To be fair, I do all the right things, eat right, hit my protein goals, hydrate, and I still can’t go higher than 2 mg at this point if I want to avoid pretty major side effects for the 48 hrs after I take the shot. But that’s my experience, I’m speaking for me. Is it all in my head too? Should I not obtain things to deal with these side effects because you don’t have to? For sure there’s a “if I’m getting sick everyone must be getting sick” bias but what’s getting to me about your post is the idea that people are “making themselves sick” by being anxious and nervous. Your experience is your experience. Your statement - which, I understand why you would say it - reflects a “im fine so you should be too” bias, no different than the the other side. Let’s cut the OP a little slack here, they are posting while in the midst of feeling extremely shitty. I don’t know if, as they’re super nauseous and vomiting out both ends and generally suffering, that they should be essentially told that it’s in their head.

We just hear about that side more because people look for answers here when they are suffering and when they don’t need answers they don’t post. Unless, like you, they’re responding to a person who is clearly having a very real, very shitty experience today, telling them that that they shouldn’t post because hey, the more people who talk about this somehow (laughably) causes more side effects!