perfecto_maduro

My advice is to take a breath and focus on the present. Chip away at what’s causing your anxiety. Don’t shy away from working on yourself. Use your medication as a tool, not as a solution.

I’m painfully aware that these are all much easier said than done. It was a three year journey for me. And who knows - I may start having panic attacks again. If I do, I’m going to try buspar.

Also. Don’t be afraid to switch medications. Don’t just live with severe side effects. Sexual dysfunction, lethargy, significant weight gain - this is no way to live your life. I found the Prozac - Wellbutrin combo to be pretty tame in that department.

I can usually tell by intuition if weather is going to trigger things — I’ll even say, “it feels migrainey out” — but I don’t have one specific weather pattern that is clearly the cause.

That’s why I pay attention to the barometer. The barometer frequently predicts big, nonspecific weather changes so whenever I see one on the horizon I know that I might get a migraine when that happens.

Regarding preparation, I try to get stuff down so I can take it easy around the time when the pressure is shifting.

For example, later this afternoon the pressure is supposed to climb quite a bit so I’m getting critical blockers for work done this morning and then I’m going to visit the gym at lunch. It really helps my stress level if I can finish my plan for the day before a headache puts me out. I hope that makes some sense?

I did debate writing how 'headache'y I felt periodically with timestamps (e.g. make a telegram bot -> google sheet) and then add in some weather data and see if it was actually correlated if I plotted them