1 hour ago, AAoffZ_2 said:

Holy moley this is bad. WICKED fierce anxiety in my chest now. Whole body is shaking and and I didn’t really sleep. It’s so so bad.  

Oh I'm sorry you are on this situation.  I went thru the same and it's difficult.  Hang in there my friend.  Your body is healing deeper.  Things will improve again.

 

Prayers for you.  You have been strong and all will pass.  God is with you.

 

The chest anxiety was one of the worst symptoms for me too, but it will all pass.  Take a long walk in nature...it helped me..

Okay… I’m curious. Who else on here violently reacts to supplements, herbs, etc.?

 

I can’t take anything! Although, part of my problem is being more aware of building symptoms. Hind sight I was dealing with dry mouth, vivid dreams, and agitation and bad intrusive thoughts for weeks and I didn’t realize I was reacting to the tea tree oil probably because I had made a drop in December. 
 

Anyway, according to my notes, when this happened with fish oil and the earl grey tea, it took a solid two weeks to come out of the worst of it. Today is day 6. I’m holding fast to the Lord and his promises for me. And I know he will never leave me nor forsake me. 

1 hour ago, AAoffZ_2 said:

I’m curious. Who else on here violently reacts to supplements, herbs, etc.?

I only had one day at the beginning of the journey that I took a small amount of magnesium.  I did not have any reactions, but I decided to be away from supplements on this journey.  I only take the vitamins on normal fruits I eat regularly.   

 

I just want my body to heal as normal as possible without putting anything on my body.

 

@AAoffZ_2i feel for you , I'm strugggling at the moment myself and have kids to Look after . It's so hard . I hope the rest of the day is better for you 

Update. It’s been 1.5 weeks since I stopped using the topical oil. I experienced an EXTREME come down from this. Things have been very turbulent for the last week. I’ve had bouts of extreme anxiety, fear, and restlessness starting 2 days after oil cessation. My guess is the oil was activating my nervous system all along since I began using it 7 weeks ago and it was building up. Hence why I was experiencing intrusive thoughts, and moments of agitation. I thought it was due to drop, and I don’t think that was the case as all. Now I’m riding out the waves from this. Thankful for the windows. They keep me going. Hope this can help someone who doesn’t realize what power certain essential oils can wield! 

Edited February 20Feb 20 by AAoffZ_2

3 minutes ago, AAoffZ_2 said:

Update. It’s been 1.5 weeks since I stopped using the topical oil. I experienced an EXTREME come down from this. Things have been very turbulent for the last week. I’ve had bouts of extreme anxiety and restlessness starting 2 days after oil cessation. My guess is the oil was activating my nervous system all along since I began using it 7 weeks ago and it was building up. Hence why I was experiencing intrusive thoughts, and moments of agitation. I thought it was due to drop, and I don’t think that was the case as all. Now I’m riding out the waves from this. Thankful for the windows. They keep me going. Hope this can help someone who doesn’t realize what power certain essential oils can wield! 

Thanks for the information.  

You are doing great and God with you too.  Keep going through.....you are a strong warrior....

Saturday update. Two days of feeling mostly better. Starting to see glimpses of normalcy. Definitely %100 functional again, praise the Lord. This dang sensitive CNS is making me gray. 
 

Thankful to have an outlet of people who understand. 

1 hour ago, AAoffZ_2 said:

Saturday update. Two days of feeling mostly better. Starting to see glimpses of normalcy. Definitely %100 functional again, praise the Lord. This dang sensitive CNS is making me gray. 
 

Thankful to have an outlet of people who understand. 

So happy to read 😊

4 hours ago, AAoffZ_2 said:

Saturday update. Two days of feeling mostly better. Starting to see glimpses of normalcy. Definitely %100 functional again, praise the Lord. This dang sensitive CNS is making me gray. 
 

Thankful to have an outlet of people who understand. 

Great to hear this.

 

You are doing great.  Keep going..

