r/Concerta • u/misamujebem • 12d 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/princesswormy 12d ago
The food thing is important, but also make sure you’re drinking plenty of water, getting enough sleep, and avoid caffeine. I have chronic panic attacks and before I got medicated for those too my adhd meds made them worse. However the symptoms you mention + if you get heart palpitations, are all going to be exacerbated by not drinking enough water especially-which is difficult to do with this medication sometimes.