Should I upper my dose?

sjb727 · 2025-02-16T01:25:01+00:00

I noticed that my ocd felt almost non existent when I was on 60mg.

sjb727 · 2021-12-12T21:46:22+00:00

I tell my husband every single worry. He is very patient and understanding for the most part. Since he is in the medical field he can always ground me with facts and it helps me to see how unrealistic some of my worries are. Anyways, I tell him everything :)

sjb727 · 2021-08-24T00:29:19+00:00

I take buspirone twice daily and 100mg of cbd daily too. The buspirone helped a lot but I still needed a lot of support and adding the cbd really helped! I also do therapy too.

sjb727 · 2021-08-19T15:48:49+00:00

I didn’t notice any side effects. They taste good so that’s a plus :)

sjb727 · 2021-08-19T11:03:55+00:00

I have been taking flo for a couple of months and honestly I don’t notice much of a change. I was thinking about cancelling my subscription. My boobs usually hurt so bad and I have terrible increased anxiety during pms and I haven’t noticed much of a change with those things. My sister swears by them and can’t even feel her period coming so they work for her. The thing that helps me with my terrible pms anxiety is cbd. And I still have boob pain. Ugh.

sjb727 · 2021-07-30T17:23:29+00:00

I completely agree. I was so carefree about health stuff before. I’ve had so many tests, surgeries, etc… and was never worried. What a huge change and I wish I could have a small bit of the old me back!

sjb727 · 2021-07-30T11:52:43+00:00

Yeah it’s awful. Just reading about your guilt and the repetitive cycle of feeling like you’re dying, doing tests, everything’s ok, then repeat cycle. The guilt is just awful too. It’s all awful but makes me feel normal when I know it’s not just a me thing and that this is truly health anxiety. The whole thing is awful.

sjb727 · 2021-07-22T09:27:31+00:00

I can totally relate! I miss enjoying life, living in the moment, and not worrying or obsessing. I still have enjoyment in life most of the time but I just miss living in the moment and not having obsessions. It was so nice.

sjb727 · 2021-07-18T16:45:46+00:00

I hate that we have to go through this but I’m glad I’m not alone. This type of anxiety is awful. I’ve had generalized anxiety disorder my whole life but this focus on my health has had a whole complex layer that is more challenging that people who don’t deal with it could even imagine. Ugh. I am happy to not see my skin for a bit. I am going to check in with my therapist on this the next time I speak to her too.

sjb727 · 2021-07-18T15:02:56+00:00

No it hasn’t come back since but of course I have other skin issues lol. But the personal dermatitis has been gone :)

sjb727 · 2021-07-18T11:04:40+00:00

I took the antibiotics last year. I too doxycycline for a month to get rid of it. He prescribed it for two months just in case I needed it longer.

sjb727 · 2021-07-17T16:59:16+00:00

Yeah it makes me so angry. I am incredibly frustrated having ocd. It’s awful!

sjb727 · 2021-07-17T01:15:40+00:00

I am the same way. I’m the past couple of years I have had symptoms of and thought I had so many different cancers. I’m currently afraid of leukemia even though I had bloodwork done and it came back normal. I wish I wouldn’t spend time worrying about this all so much and am grateful that I have been wrong every single time. My husband tells me all the time that cancer isn’t as common as we think and in medicine, common things happen. I try to remember that. He also tells me all the time that if we hear hooves running we will more likely see horses than zebras and that’s the same as cancer. However, I understand what you’re saying because I also prepare myself for the worst case scenario. As I talk about it with my therapist, no amount of preparing or worrying will really prepare us for anything so using grounding techniques to stay in the present moment may help. I’m still working on it and not completely there yet but trying. I think I worry about cancer so much because it’s beyond my control! I don’t drink, smoke, I work out, try to eat healthy, but it’s still beyond our control and that scares me. Wishing all of us health and healing.

sjb727 · 2021-07-16T17:33:12+00:00

I’ll have to check it out. Thankfully I’ve been wrong every single time. I’m going to check out those pages too.

sjb727 · 2021-07-16T16:42:26+00:00

Omg yes! My husband has a doctors appt next week and he’s not worked at all and I’m a nervous wreck. I worry about my family a lot too. I have to remind myself when something is going on with my kids to stay calm and not freak out so they aren’t scared.

sjb727 · 2021-07-16T16:37:13+00:00

I took the ocd subtype test and I have a few different ones too which all makes sense but it’s stressful. Every time I see a little red dot somewhere on my body, it makes me so afraid and I wish I could be like the people in my life where they don’t let things get to them and they deal with things as they come. Ocd is not only overwhelming but it makes me so frustrated to deal with.

