20 hours ago, Sophia said:

Anyone here who also feels like their brain is unable to produce a natural tried / drowsy feeling? Its hard to explain but I can’t feel mentally tired anymore since I touched the med. Sometimes I do a little but then it’s just brainfog.

My brain feels sort of fake clear. In a chemical way. That prevents it from feeling sleepy or soft?

This is al so hard to explain but I hope this makes sense haha..

Luckily my sleep is quite okay but my head feels very chemically clear. Also hollow / like air a lot of the time.

I know what you are feeling, and it's weird. It's part of the healing process. Hang in there...

Hi all,

I’m having severe headaches these days. Really severe. Do you think it’s a wave/aggravation? Thank you! 😢

can you describe how they feel @poulette38

I have excruciating head pains and symptoms in this withdrawal

It’s out of this world… :(

13 minutes ago, poulette38 said:

I’m having severe headaches these days. Really severe. Do you think it’s a wave/aggravation? Thank you! 😢

This is all part of the healing process and very common in waves. I, myself, dealing with the headache too. I sometimes feel it in one side of head or next side.

Hang in there.....

17 minutes ago, poulette38 said:

Hi all,

I’m having severe headaches these days. Really severe. Do you think it’s a wave/aggravation? Thank you! 😢

I get a lot of headaches and migraines too, on and off, ranging anywhere from mild to debilitating. It does seem very common in WD/drug injury. I'm sorry you're starting to experience that now. I'll keep my fingers crossed that it's short lived for you.

1 hour ago, Sophia said:

can you describe how they feel @poulette38

I have excruciating head pains and symptoms in this withdrawal

It’s out of this world… :(

Does someone take paracetamol and can handle it? I’m not in favor of it and I avoided taking it during the acute phase, where I also had a few terrible headaches, but they didn’t last for several days. It hurts me to scream :(

The impression @Sophia is like if you’ve had 100 blows to the head with an axe; it clenches, burns, is heavy and hurts. I can’t even cry from the pain, my brain is like anesthetized: I spend hours sitting before motivating myself to heat a meal or drink a glass of water. 😔

23 minutes ago, poulette38 said:

Does someone take paracetamol and can handle it? I’m not in favor of it and I avoided taking it during the acute phase, where I also had a few terrible headaches, but they didn’t last for several days. It hurts me to scream :(

I’m sorry it’s so bad 😢 I’ve used ibuprofen a couple times in the last few months when a headache got really unbearable. It didn’t make me worse, but compared to others on here I think I’m less sensitive to things like OTC meds and supplements generally. So just be careful!

36 minutes ago, poulette38 said:

Does someone take paracetamol and can handle it? I’m not in favor of it and I avoided taking it during the acute phase, where I also had a few terrible headaches, but they didn’t last for several days. It hurts me to scream :(

The impression @Sophia is like if you’ve had 100 blows to the head with an axe; it clenches, burns, is heavy and hurts. I can’t even cry from the pain, my brain is like anesthetized: I spend hours sitting before motivating myself to heat a meal or drink a glass of water. 😔

I have this as well… it feels completely injured and like outside of my brain is rock hard en like someone poured concrete in it. Sometimes it expands my entire head (so face, sides and back of head). Like entire brain is bruised.

For me the only thing that helps sometimes is to lay down and try to nap….

Paracetamol doesn’t help me so I don’t take anything.

It feels really like brain damage to be honest… I hope the brain is repairing much when it had these sensations 😔❤️‍🩹

38 minutes ago, poulette38 said:

Does someone take paracetamol and can handle it? I’m not in favor of it and I avoided taking it during the acute phase, where I also had a few terrible headaches, but they didn’t last for several days. It hurts me to scream :(

The impression @Sophia is like if you’ve had 100 blows to the head with an axe; it clenches, burns, is heavy and hurts. I can’t even cry from the pain, my brain is like anesthetized: I spend hours sitting before motivating myself to heat a meal or drink a glass of water. 😔

I have used ibuprofen, but only when it's bad. I have only used medication pills for headache only one time. I just tried to hold it until it goes away....29 months journey, but headaches better than any other months. I get it few times week.

