Dizzy, pain in stomach

Trying to figure out the settings for how to record screaming is a pain in the ass and my family being around is constantly throwing my acting off because I'm afraid of annoying them
Not going to lie, it's all starting to make me pretty irritable to the point where my own growling stomach is starting to tick me off
I think I might have anger issues

male, M28, non smoker.
Hey, I'm writing for my family member to help look for answers since they are very hard to get.
About 3months ago my family member (I'll call him Jim) felt sick - almost like a basic flu with symptoms - cough, sore throat, runny nose 37.1°C fever. After a couple of days the cough and sore throat dissappeared, but the runny nose stayed and also a upper face pains appeared. Was given antibiotics.
After a couple of weeks of this - same fever 37°C 'ish got worried ant started not to sleep (panic attacks). This went on for weeks and Jim started to feel weak even tho he was active - walking 10k steps a day.
After a month from the beggining another thing appeared - pain in the testicles, was very hard to move because of a sharp pain, went to the doctor - found something like an infection and was given antibiotics. After them it kinda dissapeared, but would come on every once in a while. Worries came in at this point so Jim was doing every test he could get his hands on - x-rays, mrt, crb, overall blood tests - everything came up as healthy.
Jim thought that this would dissapear by itself, but he was not getting better, although symptoms are not that critical - the everyday feel is very weak, head is dizzy all the time and doctors are not helping by saying it's an psychological disorder. At the time Jim did a antibody test - found 600 sars-cov2 antibodys when the norm is 20-30, also mycoplasma pneumonia 170 which goes well with a subtle pain in the left rib are, norm is also 20-30 and was given antibiotics and is currently on the course - but at the third day - still dizzy and still feeling weak.
Any suspections, I would be very very thankful. I can clear some things up if needed since everything is very hard to explain, but the main thing is that he is feeling weak and demolished when he used to be very energetic and a maximalist. Again, thank you for reeplys.

Have had stomach pain for as long as I can remember and it started getting worse, I went to the GI and got scoped upper and lower which came back relatively normal just some inflammation and light candadia yeast. The HIDA scan came back today and this was the results. Everything is coming back good my labs the test but I don’t feel good! My stomach is constantly feeling full and upset and in pain and I don’t know where to go from here …

I've had 2 single level fusions from L4-L5 and then 5 years later, I had L3-L4 fusion. I found out earlier this month I have cervical spondy :( I can't remember but it's either C6 or C7. I found out thanks to some severe pain and numbness in my arms, pain in the neck (Not kid related for a change :P ), and some serious dizzy spells that only kicked off with any type of pressue on my head/neck. One of my good friends is a physical therapist and her initial response was "HOW DID YOU GET SPONDY IN YOUR NECK?!" I can't find much info on it, other than it's pretty uncommon. MRI results are next week and I'm almost positive we are going to have to do surgery (My hands and arms constantly stay numb, pain at night is so bad). Anyone else with neck spondy?

I've been on the combo pill for two months and i have just stopped taking it. I've had some pretty bad stomach pain with it (doc says it's due to taking it on an empty stomach), and also had other side effects like: constantly painful boobs, no libido on the second month and bad vaginal irritation (dryness?). Apart from that it has been amazing for my heavy and painful periods, which is why i took the pill in the first place.
Now my doctor has told me i could try the minipill Slynda. However this one is not yet covered by social security, and a three month pack costs almost 40€ which is crazy to me. Cerazette is covered by SS, and only costs like 1€ per month. My private insurance gives me just 40€ per year for bc by the way.
Why didn't my doctor prescribe me with Cerazette?? Is it not good for some of the side effects i mentioned? Also, since the sole reason i take bc for is to stop my period, i'm having a hard time deciding to start this new pill because of all the stories of constant bleeding...