@AAoffZ_2 glad you are leveling out... sending hugs...❤️🙏

Can’t catch a break over here. Had some spiking of symptoms.. not terrible. Nervous system just feels very overstimulated randomly at times. I haven’t felt back to my baseline yet, which I figured. It’s usually a slow climb there. Lots of ups and downs. 
 

WELL, a few days ago, I went to go clean the humidifier my mom had lent me (thankfully I only used it for a few days), and the inside of the chamber was coated with THICK BLACK SLIME.  
 

I’m so anxious this is going to spike more symptoms. It’s been 3 days since I discovered the humidifier issue. 
 

Time will tell. Whatever the case, I’ll get through it. Just upset and frustrated. 

 

I’m three weeks deep into this mess. Still having spikes of symptoms but my baseline is improving ever so slowly so that’s good.
 

Last night I was totally symptom free for about 6 hours, then around midnight, symptoms spiked again. Now riding an ups and downs of doom and agitation. It’s not constant. Comes in short 1 ish hour bursts. Two days ago it was constant intrusive, looping, sticky thoughts,  so idk what’s worse 😅 Probably the thoughts because it’s hard to distract from those. 
 

Keep going everyone! I pray for and think of you all daily. 
 

 

@AAoffZ_2 it's nice to read you have 6 hours of relief . It's a real blessing when that happens . 
keep going your doing great 

🙏

 

6 hours ago, AAoffZ_2 said:

I’m three weeks deep into this mess. Still having spikes of symptoms but my baseline is improving ever so slowly so that’s good.
 

Last night I was totally symptom free for about 6 hours, then around midnight, symptoms spiked again. Now riding an ups and downs of doom and agitation. It’s not constant. Comes in short 1 ish hour bursts. Two days ago it was constant intrusive, looping, sticky thoughts,  so idk what’s worse 😅 Probably the thoughts because it’s hard to distract from those. 
 

Keep going everyone! I pray for and think of you all daily. 
 

 

 

Thank you, this has helped me right now. I have the constant looping today. Worst in 3 years. The agitation too. 

 

You keep going too.  

 

 

 

 

7 hours ago, AAoffZ_2 said:

I’m three weeks deep into this mess. Still having spikes of symptoms but my baseline is improving ever so slowly so that’s good.
 

Last night I was totally symptom free for about 6 hours, then around midnight, symptoms spiked again. Now riding an ups and downs of doom and agitation. It’s not constant. Comes in short 1 ish hour bursts. Two days ago it was constant intrusive, looping, sticky thoughts,  so idk what’s worse 😅 Probably the thoughts because it’s hard to distract from those. 
 

Keep going everyone! I pray for and think of you all daily. 
 

 

Wonderful to read of your 6 hour window. Proof healing is happening. 😀 you’re doing great! More to come! 

So my dismay, I’m still pretty up and down. It’s frustrating. I had 2 symptom-free baseline days this week. But symptoms spiked again two nights ago. 
 

Morning anxiety, shaky and restless feeling. Mild fear. It’s relatively mild..maybe 3/10 in intensity.  Haven’t had any intense symptoms for 3 weeks, which is actually really encouraging. Now it’s just good days and yucks days. 
 

My seasonal allergies also started a week ago 😞
 

Hoping and praying for everyone. 

Edited March 15Mar 15 by AAoffZ_2

1 hour ago, AAoffZ_2 said:

seasonal allergies also started a week ago

It's been bad here already for a couple weeks....do you use anything? 

It's been giving me bad headaches. Trying to relax into it and taking it slow.

Glad you have had a bit of relief.

❤️🙏

4 hours ago, LostinCanada said:

It's been bad here already for a couple weeks....do you use anything? 

It's been giving me bad headaches. Trying to relax into it and taking it slow.

Glad you have had a bit of relief.

❤️🙏

 No I don’t! Too afraid. I wear a mask outside and that helps tremendously. Last year I took half of a child’s dose of Allegra with success. As long as it’s not every day. Do you take anything? 

44 minutes ago, AAoffZ_2 said:

Do you take anything? 

