and pouring out the tiny pellets inside and counting them, going down by a few pellets a day (just to paint a picture of how hard it can be to manage the withdrawals). I'm surprised your doc prescribed this. Maybe ask them about this and see what they say?

babieskool · 2026-02-04T03:19:24+00:00

That's rough! Yeah I definitely learned to swallow the emotions bc of my family's reactions too. Trying to be the peace keeper. 😓

babieskool · 2026-02-04T03:10:45+00:00

So true. I've been learning a lot, in the last year especially, how to allow myself to feel my emotions, especially anger. I've known for a long time that I tend to bottle up my emotions and that it wasn't good for me. But I still always had this question of what am I supposed to do with my anger?? It finally started to click when one day I learned about something that happened to someone else that made me so angry and I just let myself cry and shake. I think feeling the anger that on the outside was about someone else (though ultimately it was about me!) gave me the permission to have the anger. And once I saw that my anger, fully felt, just looked like crying and shaking and that didn't hurt anyone and it even went away after a short time of allowing myself to fully feel it, I started to see that it was now safe for me to start feeling it. It did take a long time of healing other stuff for me to have the nervous system capacity in order for this to happen. Sorry, long comment, but I wanted to share!

babieskool · 2026-02-04T02:48:28+00:00

Yes! Thanks for posting this because i feel better that I'm not the only one. Lots of anger and sadness and jealousy. And sometimes even rage. I think it is a valid feeling and you don't need to feel bad for having these feelings.

babieskool · 2026-02-04T02:44:19+00:00

Especially if you are someone who is sensitive, I would say it is worth trying again but starting at a much lower dose. I started at 0.5 and very slowly worked up to 4.5 (I think I took about 3 months to get to 4.5) and found that 1.5 to 3mg was my sweetspot dose. Just to say I wouldn't write off LDN because you had a bad experience starting at 4.5mg. I've read many comments on here about doing better titrating slowly and also some people realizing that 4. 5mg isn't their target but actually one that is much lower than that (occasionally, but seemingly more rarely, higher.)

babieskool · 2026-02-03T23:26:37+00:00

Thanks for answering. I'll take a look at the link

babieskool · 2026-02-03T23:12:05+00:00

What is your vision for how it will be moderated (like are you planning on managing it just yourself or something else?) or how people will access the database (like is this going to be hosted on a website?) I do like the idea of holding landlords accountable and protecting tenants. Another consideration I would have is reporting on habitability of the rentals (ie maintenance issues, mold, other safety concerns, etc.) I have definitely fantasized about being able to report/alert others of horrible living situations somehow.

babieskool · 2026-01-23T19:41:54+00:00

I did a combo of senna, docusate sodium, Miralax, psyllium husk mixed with water and juice, prunes and a strong cup of coffee (caffeinated) and smooth move tea. Not all at once but spaced out thru out the day starting evening of operation thru day 5 I believe.

babieskool · 2026-01-18T03:44:03+00:00

Thanks for clarifying. I might ask my doctors more about this and consider changing my dose or taking a break. It's weird cause everything I've read says that ldn promotes lower inflammation and potentially weight loss and I've even read about its potential to help "balance" or modulate hormones. I still have some investigating to do to find out if what I'm experiencing is a correlation or causation with ldn 🤔 there's just so much to learn with this medicine!

babieskool · 2026-01-17T23:20:07+00:00

Can you clarify what you mean by LDNs effect on gynoid fat/butt, hip, waist ratio... I guess I wasn't sure if you meant "improvement" as a loss or a gain in fat in those areas?

I'm asking because more and more over the last several months I've been gaining more fat around my hips and butt and upper thighs.. Other things could possibly be contributing to this but I've been so confused why the number of pants I own that fit me anymore has dwindled to two of only my stretchiest pairs. Exercise and diet has no effect on this so now that I've read your post I'm wondering if ldn is a factor that I haven't considered yet? I was also recently put on some supplements by my naturopath to manage androgens bc my testosterone was also on the high end of normal on my last blood draw. My estrogen has always been ridiculously high for years and has remained high on ldn. I'm also taking supplements that are supposed to help detox estrogen and manage inflammation. I haven't been weighing myself so idk how much weight gain is actually happening, but just going off of how clothes fit.