I’m so anxious rn. I was sooo tired this morning I kept snoozing my alarm and couldn’t get up until like 11am. I woke up in the middle of last night nauseous too.
Then today I was feeling okayish, i’ve been constipated but was able to use the bathroom a few times, but now I’m having the worst stomach cramps and sharp pains and I feel nauseous. I’m trying not to spiral but it’s not really working 🥲

Hi, this might be a bit long and a bit messy, I'm not in the best mindspace right now and I'm very disoriented. For starters, I'm 14f and my mom is turning 40 this year. In my country, all 14 year olds must take an exam for finishing middle school and all the materials for maths and native language for the past 4 years are going to be on it so yea, I'm a month away from that exam.
My mom has been battling cancer since August 2022. She has liposarcoma, which for those who don't know is a rare type of cancer that forms up in the fat in your body. At first, it started out as a 30 cm tumour in her abdomen, which doctors in my home country passed it off as body fat. Only when she went to a doctor in a different country did she find out it was in fact cancer. The doctors quickly told her to get surgery, which she did a week later. She recovered after a month and we all thought that was that. Except it wasn't. Apparently, the surgeon who did the surgery had missed a small part of the tumor hidden behind the stomach, so the cancer came back. She started treatment in December that same year and was frequently going in and out of the hospital. She first was a patient for an experimental treatment, which had a 50% success rate. Unfortunately, for her it didn't work. Once the doctors saw that, they started chemotherapy. She would do chemo for two weeks, come back home for another two and then go back. This cycle continued until June 2023 when she did a brief pause as she didn't have enough white cells to continue the treatment. In September 2023, she started treatment again and she got better and better. It was like having my mom back. In early December 2023, she was cancer free. The tumor had disappeared and there were no signs of any others. Except the cancer came back only two months later, this time more aggressive. In February 2024, my mom had fainted from a severe headache. Once in the emergency room, it was discovered she had 5 new tumors. One in the abdomen, a small one near her heart and 3 near her brain. She had fainted due to a huge one near her brain that was applying pressure on it. Once again, she had surgery. This time they only removed the tumour that was applying the most pressure, as removing all of them would be quite risky. She did a few rounds of radiotherapy to ease the pain and make the tumours smaller, which did help as the tumour near her heart disappeared, but the ones near her brain only got bigger. She started doing chemo in late March/early April and she has been in the hospital since. They only did one week of chemo and then she was barely conscious for a week. Afterwards, she was getting better and steadier, she even started walking again on her own. Yet at the beginning of this week, it got worse again. Apparently, there's 6 tumours near her brain now and chemo wasn't doing much to help. She's going to start chemo next week again, but the doctor told us not to get our hopes up as the situation is very severe and haven't been a lot of cases like these. They've done everything they can, tried experimental treatments and more. The doctors said she would be lucky to even see me start the next school year. I don't know how to process all this. I always knew there was a possibility she wouldn't get better, but I never thought it would actually happen. I'm close to my mom and we used to have mother-daughter days before all this went down. I can't imagine losing her and I don't know what to do with all these emotions. I'm scared, I don't want to lose my mom, she's been there for everything and she's my best friend.
Any advice on how to act next would be greatly appreciated, thank you for reading this.

