Dear All,
3 months ago I suffered from severe serotonin syndrome (huge anxiety, heart palpitations, tremors etc.).
I described this in post:
Chronic Serotonin Toxicity? Need A Help!
I tried a lot of supplements and visited a lot of docs, but I'm still suffering from anxiety and high stress and need a help.
What I tried (and a lot of more):
- cyproheptadine (4-8mg) for 2 weeks
- tianeptine (37.5 mg) for 2 weeks
- niacinamide 500mg
- taurine
- pregnenolone 50mg
My actual symptoms:
- constipation
- chills
- anxiety
- feel of guilt
- low appetite
- still in "fight or flight"
- racing thoughts (bad memories, intrusive thoughts which create feel of guilt, etc.)
Summarizing, I'm still anxious, in the evening I feel better and I sleep well. The worst is morning and few first hours of a day. I feel chills, I'm constipated, when I think about/hear something stressful (which was not stressful for me before SS, but now I recall all stressful situations from my life) my heart is pounding immediately, like a small panic attack, it lasts a moment, then I'm trying to relax and it's better but I still feel anxious. I feel like I'm in some kind of trauma, regretting all of my bad moves in life.
My actual blood test from June:
FT4 - 1,18 ng/dl, Norms: 0,93 - 1,7
TSH - 1,440 µIU/ml, Norms: 0,27 - 4,2
Blood test from May:
Progesterone - 0.12 ng/ml
Estradiol - <5 pg/ml
Blood test from April:
FT4 - 1,57 ng/dl, Norms: 0,93 - 1,7
TSH - 3.5 µIU/ml, Norms: 0,27 - 4,2
FT3 - 3.23pg/ml, Norms: 2 - 4,4
My hormones are so low because I've been on birth control pills for two years and one month ago I decided to not taking them again, so now I'm one month birth control free. I don't know if this has any impact on my mood.
From 2 days I tried med like Cynoplus as I have hypo symptoms (constipation, cold feet, low metabolism, falling hair) but I think that I feel more anxious with it and my heart is pounding after meals - some type of adrenaline rush with high pulse. Looking for my lab test, my thyroid is improving, difference is 2.0 in TSH in 2 months, also I have quite high FT3 - maybe my thyroid is overstimulated?
Also I'm trying with pregnenolone 50mg from few days and progesterone cream (20mg) but do not see any improvement.
My huge problem is my low appetite (very low), I feel stressed and fearful, I have a wrong startle response (even "buh" makes me jump on a chair), it's hard for me to wake up in morning but I fall asleep easily. I don't even know if these are still symptoms of serotonin toxicity or something else.
What do you recommend for me? Is it possible that I messed up with my GABA through serotonin syndrome? How to treat my anxiety and my stress responses? How to be stress proof after this kind of trauma for organism (serotonin syndrome)?
3 months ago I suffered from severe serotonin syndrome (huge anxiety, heart palpitations, tremors etc.).
I described this in post:
Chronic Serotonin Toxicity? Need A Help!
I tried a lot of supplements and visited a lot of docs, but I'm still suffering from anxiety and high stress and need a help.
What I tried (and a lot of more):
- cyproheptadine (4-8mg) for 2 weeks
- tianeptine (37.5 mg) for 2 weeks
- niacinamide 500mg
- taurine
- pregnenolone 50mg
My actual symptoms:
- constipation
- chills
- anxiety
- feel of guilt
- low appetite
- still in "fight or flight"
- racing thoughts (bad memories, intrusive thoughts which create feel of guilt, etc.)
Summarizing, I'm still anxious, in the evening I feel better and I sleep well. The worst is morning and few first hours of a day. I feel chills, I'm constipated, when I think about/hear something stressful (which was not stressful for me before SS, but now I recall all stressful situations from my life) my heart is pounding immediately, like a small panic attack, it lasts a moment, then I'm trying to relax and it's better but I still feel anxious. I feel like I'm in some kind of trauma, regretting all of my bad moves in life.
My actual blood test from June:
FT4 - 1,18 ng/dl, Norms: 0,93 - 1,7
TSH - 1,440 µIU/ml, Norms: 0,27 - 4,2
Blood test from May:
Progesterone - 0.12 ng/ml
Estradiol - <5 pg/ml
Blood test from April:
FT4 - 1,57 ng/dl, Norms: 0,93 - 1,7
TSH - 3.5 µIU/ml, Norms: 0,27 - 4,2
FT3 - 3.23pg/ml, Norms: 2 - 4,4
My hormones are so low because I've been on birth control pills for two years and one month ago I decided to not taking them again, so now I'm one month birth control free. I don't know if this has any impact on my mood.
From 2 days I tried med like Cynoplus as I have hypo symptoms (constipation, cold feet, low metabolism, falling hair) but I think that I feel more anxious with it and my heart is pounding after meals - some type of adrenaline rush with high pulse. Looking for my lab test, my thyroid is improving, difference is 2.0 in TSH in 2 months, also I have quite high FT3 - maybe my thyroid is overstimulated?
Also I'm trying with pregnenolone 50mg from few days and progesterone cream (20mg) but do not see any improvement.
My huge problem is my low appetite (very low), I feel stressed and fearful, I have a wrong startle response (even "buh" makes me jump on a chair), it's hard for me to wake up in morning but I fall asleep easily. I don't even know if these are still symptoms of serotonin toxicity or something else.
What do you recommend for me? Is it possible that I messed up with my GABA through serotonin syndrome? How to treat my anxiety and my stress responses? How to be stress proof after this kind of trauma for organism (serotonin syndrome)?