No... terrified...as my dose of paroxetine has reduced, my allergies have increased. 

I've been using lots of warm compresses on my eyes and some eye drops that have no preservatives and are pretty natural....hydrasense eye drops and hylo eye drops. Apparently, preservatives can cause rebound and so can anti reddening ingredients.

I took 1/2 a children's Benadryl for multiple wasp stings and had increased anxiety for a month ... 

19 hours ago, LostinCanada said:

I took 1/2 a children's Benadryl for multiple wasp stings and had increased anxiety for a month ... 

Benadryl is what I originally took one time, 7-8 years ago for an anxiety episode before I was even on an SSRI. and it sent me into raging panic. I can’t even imagine what it would do to me now!

Hello again, friends. I am still struggling. Not everyday. But man, the waves just keep coming. I felt back to baseline for 2 almost 3 days thinking it was over and now I’m drowning in agitation, intrusive thoughts and anxiety again.
 

At this point I have no idea what’s causing it… my cycle about to start, my drop in December, the tea tree oil poisoning, the time change (I took my dose an hour early on accident and I’m really sensitive to this) the mold spores I breathed in for 4 nights, my allergies…? I have a gut feeling it’s multiple things, but the tea tree oil use for 7 weeks as the main offender. Like the bucket theory of 1 thing may not be an issue, but multiple things tip you over into instability. 
 

Anyway… floating and coping. 

Edited March 16Mar 16 by AAoffZ_2

Little update just for my own records. The physical has now changed to mostly mental for the last two days. The looping, sticky thoughts are now the main offense. 
 

Evenings have been better the last two days, and im sleeping okay thankfully. Trying to stay positive but man, my brain could use a break from the racing. 

I’m in really bad shape. Deep chest anxiety, fear, barely slept. Intrusive thoughts looping over and over. Having fear reactions to random thoughts. It’s 100 percent chemical. 
 

I have not been well since a couple weeks into applying the tea tree oil. Since then, it’s been wave after wave with only a handful of normal days in between. The symptoms rapidly change from physical to mental. Idk what the heck this crap did to my nervous system. But I’m so unwell. Evenings were my only reprieve for the last few weeks, but last night was HORRIBLE. 
 

Im using everything I got in my coping box. It’s so so bad 😭 looking for some encouragement. 

 

@LostinCanada @Chippy @Tracey @Raymond 

8 minutes ago, AAoffZ_2 said:

I’m in really bad shape. Deep chest anxiety, fear, barely slept. Intrusive thoughts looping over and over. Having fear reactions to random thoughts. It’s 100 percent chemical. 
 

I have not been well since a couple weeks into applying the tea tree oil. Since then, it’s been wave after wave with only a handful of normal days in between. The symptoms rapidly change from physical to mental. Idk what the heck this crap did to my nervous system. But I’m so unwell. Evenings were my only reprieve for the last few weeks, but last night was HORRIBLE. 
 

Im using everything I got in my coping box. It’s so so bad 😭 looking for some encouragement. 

 

@LostinCanada @Chippy @Tracey @Raymond 

Im so sorry to read this 😞

 

Sounds like the tea tree has triggered you a bit. 
 

You’ve been holding since dec? Did you feel bad after that drop hence the hold? What was your previous dose?

 

Would be good if your signature had your dose history in it when you feel able. 
 

Thinking of you. 
 

Chippy

@Chippy yeah I’ve held since Dec.

 

 

But a few weeks after that tiny drop is when I began using the tea tree oil heavily. And after a few weeks of use, I started to get intrusive thoughts and vivid dreams and night sweating (all tell tales of CNS dysregulation for me). And I thought it was from the drop so I didn’t stop the tea tree oil. Until I started getting aka so I knew that wasn’t from the drop. 
 

Upon stopping the tea tree I had 2 horrible weeks of physical symptoms, then a week long window and now I’ve been in another horrible wave of mental symptoms that started mild and built up to this for over a week.

 

It’s all over the place. Before my drop in Dec, I held for 4 months and felt great with no symptoms.