I can't do i, I just can't.
It all started with me being overweight (71,6 kg) and my parents convincing me to go to a dietician. It worked until I couldn't do it anymore (at this point I was 64,7 kg after ~7 months) and told them that I wanted to take a break from it for the summer. Well turns out I just used those months to binge over and over again until I gained back 3kg and begged my parents to let me continue my diet.
They let me and I start to loose weight(it's important to say that I've always had low self esteem and I've always believed to be below average in terms of looks even more so when I was overweight) but I couldn't shake my mind off the continuous thoughts I had on food, so I started to binge and purge a few times a week (tried it before too but couldn't manage to make me vomit so I just sticked to the diet) and the weight remained the same so I was pretty damn happy to have found a way to eat whatever I wanted and to still be able to maintain my current weight (I was still "on a diet" so I had regular chek-ups that confirmed that I was still losing it).
At some point I added some laxatives to the mix ( my bowl movements were always a bit slow so it was no problem convincing both my mother and dietician to let me take them) and started to take them every night (the maximum dosage most of the time) also causing terrible stomach aches which make me literally sweat from the pain, but whatever as long as it helps me stay consistent.
3 weeks ago I again asked to interrupt my diet as my final exams are coming up and don't have the time to plan, buy and cook what I need to.
(Also I believe it's important to say that I tend to weight myself every day, multiple times, with two different scales, just to check.)
Now I'm here crying and hating myself because I checked and went up to 64,1 kg from 62,7 kg even tho I know that it's mostly because of the food that it's still in my intestines and I honetly don't know what to do; at some point I panicked and tried to vomit but nothing came out so I cried even more. Right now I'm debating whether I should eat dinner or not.
All of this just to say that I'm mentally exhausted, hate my body, hate the relationship I have with food, hate the somachaches but love the feeling of being lighter, hate my parents' comments regarding what I eat, hate the visceral fear I have of gaining more weight while still trying to stop myself from buying unhealthy food just to purge it, hate looking at myself in the mirror, hate the fact that I am too ashamed to ask for help cause my parents would just shame me for my lack of self-control, hate whatever I have that I don't even know how to call (binge eating disorder or early stages of anorexia since I also purge normal healthy meals, but not always).
Sorry for my incoherent rant but I can't do it anymore, I just want to have a good enough body and not this constant thoughts running rampant in my mind 24/7.

so, I (20) thought I’d detail my experiences on progesterone so far in case anyone is interested in taking it.
ive been on 100 mg progesterone since about 2 months in. i boof the gel capsules every night. i just asked my plume provider for it!
so, let’s get started on the positives.
to get this out the way, breast growth. ive noticed immense breast growth from taking it early on, but i had gynecomastia pre hormones + have genetics on the larger side (my mom is a g cup, and my sisters range from double d - triple). lots of reshaping. it seems like my growth goes in cycles, where they look pointy and conal due to rapid growth, and then progesterone begins to round them out.
ive noticed my libido is upped compared to how it was on my first two months, or on the weeks ive forgotten to take it. enough said on that
body recomp/fat distribution. i didn’t notice much until month 3, about 1 month after starting prog. my hips have literally widened from 46 to 50 inches, and most of my abdominal fat has collected in the lower stomach area compared to the upper abdomen like before. my thighs and legs have also gotten extremely feminine
now, onto the negatives.
breast growth again! im currently sitting in front of my fan with my shirt off because oh my god. if any fabric touches my chest whatsoever im going to need to be institutionalized. im 7 months in and feel like im on my first week with how insanely irritating this is. i know that im lucky because i have genetics for this kind of thing, but by god is this painful. it feels like water running down my chest constantly. also, speaking of water, wear a bra in the ocean. I didn’t and when I came back home, they were literally BLEEDING. I had scabs.
emotions. im rageful again. like, genuinely rageful. it’s more of a burning, subdued kind of rage then anything else, but rage nonetheless.
that’s all!

