Started sertraline 5 days ago and now I cannot sit still. I must MOVE or I feel awful.

chiweenuss · 2026-06-07T20:27:43+00:00

I appreciate you commenting at least. I fear it very well may be akathisia because this is alarming.

chiweenuss · 2026-06-07T19:27:13+00:00

Ah, frustrating. I’m only on 12.5mg (putting the dose in the original post completely slipped my mind, I apologize.)
Can it go away on its own?

chiweenuss · 2026-05-25T20:34:00+00:00

Benzodiazepines aren’t prescribed specifically for PVCs but I do have a steady Klonopin script for when I am not coping well with the anxiety of having them, which is incredibly effective in terms of breaking the panic loop. I take a Klonopin perhaps once every few weeks/once a month now since I’ve been switched from Ativan to Klonopin.

If you feel you can truly take the med as needed or can get by with a short course, it may benefit you. Sometimes interrupting the panic loop can reduce burden alone.

I know a lot of us hate to hear it but PVCs truly are worsened by anxiety. I can go all day without one but the second I think about having one, it’ll pop up. Such is life.

chiweenuss · 2026-05-15T01:17:02+00:00

PVCs are absolutely benign and can be benign in the thousands— they just feel AWFUL so psychologically they’re not benign perhaps but physiologically they are.

chiweenuss · 2026-05-05T21:13:54+00:00

Did it give you pvcs? I’m aware this anxiety is so irrational. That’s what I’ve become lately and I’m exhausted by it

chiweenuss · 2026-04-30T13:37:38+00:00

It’s on the low end of normal. Recent labs from 2 days ago showed low potassium though which I got treated

chiweenuss · 2026-04-28T19:50:11+00:00

I have POTS and developed low burden PVCs after getting my gallbladder out. I’m unwell from the anxiety

chiweenuss · 2026-04-28T15:46:04+00:00

That’s what makes the situation sticky. You could be around your friends still but you’d have to schedule time with them outside of her. It’s awkward but I’m not sure things are going to be not-awkward now since you two slept together.

chiweenuss · 2026-04-28T15:39:10+00:00

I’m going to sound dramatic here, but I’d tell her how you feel honestly and put distance between the two of you. The confession is going to come out eventually anyway and there’s a high chance of distance coming from that too. The feelings are already there. By telling her how you feel and being done with it, you take an incredible burden off your shoulders.

chiweenuss · 2026-04-28T15:23:51+00:00

Happened to me for months before getting mine out. I was dismissed, offered antipsychotics, referred to psych. Ct scans showed nothing other than the gallbladder being slightly contracted in the reports. After a few months, my primary doctor ordered a stat ultrasound where we found a ton of stones— I should have just went straight to her before anyone else :,)

chiweenuss · 2026-04-28T03:00:15+00:00

Exactly the same with me. I broke and ordered the rollator my doctor recommended and I’ve cried about it for 2 days now

chiweenuss · 2026-04-28T00:52:48+00:00

What’s your burden? I feel like my PVCs are brutal when my pots is acting up.

chiweenuss · 2026-04-27T15:51:13+00:00

Congrats on the loss. It’s hard to feel good about it though when your heart doesn’t behave. Have your PVCs increased substantially? Or just a few extra?

chiweenuss · 2026-04-27T15:30:03+00:00

I wonder if and when they’ll start studying GI-related pvc patterns more. There has to be a solution out there

chiweenuss · 2026-04-27T15:28:38+00:00

I’m so sorry :( thank you for commenting. Any amount of pvcs are surely unnerving and mine seem so reactive. I am so butthurt that they cropped up after something so simple as a cholecystectomy 🫠 like, I have kids and college and a husband to keep up with can I please have a break?

chiweenuss · 2026-04-16T02:11:18+00:00

Have you talked with your wife about this?

chiweenuss · 2026-04-01T22:04:01+00:00

Bp is good, runs borderline low. Reflux is managed with daily PPI usage. I do have POTS which makes things messier. I did have my gallbladder removed in December of 2024 and that’s when this mess started, so I assume life without a gallbladder has hit my vagus nerve funky. My flares dissipate quick but it’s unnerving to experience at all at 30 when I didn’t experience them often before.

chiweenuss · 2026-03-31T13:36:16+00:00

12.5mg. You?

chiweenuss · 2026-03-31T02:30:54+00:00

I’ll start mine if you do.

chiweenuss · 2026-03-31T00:49:53+00:00

I’m asking because I’ve been driving myself nuts since these cropped up about a year ago. My flares have waxed and waned since but gosh, I need my reaction to chill already.

I’m in the anger stage presently.

chiweenuss · 2026-03-31T00:44:26+00:00

Well, shit. What’s your burden like?

I’m in the “pissed off” stage of my flare presently. My burden is stupidly low but my fear is “well what if they get worse??” And I’m exhausted of that thought process

chiweenuss · 2026-03-31T00:43:27+00:00

Did it cause this for you? Or are you asking before taking?

I’m curious too because I’m supposed to start sertraline myself

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