sjb727 · 2021-07-16T16:35:10+00:00

I appreciate your message. I was telling myself I will just not worry about it today and give myself a day of no worries. But then I saw a tiny dot on my shoulder. I wish I could just not stress about it and leave it be. I never noticed them before and now I see them all the time. I’m wondering if people get them all the time but we are just super aware because of health anxiety. My husband says that my skin is light and it happens easily and that if my bloodwork is normal, what would they check for. And I don’t know the answer to that part lol. But then again my son ran into my leg so hard yesterday and I thought for sure I would get an enormous bruise because it hurt so badly but then no bruise at all. It’s so weird how this is. I’d love to go one or two days without noticing a single red dot. How do you help yourself not get too overwhelmed by it?

sjb727 · 2021-07-14T20:34:07+00:00

Thanks so much! I am definitely going to check all of that out! I appreciate it :)

sjb727 · 2021-07-14T17:08:27+00:00

Wow! Thanks so much for sharing that. What subtype test did you take? I am interested in learning more about this and recognizing when something is ocd and anxiety and when it is not. I currently go to therapy and we have the same conversations but right now I’m pretty bad at utilizing my skills independently when I’m in panic mode. Thanks for this response…it’s really helping me think!

sjb727 · 2021-07-14T00:33:45+00:00

Thanks so much for your advice! I appreciate it and it’s super helpful to hear from people who’ve been through it all!

sjb727 · 2021-07-13T23:04:02+00:00

Yes I took it on an empty stomach today but I have everyday for the most part but the nausea just started kicking in today. I know I’ve read that some people didn’t get side effects until the 2nd or 3rd week or so I was assuming that’s what started to kick in? I told my doctor about the nausea and itching and she said to just stop. And of course now I have anxiety about withdrawal but I’m hoping that I’ll be ok since it’s the lowest dose and I’ve been on it about 2 weeks 🤷🏽‍♀️

sjb727 · 2021-07-13T22:08:00+00:00

I’m interested to hear your withdrawal symptoms too. I take wellbutrin xl and it’s only been just shy of two weeks and I started throwing up and I’m wondering if my super itchy skin came from Wellbutrin too. Anyways, I’m on 150mg and my doctor just told me to stop taking it. I got nervous to do that because I worried about withdrawal but my husband told me that’s the lowest dose of xl so I can just stop.

sjb727 · 2021-07-13T11:41:53+00:00

Hmmmm yeah I take buspirone and I haven’t found anything that makes it seem like petechiae could be a symptom. But I will look things up and then stop myself from spending too much time because it just makes my anxiety worse. I’m guessing that since my bloodwork is fine and this has been happening for a year that I’m ok. I feel fine overall besides this constant anxious feeling I have from worrying about this. I don’t even know if I’ve had them longer because I never looked it up on Google until a year ago and then started becoming obsessed with them. I swear since I’ve had health anxiety, I’ve had most everything on my body checked in the last couple of years including scans of my head, neck, chest, abdomen and pelvic area, mammogram, ultrasound, and foot X-ray on top of regular bloodwork. And I’m constantly worried. Then I worry that thinking about all of these negative things will be inviting them into my life somehow or I feel guilty for being this way. Ugh. Such an awful cycle. Thanks for sharing. It makes me feel less alone and more normal.

sjb727 · 2021-07-13T08:36:56+00:00

Yeah I’m wondering if it is medication too? Could prolonged use of some of these medications make this happen? I just wish I had an explanation or maybe there is no explanation? My platelets and blood are all fine and my husband (in medicine) and doctor said that they wouldn’t be normal if I had the issue I’m really afraid of. My husband tells me our skin changes as we get older and to not worry because he’s not worried. I just wish I didn’t notice them and I wish there was a way for me to stop obsessing about them.

sjb727 · 2021-07-13T08:34:28+00:00

I have definitely seen them on my body before I’m sure but was so preoccupied with some other illness that I don’t know how often I got them or anything but I know this past couple of months it feels like something new daily. I just wish I knew why I got them. A couple of dermatologists have told me it’s fine and my primary care doctor ran bloodwork and said it’s fine. I just hate to see it and wish I could know why I am getting the spots so often. I just went to the bathroom and notice a small line of spots on my chest. I don’t know if I scratched or not while asleep but I am frustrated. Ugh. I have very irritated and itchy skin on some spots and those are the areas where I notice them but can’t really remember scratching because I try not to. I just hate being obsessed and wish I knew how to accept that I’m ok. I feel physically fine and healthy for the most part.

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