Hi, this might be a bit long and a bit messy, I'm not in the best mindspace right now and I'm very disoriented. For starters, I'm 14f and my mom is turning 40 this year. In my country, all 14 year olds must take an exam for finishing middle school and all the materials for maths and native language for the past 4 years are going to be on it so yea, I'm a month away from that exam.
My mom has been battling cancer since August 2022. She has liposarcoma, which for those who don't know is a rare type of cancer that forms up in the fat in your body. At first, it started out as a 30 cm tumour in her abdomen, which doctors in my home country passed it off as body fat. Only when she went to a doctor in a different country did she find out it was in fact cancer. The doctors quickly told her to get surgery, which she did a week later. She recovered after a month and we all thought that was that. Except it wasn't. Apparently, the surgeon who did the surgery had missed a small part of the tumor hidden behind the stomach, so the cancer came back. She started treatment in December that same year and was frequently going in and out of the hospital. She first was a patient for an experimental treatment, which had a 50% success rate. Unfortunately, for her it didn't work. Once the doctors saw that, they started chemotherapy. She would do chemo for two weeks, come back home for another two and then go back. This cycle continued until June 2023 when she did a brief pause as she didn't have enough white cells to continue the treatment. In September 2023, she started treatment again and she got better and better. It was like having my mom back. In early December 2023, she was cancer free. The tumor had disappeared and there were no signs of any others. Except the cancer came back only two months later, this time more aggressive. In February 2024, my mom had fainted from a severe headache. Once in the emergency room, it was discovered she had 5 new tumors. One in the abdomen, a small one near her heart and 3 near her brain. She had fainted due to a huge one near her brain that was applying pressure on it. Once again, she had surgery. This time they only removed the tumour that was applying the most pressure, as removing all of them would be quite risky. She did a few rounds of radiotherapy to ease the pain and make the tumours smaller, which did help as the tumour near her heart disappeared, but the ones near her brain only got bigger. She started doing chemo in late March/early April and she has been in the hospital since. They only did one week of chemo and then she was barely conscious for a week. Afterwards, she was getting better and steadier, she even started walking again on her own. Yet at the beginning of this week, it got worse again. Apparently, there's 6 tumours near her brain now and chemo wasn't doing much to help. She's going to start chemo next week again, but the doctor told us not to get our hopes up as the situation is very severe and haven't been a lot of cases like these. They've done everything they can, tried experimental treatments and more. The doctors said she would be lucky to even see me start the next school year. I don't know how to process all this. I always knew there was a possibility she wouldn't get better, but I never thought it would actually happen. I'm close to my mom and we used to have mother-daughter days before all this went down. I can't imagine losing her and I don't know what to do with all these emotions. I'm scared, I don't want to lose my mom, she's been there for everything and she's my best friend.
Any advice on how to act next would be greatly appreciated, I don't know how to react and gesture my emotions, thank you in advance!

sorry if this is the wrong place to put this. things are really bad for me. i'm homeschooled, and i haven't gone to the doctor in years. my mental health is really bad but i somehow manage to get through every day by doing the bare minimum. i take really bad care of myself and i'm almost always in some kind of pain because i never do anything. my allergies are awful, my body hurts from sitting too much, my teeth hurt from not brushing them, my stomach hurts almost every time i eat and i feel like a worthless toddler of a failure because i can't seem to make myself do anything. i never tell my parents about how i really feel anymore. i just complain about things to which nothing is done but i guess i should expect that.
i don't remember being raised to ever talk about my feelings despite how severe my anxiety can be. i was always crying at school (back before i was homeschooled) and having meltdowns over things. i don't know if that's normal or not. i need help so bad but i'm scared that deep down i'm just a lazy piece of garbage who needs to go outside more. my parents (mostly my mom) are the kind who use essential oils and "natural" stuff for everything or whatever. i'm nearly trapped inside and i have no desire to do anything anymore that might provide me with some kind of freedom. should i just die? i don't know how to ask for help or if i'll even get it so i see no other option.

