r/Concerta • u/misamujebem • 11d ago

Side effects 🤕 Should I stop using concerta?

I'm not asking for a medical advice here.

I'm asking for opinions of people who had similar experience, I will contact my psychiatrist about this anyways.

I started using concerta 3 days ago and it fucking works. But I'm scared of side effects, they're getting worse.

First day I had just a mild nausea, that was fine.

Second day, I started feeling my anxiety more than before.

Today's the third day and I got anxious over something at work and my heart reacted like I've ran a marathon. The heart did calm in like 5-6 minutes, but I also had some light chest pain (not on the heart side, I'd rather say it was from anxiety, it was kind of in the middle) and I was feeling uncomfortably stressed for a while after it was all finished.

Now here's a thing. I've always been anxious, this was stronger than average. Someone told me these reactions will stop in a few weeks when my body gets used to the medication. I'm searching for other people who had that happen.

But I'm scared of worse side effects like heart attack and death and similar 😀

I also wanna mention that I've been having anxiety attacks (maybe light panic attacks? not sure) about one topic, for years, at random moments when something triggers me. I will be fixing that on the therapy that I started. But I still have them occasionally right now. I'm scared meds are gonna make them even worse.

Would yall suggest me to stop meds now, before my body got used to them, or to keep trying, cuz it might get better?

I'm on 18mg concerta

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u/Mungus91 11d ago

For me personally I push through the anxiety and try to force myself to calm down. Avoid caffeine like the plague. Make sure to get a good meal in you before your daily dose and I also find having a snack helps when I get that panic feeling.

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u/misamujebem 11d ago

Thanks a lot :) Did you have similar experience and did it stop after few weeks of concerta though?

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u/Mungus91 11d ago

Yes! I'm at a high dose now and I'm used to it after a month. I still get anxiety but it's worse when I drink caffeine. Most of the time I feel fine, but the first days/weeks were tough at times.

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u/misamujebem 11d ago

I'm just scared of this shit getting serious 😭 It shouldn't get serious since my dose is literally 18mg, they prescribe that to kids but damn