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my overactive bladder was getting normal day by day but after taking antibiotics for dirreha its 1000 times worse now...will stopping antibiotics stops it....o my God it got so bad after using antibiotic

@Dwell, now that you have posted your success story, I'll lock this thread. Congrats

What a wonderful post, @Dwell. Thank you so much for coming back and writing your story. Wishing you much happiness with your expanding family 😊

@Kaylaq you probably already know this: Natural treatment for H. pylori: What works Probiotics. Probiotics help maintain the balance between good and bad gut bacteria. ... Green tea. ... Honey. ... Olive oil. ... Licorice root. ... Broccoli sprouts. ... Phototherapy. ... Curcumin. https://www.healthline.com › health H. pylori: Natural Treatments and More - Healthline

Glad things seem to be a tiny bit better. Hoping stays that way! I had to add chicken for breakfast with eggs and wild blueberries to get more protein in me. So chicken every meal but it helped! hope your wknd goes ok.

I rejected my suffering, my unhappiness, my pain, my trauma, in order to be fully "functional", "moral", "normal", "happy", to satisfy my traumatic and legitimate human and personal needs, meet social and moral expectations and live the awesome life promised by capitalism, because I saw my mental and emotional distress as obstacles to achieving all that, as moral defects, abnormal, illogical, meaningless, and my suffering consumed me. This is how my post-traumatic and moral crisis began in 2015 and that is why it still continues in 2024, more than 8 years later. Rejecting suffering only creates more suffering, because suffering is not there just to make you suffer, suffering is there to tell you how to stop the suffering, it's invaluable (raw) feedback that shows the way to real happiness. Suffering doesn't comes from suffering, it comes from what happened or happens to you. Rejecting it aggravates the pain because not only you don't acknowledge or ignore what's causing it and you can't stop it, but it becomes chronic and its intensity gets amplified. We are not bornt to be happy, we are bornt to fight for happiness, i.e. to suffer but given the choice to achieve happiness with our human mind and freedom, being aware that we all are gonna die. This is the human condition, unhappiness and the search for happiness, meaning and purpose to our existence, suffering and Life. But this insane society demands people to be "happy" all the time, hyperactive, motivated, engaged, stimulated, because that way they consume more and become more productive, being "happy" then becomes a social and moral expectation, mandatory, unnatural, fake, insane.

@LostInCanada @Dahlia50 @BaccatePlayer thank you, If the H. Phylori hadn’t kicked in again, it cause so much stomach pain, exhaustion and really messes with the mood & thoughts! Every time I eat it makes me throw up! So tired of all this…. Thank you for checking up on me, so lonely 😭

my frequent urination seems to get severe after taking antibiotics for diherria

I never thought I would get to write my success story. I honestly thought I would end a cautionary tale, but here we are. 8 years later and thriving. My personal hell started in September of 2016. I was 29 years old about to turn 30 and my husband and I had happily gotten pregnant, hoping for a second child. That pregnancy ended in miscarriage but I had already gone cold turkey off the Paxil I had been taking for 3+ years. I continued my buspirone, but just one week after quitting the Paxil, I was going through hell. My hell was something I could have never imagined to be so terrible. Brain zaps, muscle weakness, depersonalization, and overall disconnect from real life. I could not be left alone, as a grown adult and mother , my husband had to babysit me at all times. I no longer wanted to be on this earth, but I knew I could not give up. For about 2-3 years it was a constant struggle but every day I made myself promise to just go one more day, if not for me, for my husband and child. The list of symptoms was a mile long, and to be honest I’m so happy that I cannot remember or feel half of them. I hope to never remember that misery. When I was in the thick of it nothing seemed to help, but now looking back, having a good support (my husband), getting outside, and clinging to each minute were the only things that got me through. I quit work, was not driving, and had to schedule my days where other grown ups could sit with me so I was never alone. It was all encompassing and it was exhausting. I don’t remember an exact time line but the last 3-4 years have been so healing for me. Covid and lockdowns really sent me into a spiral but healing came soon after. Today, I am back to work (part time), I’ve had another child, and I am currently pregnant with twins. I am inching my way back into driving. I’m not perfect and I know to some extent I’ll always live with some side effect. Brain fog, trouble concentrating, and anxiety being some of them but life is so much better! People always ask why the people who recovered aren’t here to help those still going through it. It’s not out of not caring, it’s just that life is so much better in the other side. We are out there taking advantage of every minute we get outside of the hell! There is hope, you will get through it. It does take way too long but healing does happen! Life is good, it’s worth waiting. YOU WILL NOT BE STUCK IN THIS FOREVER! I wish all of you nothing but healing! ❤️‍🩹

i visited a doctor and diagnosed having diherria and he prescribed me antibiotics....i hope antibiotics dosent effect my revovery from overactibe bladder or will it effect my revovery ?