Everything is spiraling out of control. I’m a stay at home mom with a 4 year old son and a 1 year old son… 4 year old caught the stomach flu last Sunday (almost two weeks ago). Luckily my ex and I have a good relationship and even though I was supposed to pick my son up, he kept him for the next few days to take care of him. He came home on Wednesday completely symptom-free… but I KNEW he was still contagious. A FULL week later, my 1 year old caught it. He has been v* for almost 4 days now.
I am in therapy, but still in the early stages. Not much improvement yet, and I won’t see my therapist for another week because he is on vacation. I had the worst meltdown I have ever had. I haven’t eaten in four days. Barely drinking water because I’m terrified that I touch the water bottle caps and then the virus is on the cap. I can’t really do open cups because of the baby. Any time the baby even touches my water bottle, I throw it out. Ive been trying not to leave my bed and I’ve changed the sheets 8 times now. I have been taking zofran but I try not to take it too much because it gives me bad constipation. I took Xanax two nights in a row and my fiance has had to come home from work twice, even though he still has to work from home.
I am not ok. I had a little bit of soup and bread earlier which helped a little, but now I have severe body aches. I think it may be related to the Xanax but I’m not sure… I’ve never taken Xanax before and only had it prescribed for these extreme moments. But the aches are so bad and feel very flu-like.
I feel like the world’s worst mother. I sent my 4 year old to stay with grandma, and I can barely touch my 1 year old because I am so afraid of catching what he has. I have been showering multiple times a day and my hands look like they are made out of leather and hurt so bad from how dry they are because I wash my hands any time I touch literally anything in the house.
The emotional pain is unbearable. I am failing my children. I can’t stop crying. I don’t want to take Xanax again especially if these body aches are from the Xanax.
Oh, on top of it all, my fiance spent $10,000 on a special weekend trip for just the two of us that we have been planning for an entire year (non-refundable) and I am so terrified to even leave the house because I don’t want to be away from home and all of a sudden get sick from this virus. I don’t know what to do. I’ve told him I don’t want to go but I can see the sadness in his face even when he says “Please go. It’s going to be ok, but I also want to make sure you’re ok, too.” I know he is getting so backed up with work from having to come home to take the baby from me. He is hiding his stress so well and I feel so guilty. I can barely function. I don’t know what to do. I keep telling myself “Neither of the boys’ dads got sick you and they are not obsessively washing themselves like you are, you are going to be ok.” But also, I am the one who cleans up all of the sick because I feel I am the only one who will do a thorough enough job… so really, I’m exposed to it the most. What do I do? Do I risk going on this trip? How do I get out of this emotional pain? I’ve never had an episode this bad. I am completely lost. People don’t understand the pain we go through. It’s the worst pain. It truly is.

I was diagnosed with severe gastritis caused by H.pylori in December last year. After the second round of antibiotics, my stomach went in shambles. Any food that I eat other than rice and toasted bread sets me off. It is getting better now but for some reason I can’t have any dairy foods.
Whenever I have milk, I get extreme pain diarrhoea. I used to drink milk just fine before the antibiotics and even before I was diagnosed.
I am just wondering if anyone else can relate?

I was suggested by my therapist to ask people on the internet or do research on how others deal with pain.
I've been struggling with stomach pain, nausea, and heartburn for 4 years. I just turned 17 and feel like I've aged a million years. I can no longer do anything I love because of what's wrong with me. I've seen quite a lot of doctors and have gotten quite a lot of tests done, but nothing comes up. Everything's "normal." I've heard pretty much everything; lose weight, it's your fault, you're faking it, you wanted this, dramatic, anxiety, etc.
I'm tired, I've tried everything. Done everything to hopefully help me, but it never worked, or it just never lasted. Diets, medications, even yoga. I feel quite helpless.
I'm starting my last year of high school in a few months. I've been trying to go back to school for 4 years, but I can never truly go. I want to go back for my last year. Just one last chance to feel normal, like any other teenager.
I come here to ask for tips, things people do to deal with symptoms like mine. Also, how they deal with illnesses/pain mentally because it's so draining. Lastly, if anyone has the same symptoms but different diagnoses, I'd love to know. I just don't want to feel so alone.
My symptoms:
Stomach pain
Lower abdominal pain/cramping
Nausea
Heartburn
Early satiety
( My menstrual cycle makes my condition so much worse.)
This all mainly happens after I eat. I rather go days without eating than feel all this pain.
Thank you! ♡♡

I was in denial my first labor and barely made it to the hospital. Currently 38+4, had sex earlier today and have been having what I think are contractions for the last 2 hours - it’s a gradual pain that wraps around my front and back and my belly tightens. I haven’t started timing yet, but it is pretty consistent and I also tmi pooped 3 times almost back to back. Stomach is also hardening with the pain. I keep telling myself it’s just falso labor, but I also did that the first time and was 8cm upon arrival at the hospital

