Re: 40 years old and seeking medication for the first time

[Anonymous]

Moka, perhaps you have a sinus infection and it’s not at all related to your meds. I had a horrible sinus infection once and those were all the symptoms I had at the time (I wasn’t even on ADHD meds back then).

I sometimes think we try to overthink any new med that we begin taking. I’m not saying we should all turn off our brains when we start taking a new med.

Instead, I think we should stop hyper-focussing on every little thing we notice or feel when we start a new med. When I start a new med, I always read about theURGENT, go directly to the hospital, seek medical assistance side-effects. The side-effects that are listed first are the ones I ignore since many of them are considered to be only minor ‘annoyance’ symptoms that either disappear after a week or so, once your system has adjusted.

We tend to spend too much time over analyzing the little things and forget to focus on the other stuff. Afterall, would we give up on chemo because we felt a bit dizzy or nauseous everytime we had a treatment? Of course not! We know that those side-effects are OK in the grand scheme of things because our ultimate goal is to eradicate a bigger problem- the cancer.

That’s why I just watch out for any of the life-threatening side-effects that are listed for any new med I take for anything. The minor side-effects usually go away on their own and if they don’t, and are more troublesome than the condition that the med is supposed to be treating- then I go to my doc and say, “we need to make some changes here”.

Just saying….

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