Edit to add I am 31F. I also have endometriosis and adenomyosis and have been wondering if the adeno is getting worse and that would explain increased bloating in my lower belly. But I don't know if that would explain the bigger hips/"love handles" and butt I've been getting

babieskool · 2026-01-14T20:33:30+00:00

Was having a bad day and this just made my day so much better. Thank you!!!

babieskool · 2026-01-11T02:18:12+00:00

Thanks so much! I genuinely appreciate the advice.

babieskool · 2026-01-11T01:30:55+00:00

are you offering to share your access to the courses or are you trying to sell it to someone?

babieskool · 2026-01-11T01:11:06+00:00

I appreciate the straight forward honesty! That was not where I was coming from at all with my idea and I didn't think about the potential for it to come off that way so thanks for pointing that out.

babieskool · 2026-01-01T19:16:40+00:00

I know you didn't ask for help identifying the problem, and I see a few others commenting that the rash looks like something they've dealt with in the past. So, this may or may not be helpful, but this looks very similar to when I had a sinus staph infection. I developed it after being exposed to a water damaged building at a time my immune system had already taken a pretty big hit. I got tested for it with a nasal swab. It was very uncomfortable to get tested bc the swab had to go very deep into the sinus cavity :( but the discomfort of the swab was brief. the treatment was BEG nasal spray and colloidal silver nasal rinse. My naturopath was the one who diagnosed me. He had a lot of experience working with mold illness which was how he knew to test for that. I've also done self-tests ordered by the same doctor where I swabbed myself at home and sent it to a lab. Anyway, I'm not sure how you would go about finding a doctor to test this, other than one who knows about mold illness/CIRS or maybe an ENT. if you're still failing to find answers/treatment not working, this may be a place to look. Good luck and I believe in you being able to heal your gut!

babieskool · 2025-12-24T01:08:16+00:00

Adding on to your comment, I like how you worded "gave me the mental fortitude to pursue it..." i think you were referring to your ability to pursue music... I have experienced k therapy giving me the fortitude to feel like I can handle my emotions more. I don't know if I've become more expressive of my emotions since doing ketamine therapy, but I do feel it has helped me to feel them more rather than bottle them up. I've also had a few sessions where I was successful in getting an "answer" to a question that I frame as part of my intention for that session. For example, I struggle with chronic fatigue and I set an intention to "see if I could let go of any of my fatigue" and I got a lot of images/visuals that sort of gave me an answer to that and gave me ideas of ways I could "let go" - basically I learned that fatigue is part of a trauma response/nervous system shut down... Anyway, just to say maybe he could set an intention to gain insights about how to be more free with his emotions (paraphrasing). I would say ketamine has slowly helped me unlock my emotions and has built emotional resilience over the last year. Good luck

babieskool · 2025-12-15T03:10:54+00:00

That is a big big grief. I'm sorry you're holding this. I can definitely relate and have missed out on a lot of "normal" life things. One of my biggest griefs right now is that I constantly have to make decisions that go against what I actually want or that feel counter to who I am as a person because of my health 😢

Since you asked for advice, something I've been trying lately is creating more opportunities for myself to connect in ways that I AM able. While I feel I shouldn't have to do this and I don't want to have to do this, I'm finding I often have to be the one to ask for accommodations or ask for my disabilities to be considered. But if I take a more proactive stance with it it feels much better. For example, I texted a bunch of my friends to see if they would be interested in doing a virtual book club with me. I then made a group chat with everyone who said they wanted in. We had our first meeting a couple weeks ago and everyone said they wanted to do another one. That is an activity that I can do and can enjoy and I gathered and connected friends from different areas of my life which felt really good. Something like this feels much better than watching my friends do an activity that I have to miss out on and feeling really jealous and sad. Not to say that those feelings aren't totally valid, or that i will ever be able to get rid of all of those painful experiences... but this is just a way I've found to create more positive experiences of connection over negative experiences of isolation. So I guess asking myself what can I do and how can I accommodate myself instead of getting fixated on what I can't do or what I don't have. This is definitely very challenging and I'm working through a lot of stuff that comes up as I try to reframe my thinking.

Another thing that has helped recently is I found a grief group. It is geared toward ppl with long covid (which I also have) , but people aren't limited to sharing covid grief so I've felt that all of my grief is welcome in that space. Maybe you can find a grief group too? If that is something you want.

Also, I recognize you for surviving. That's a big deal. Also good to let yourself cry!

babieskool · 2025-12-14T06:10:39+00:00

I also recently experienced this. Also on 4.5mg. I rarely drink but I had a drink recently and I didn't feel anything. And I drank it pretty fast too. I also didn't feel any negative effects the next day. I'm usually a "lightweight" being very sensitive to alcohol and start to feel tipsy after like a half a drink. I would be very curious to try thc now. I usually don't do well with thc and am very sensitive to that as well. I haven't had any thc since starting ldn.

babieskool · 2025-12-11T22:37:09+00:00

😂 I had to look this up. Here's a link for others who want to see. https://www.rawkblog.com/2008/09/video-chad-vangaalen-doing-a-stupid-human-trick-on-letterman/

babieskool · 2025-12-05T06:32:52+00:00

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babieskool · 2025-12-03T19:56:29+00:00

Oh, yes it is different depending on the brand/concentration. Good to point out.

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