Does anyone else get abdominal bloating (not stomach bloating) as in below the belly button?
As soon as I eat anything I immediately feel my lower abdomen bloating up like a balloon and then the abdominal pain begins.
Today the pain was so bad I thought I was going to pass out!
The pain comes on suddenly and it’s really intense but then slowly goes down.
My lower abdomen feels sore to the touch like I’ve been punched in the gut.
Can anyone else relate? I’m trying to figure out if this is HP related or something else.
(I tested positive for HP in February 2024 and my endoscopy was normal other than HP positive)

Today; purge; start.
40 mgs daily. 5’7, 170 lbs. I’m a combat fighter and spend a lot of time in the gym and even started a cut during my course, but we left the dosage the same. I have a healthy diet and don’t drink often; don’t smoke. I do take CBD.
(That is, indeed, hair dye on my ear in the last pic)
I’ve always struggled with congested skin/closed comedones all over my face- it was never smooth. Once the cystic/nodulistic popped up when I stopped birth control and got my tubes removed, I decided it was time to find a permanent solution. Forever grateful that I did. So much more confident now; less pain; such smooth skin.
The purge was the hardest. They came up as cysts and nodules, which was very painful. Putting on lotion and sunscreen hurt; my partner caressing my face or kissing me hurt. I hated looking in the mirror. But, it passed. I want to say around 2 1/2 months in it calmed down the most?
Aching is the runner up symptom- but, as a combat fighter, I was expecting it. The course did affect my training a bit with the fatigue + soreness, but you just push through it and try not to think too much.
I had auditory hallucinations and extreme depression/aggression for one week in particular during the beginning of month two, but it, luckily, faded. As the month ended. I’m fine this month.
Migraines and dizziness seem to have increased, but I’m also in the midsts of being tested for POTS so it’s hard to say if the accutane exacerbated it or otherwise.
Mainly just dealing with redness and scarring now (and dry lips).
I was very dry (eczema) before starting, so there wasn’t a huge change besides my lips. I was well versed in hydrating, moisturizing, and protectant products.

What other conditions do you have that you think may be associated with cervical instability ? (either as a cause or a consequence).
When I started having cci symptoms (weak neck, balance issues, vertigo, nausea, dizziness, migraines-like episodes with aura, weak limbs, nystagmus, visual snow etc...) was around the same time that I started having temporo mandibular dysfunction (tmjd) symptoms : Ear and jaw pain, tightness in the jaw muscles, tinnitus, hyperacusis etc...
Im struggling with tmj symptoms again atm and my jaw position strangely seems to correlate with my neck weakness/bobble head feeling as well as cognitive issues. It is... strange.
I've also read that In some very rare cases, an autoimmune condition called myositis can substantially weaken the neck muscles here and here

This has been going on for a month now and we've been seeing doctors for the past 2 weeks.
Symptoms: Sharp pain in her side (she wakes up from it) Pain in the left arm Pain beneath the rib bone Mostly happens at night, when asleep
Several trips to the cardiologist and they have cleared her. Everything within and around her heart is fine.
2 months ago she had gotten a bacteria in her stomach, perhaps picked up from her work in a nursing home but that is only a speculation. She has gotten antibiotics for this and has finished the treatment. We don't know if it has any link to eachother.
We don't know where to look anymore. Bloodworks for all organs came back clear but she keeps waking up at night from the pain.
Does anyone have any idea? Or any idea on where to look? I'm now considering looking into the food? She has no food allergies but perhaps it changed due to age?

