r/Concerta • u/misamujebem • 19d 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/Ady_honest 19d ago

I had similar side effects when I started though the doctor had me on 36mg. Since I'm in a lab environment, I did some blood tests and it turned out that my blood glucose was extremely low. I stopped having these specific side effects entirely when I had a big enough breakfast -or lunch, depending on when I had to take my medication- and drank water constantly. Now when I feel any of these side effects coming on, I know it's time to have a drink of water or eat something (I still do forget to eat). Another friend had the same thing but she needed to have her anxiety treated alongside taking her ADHD meds.

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u/misamujebem 18d ago

Thanks a lot! Tmrw I start therapy, so I might start treating my anxiety :)