@Erimus one last question… I’ve been thinking today about everything that’s happened in the last several months i’m slightly confused as to why I never stabilized on 125 whenever I increased several months ago. I had given it 6 weeks at the time and I got a really bad wave at 6 weeks along which is why I increased to 150. Thoughts on the mechanisms/reasoning behind all of that?

Amen to that! Thanks guys everyone have a great night

@Kaylaq I hear you! If I had known it could turn out like this, wouldnt have gone off either. We want the suffering to end. Recognize everything you say. It's not okay to be in pain constantly. You have to be able to express how it is. You are doing your best. But I know, we want a functioning normal life. But I guess we have to appreciate the small things. Do what we can. Sending warmest thoughts 💛🌻

My blue light blocking glasses look like regular glasses with clear lenses. They were Rx by my eye doctor.

A small update. I was trying to avoid updating while struggling but there it goes: I have been struggling very hard the last few months. It's just one thing after another. Just when I think I have regained some balance a new curveball gets thrown. I have had to make difficult choices and I am not sure how I have survived so far. Context is hard and of course, part of it is withdrawal which makes everything much harder. I am so tired of this. I oscillate between numb and on the verge of akathisia. I really want this to stop. OMW

Yes, it sure is . I was on 900 mlg a day for like months and it was brutal . Coming off . I only took it prn . I won’t take it again . No way . I won’t go through that again . Just got nervous 😬. It’s been just insane w me . I don’t know many that have had this situation that have an illness and wds at same time . 😢these drugs ruined my life . I would be able to do much more if my brain wasn’t like this from meds . 🤷‍♀️ok . Thanks 🙏

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@Kaylaq you have had some good days. More will come. Maybe putting a hold on SJW taper for a bit. I downloaded the Libby app. It is great if you have a library card. Reading is my main distraction and it transports me from withdrawal to beautiful places. Hoopla is also great through the Library for shows and movies. Concentrate on what you can do, not what you can't. I have had to carve out such a different life from before but that is okay. I am appreciating the smallest blessings because that is what I have to work will. You have come so far. You are off the meds and you are a survivor. Practicing 'good for me's' might help. It is part of CBT. Good for me: I had a shower, I did an on line grocery shop, I changed the sheets. Celebrate the smallest achievements because right now they are equivalent to climbing Mount Everest. ❤️❤️❤️

Yes, this is the goal you're after. Absolutely, be patient! This is key during all of this. Being scared is NORMAL. It's a scary situation. But keep trusting that it will get better because it will! I've had all the symptoms on your list and while I still have some of them, the intensity is so much less. And never give up. It's just not an option ❤️

Some adverse effects of drugs can require urgent action and a fast or immediate quitting. You or your GP will have to decide how urgent and important reducing your cholesterol is. Maybe there are other things you can do for your cholesterol to buy you time (diet change, exercise)? Maybe only reducing Olan will already help with the cholesterol. There are a lot of variables to consider when making such decisions...and in the end only you can decide. Regardless of all other things, if tapering a psychotropic drug is your only concern, it's best to keep it slow.

Yes you can stop it immediately. This is another bad one you don't want to get stuck on.

Btw, @BaccatePlayer, all my symptoms are improving, even if I'm still in pain. I'm working on not seeing my unhappines as signs of illness or something wrong with me, but as natural and temporary until things change naturally or I make those changes myself. Why should unhappiness be a mental illness, a character flaw or moral defect? Sounds insane to me, if I think about it, in fact, thinking that happiness is human beings normal mental and emotional state is just crazy. Life simply doesn't work that way. My only symptom that I think remains is a very ugly tinitus in my left ear, also my hair keeps falling. I hope that those two symptoms improve when my stress levels go down. I'm surprised by how many coping skills, distress tolerance and knowledge about my suffering and unhappiness I lost with Sertraline and psychiatry. I truly became dumber and weaker.

What is the brand name please? Probably can't get them in Canada but I can try .