just need to get this off my chest and talk about it because it is making me very anxious right now
a little summary for context, i (19FTM) was sexually assaulted by a coworker (30M) at a party with other coworkers. i am currently building up the courage to press charges and have already told my work about it. they want to bury it
it happened about two months ago, and right after it happened he acted like i didn’t exist. didn’t acknowledge what had happened and could barely look me in the eye. i had tried to give him an opportunity to take accountability and apologize but he didn’t, so i knew this was something he was not sorry about and he knew what he had done. i’ve been struggling super hard ever since with coping with it, given i already have PTSD and prior sexual trauma so it just brings up a lot of stuff and feelings that bring me a lot of pain. and this whole thing is painful too
recently though…he’s started to look at me again. i catch him staring at me a lot and every time i do i feel disgusting. i don’t look him in the eye and i act like he doesn’t exist, unless i get really overwhelmed with the staring and give him the death stare so he stops.
when he looks at me it’s hard to describe but i feel like…a piece of meat. like a hunted deer. he looks at me like i was some sort of conquest, some trophy kill. like yeah look at what i got. look at who i got to touch AND that i got away with it. i bet if he could he’d taxidermy me and put me on his wall. he gets off from it. he feels powerful and it makes me feel so terrible and disgusting that he had to use me and traumatize me to feel that power.
yesterday i was at work to finish a class for something there. (not going to elaborate on what my job is because i don’t want someone who knows about this situation seeing this and realizing it’s me) because of the class, the thing pertaining to it wasn’t open so when we were finishing up he came over to open it. i was asking for someone else in class for a ride home and i could see him towering above me just staring me down. i felt so frozen and yet like i wanted to run til my legs gave. it hurt so much but i didn’t want to make it obvious it was affecting me so i tried to act as normal as possible, and now i’m suffering the consequences of that.
ever since that happened i’ve been an anxious mess. i feel so frozen and it’s hard to get rid of this knot in my chest and this nauseous feeling in my stomach. i just wanted to get it out so i wasn’t holding it in, and i do feel a bit better now. it’s just so overwhelming. i’m pretty sure i had another nightmare about him last night because of this whole situation too but i don’t really remember it. but yeah that’s the post, i just wanted to vent about this cuz venting to ppl irl doesn’t help and writing it out does, i just don’t have a journal at the moment.

tl;dr: Did Sunosi make you feel more sleepy? If you stopped taking it for any reason, did you get bad headaches/body aches or any other side effects/symptoms?
I've been taking 70mg of Vyvanse and 20-40mg of Ritalin as needed for about 4-5 years now, and the combo works "okay". It's kind of manageable, but not great. I tried Wakix for two months in 2022 but it made me depressed, and as I have bipolar II with a history of chronic depression that's a no-go, so I stopped. About four months ago I started Sunosi and was up to 150mg - and it felt like it did nothing to help with the sleepiness/exhaustion, and even seemed to make me feel more sleepy? Like with just the Vyvanse/Ritalin combo I still get sleep attacks where I need to lie down, but I can't actually sleep - I have to just relax as if I'm going to nap for at least 30-45 minutes and then I'm (usually) good to go. But with Sunosi in the mix I would actually fall asleep when I napped during the day and I couldn't nap for anything less than 45 minutes, usually more than an hour, which is not dissimilar to how it was before I took any stimulants. I didn't notice any emotional or mental side effects, pretty much just the sleepiness.
I stopped taking the Sunosi about a week ago to see if it was really making a difference, and now I'm definitely having more headaches/migraines than usual (I have chronic migraines as it is), and my regular medication doesn't always make it stop, but I can't be sure if it's from stopping the med or if my migraines are just acting up. I also felt *really* nauseated yesterday morning and actually had to leave work, and my stomach has felt kind of messed up in general. I do feel a bit less sleepy and foggy during the day, but the headaches really suck, and I feel like my pain levels have been worse in general too.
If you've been on Sunosi did you notice any negative effects (other than agitation)? Did you ever feel more sleepy? And if you stopped it, did you have any "withdrawal" symptoms or negative effects? Everything I've seen says that Sunosi doesn't cause withdrawal issues, but I've had some weird side effects with other meds that supposedly weren't common, so I just don't know.
For context: I have narcolepsy w/o cataplexy, bipolar II disorder, ADHD, chronic migraines, and am being evaluated for Ehler's-Danlos Syndrome. I take 70mg Vyvanse, 20-40mg Ritalin, 300mg of Lamictal, 100mg Zoloft, 10mg Abilify, 5mg rizatriptan as needed and just started Emgality injections for migraines