Are there more people who feel like their entire mind (emotions + cognition) is blunted? I have such a blank mind and really miss my mental chatter. My inner monologue is heavily reduced and I barely hear it. I need to actively activate my thinking and it’s like my brain does not have networks or energy to do it.

I already got this on the meds and it was the reason I wanted to discontinue them

I feel like it has barely changed at all.

Its really hard to trust that this will get better… it feels like I really have fried / damaged my brain, as I have also excruciating head pains almost everyday. I just feel this is all completely wrong 🥹😔… can’t understand how a human brain can even feel and act like this. Completely out of this world.

5 hours ago, Sophia said:

Are there more people who feel like their entire mind (emotions + cognition) is blunted? I have such a blank mind and really miss my mental chatter. My inner monologue is heavily reduced and I barely hear it. I need to actively activate my thinking and it’s like my brain does not have networks or energy to do it.

I already got this on the meds and it was the reason I wanted to discontinue them

I feel like it has barely changed at all.

Its really hard to trust that this will get better… it feels like I really have fried / damaged my brain, as I have also excruciating head pains almost everyday. I just feel this is all completely wrong 🥹😔… can’t understand how a human brain can even feel and act like this. Completely out of this world.

The brain is a very powerful muscle and it can cause all sorts of symptoms and havoc with our bodies. Maybe practicing some forms of mindfulness can help. There are some really good beginner tai chi videos on YouTube that are great for connecting your mind and body to the moment. They help you focus on the movements and pay attention to your position, so they engage your mind as well. Might be worth a try...

Guys how are your brains feeling? I can write a book about my head symptoms.

Pressure

Feeling like my brain petrified (cement block in forehead)

Parts feeling missing; like air / empty hole

Feeling like a knot is stuck in the middle my head

Bruised feeling

Feeling like an irritated nerve is very tightly stretched in middle of my head

Numb feeling

Itchy / uncomfortable tingling in brain

Layers in my head with plateaus and air

Face pressure

Hollowness feeling in face

11 months off, but still baffled every single day by these symptoms.

Because of my head sensations, I can’t experience normal human head sensations like dehydration headache, blood in brain bending over, concentration headaches (tension), etc.

It this all common? Or am I being a weirdo with very specific individual weird symptoms?!

@Sophia have them all

@Sophia Head symthoms are not the hardest thing in my case, but I still see some similarities.

When I was on many drugs I felt separated spots of pressure on my skull, from inside to outside. Like islands in the middle of the ocean...

In 2020 i was free of any drug and as I remember, I had a feeling like I have a metal ball inside my prefrontal lobe. It felt like pressure. I can say that if fade away, but until today it's felt like many parts of my brain are missing.

Because of my chemical sensitivity I had a feeling that my head will explode sometimes.

So, yes, brain symthoms were/are there.

The most apparent head symthom is now a burning sensation on my the left side of my face. (Like Lisha from SA BTW)

14 minutes ago, The Dust said:

I can say that if fade away, but until today it's felt like many parts of my brain are missing.

You still have this 8 years being off all meds? 🥹

That’s so horrible I am so sorry! It does scare me a little bit as well.. these symptoms feel so permanent and unnatural. I really hope our brains will bounce back❤️‍🩹

2 minutes ago, Sophia said:

You still have this 8 years being off all meds? 🥹

That’s so horrible I am so sorry! It does scare me a little bit as well.. these symptoms feel so permanent and unnatural. I really hope our brains will bounce back❤️‍🩹

Thanks!!

I don't like to make anyone scared, but I have to be fair. Yep. It lasts that long in my case. But actually, is not the scariest thing in my case. I can still point out that symthoms are exchanging and fluctuating. Last year I stared having some some quick episodes of being able to cry again...