[leomama]

And emotional stress on top of the PTSD. Was also diagnose with dizziness and giddiness. Getting my labs a month early, including thyroid. What the heck is going on?!?
On 300mg Lamictal and ortho trycylen lo . Can't sleep but 3 hours without seroquel . Have a whole list of physical symptoms. Former therapist told me to bring my suds down. Meeting new therapist July 9. Daughter is recovering from throat surgery. Have a probate deposition mid July.
I'm going out of my mind.
I'm going through a therapeutic separation with my partner .
I may be exhausted.
Seeing my nurse practitioner next Tuesday on an urgent visit .
Was told not to adjust my medication without my NP by my pharmacist .
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Became self employed this week, got two jobs in one week.
Daughter is going back to work tomorrow afternoon.
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I prayed to be healed from my PTSD and this happened .
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I think I need to lower my Lamictal but I do not know....
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Wow!

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[Skeezyks]

leomama !

[88Butterfly88]

I have dizziness as a side effect of medication. I'm on a lot of meds though.

[Open Eyes]

The dizzyness can come from not only not eating right, not getting enough sleep, but because you are under a lot of stress and are probably hyperventilating too. Struggling with anxiety most definitely can reek havoc. One can be experiencing all the negative symptoms from an anxiety attack and yet their pulse and heartrate reads normal.

[leomama]

Originally Posted by 88Butterfly88

I have dizziness as a side effect of medication. I'm on a lot of meds though.

How many? I'm just in Lamictal, birth control and seroquel as needed for sleep

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[leomama]

Originally Posted by Open Eyes

The dizzyness can come from not only not eating right, not getting enough sleep, but because you are under a lot of stress and are probably hyperventilating too. Struggling with anxiety most definitely can reek havoc. One can be experiencing all the negative symptoms from an anxiety attack and yet their pulse and heartrate reads normal.

Thank you my daughter is cooking for me right now .

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[88Butterfly88]

Originally Posted by leomama

How many? I'm just in Lamictal, birth control and seroquel as needed for sleep

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7 total, 5 from psychiatrist and 2 from endocrinologist.

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[Open Eyes]

It's not unusual to feel exhausted when struggling with PTSD. It's a challenge for an individual to gain on their ability to slowly gain on reducing how quickly they can go into hyper-aware/hypervigilance where they begin producing a lot of cortisol in the ready for flight/fight. This is also one of the reasons that getting a good night's sleep can be such a challenge. When a person sleeps their brain processes and also cleans out toxins, the body also gains restoratively when someone sleeps. When trauma is involved it can cause night terrors as the brain is trying to figure out how to file it away. That can trigger someone into feeling the event/trauma all over again which can wake them up and trigger them to feel afraid, disoriented, and experiencing an anxiety attack which makes it very hard to go back to sleep.

What people who don't know what it's like to experience PTSD don't realize is that when a person experiences a trigger they get VERY tired as if they just ran a marathon. This is another reason you can feel warn out and dizzy.

[leomama]

Originally Posted by Open Eyes

It's not unusual to feel exhausted when struggling with PTSD. It's a challenge for an individual to gain on their ability to slowly gain on reducing how quickly they can go into hyper-aware/hypervigilance where they begin producing a lot of cortisol in the ready for flight/fight. This is also one of the reasons that getting a good night's sleep can be such a challenge. When a person sleeps their brain processes and also cleans out toxins, the body also gains restoratively when someone sleeps. When trauma is involved it can cause night terrors as the brain is trying to figure out how to file it away. That can trigger someone into feeling the event/trauma all over again which can wake them up and trigger them to feel afraid, disoriented, and experiencing an anxiety attack which makes it very hard to go back to sleep.

What people who don't know what it's like to experience PTSD don't realize is that when a person experiences a trigger they get VERY tired as if they just ran a marathon. This is another reason you can feel warn out and dizzy.

Yes!
I'm having an interaction between my mood stabilizer and my birth control and I am under a lot of stress. I have a drug for my insomnia so I'm going to take it every night until I see my NP on Tuesday morning.
Thank you so much for your reply!

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[Open Eyes]

Birth control in and of itself can change the body chemistry enough to create emotional and psychological issues. Changing the body's normal way of having a balance of estrogen can create issues.

I struggled with endometriosis, it got so bad I had to have lazer surgery. I was given an "implant" in my arm of Lupron that stopped me from having my mentral cycle so I would heal. That resulted in depleting my body completely of estrogen to which I endured such a disabling depression that I could not even get out of bed. I was NOT told this was due to the Lupron, but, that from testing my blood it was recognized that my estrogen levels were completely depleted and that I had to take estrogen pills and was also given Zoloft.
It took a while, but gradually I began to get out of bed, spent many days just sitting on the sofa, gradually the cloud was lifting to where I eventually gained myself slowly back again.

It would be several years before I would finally get to know it was the Lupron that caused this to take place, unfortunately, because I was not told that I lived in fear of how I may lapse into a major depressive state. Unfortunately, even though my gynocologist knew, he did not tell me because even though this effect was understood about the Lupron, it doesn't come out right away.

It is very, very important to make sure your estrogen levels are "healthy". It is also important to understand how birth control can change the levels of estrogen to where it is VERY unhealthy.

[leomama]

Hi. It's not the birth control. I take that for dermatology. I'm abstinent.

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[Michalx09]

Thanks for sharing! I can't offer any help other than to keep as healthy as you can! you will figure things out!!!