Lupron/Chemical Menopause for Ovarian Cysts - Anxiety

I got my first shot today, the past year and a half has been hell with my cysts. HELL.

Well SmUrf. I don't know if it's me just being nervous and really hoping this works (yet scared of side effects) but I am anxious as SmUrf now. Like right at the edge of a damn anxiety attack. I looked it up and there are reports of people having severe anxiety the next day after getting a Lupron shot. Is it possible for me to be getting a side effect of anxiety already? I sincerely hope this doesnt last although there are people saying they couldn't continue past the first months treatment.

I told my boyfriend I feel like our old friend that thought he had every ailment in the world and caused himself to have an anxiety disorder. Get bit by a bug and have a hard bump from it? OH NO ITS A CANCER BUMP! Get a cough from a cold? NOPE IM GOING TO GET PNEUMONIA! A few extra people in a room that he doesn't know? CHECK MY PULSE IM GOING TO DIE SmUrf IM GOING TO DIE CALL THE AMBULANCE! ----- Yes.... he did smurf like that and was ALWAYS checking his pulse and said he was about to have an anxiety attack. But now I KNOW I am about to have an anxiety attack and wish I had some xanax... he ate them like candy for no reason at all but I truly feel anxious and this isn't normal for me.

But again, this might be me having jitters hoping this works. But as I said, our friend looked up stuff on everything all the time and I have looked up this drug a lot (I really didnt know if I wanted to do the treatment, but felt like I had to) but now I certainly feel anxious. Look it up again... yup, anxiety is a side effect. ARGH!

So.... is there ANYONE here that has taken it and had this as a side effect? I know some girls here took it... did the anxiety go away? Am I in for a long month and probably wont continue treatment?

Seriously, I hope I dont regret this! I am slightly chilling out more because I took my percocet, now Im just itchy. That I can deal with, the anxiety.... not so much!

Talk to me!!! Experiences! In depth experiences! Damn I wish my female system wasn't so smurfed, lol

It's so twisted how our reproductive organs sometimes love to just be a complete pain in the arse. I know exactly how you feel with the cysts. I never EVER got period cramps, but low and behold my stomach would run a temp and I would be doubled over in pain from a cyst. Try not to dwell on possible side effects because you can trick yourself into thinking you have them (my b/f does this with everything so I just tell him what the meds are supposed to do and leave out the S.E. unless he starts to show any). I hope the Lupron works for you  .

Quoting Becca Clontz:" It's so twisted how our reproductive organs sometimes love to just be a complete pain in the arse. I ... [snip!] ... him what the meds are supposed to do and leave out the S.E. unless he starts to show any). I hope the Lupron works for you  ."

I've always had hellish cramps... my uterus is smurfed (thanks to my Mom, lol, she has a weird system too. I was told at 12 I'd never have kids. TADA at 19 I had Lily WHILE using condoms, lol!)

This is what I've gone through the past few years:
-Started bleeding from fist sized clots. I have big clots from my period anyways so I thought "Hmm.... maybe this is a heavy period." It got worse and worse and when I got to the doctor he immediately checked my iron and almost hospitalized me. I was SEVERELY anemic and it was impacting my breathing. The only reason I was allowed to remain at home was because my parents said they wouldnt leave me at home alone. I was doubling up on pads and soaking through them in an hour or less. I ruined so many pairs of clothes. I had to have surgery to correct that.
-I developed cysts, and had them drained. Hurt like a mothertrucker. Didnt work, they came back.
-I had surgery to remove the cysts, and again, it didn't work.
-I've had an MRI of ovaries
-Ive tried numerous medication for my cysts... none of them have impacted the cysts at all.
-In addition to cysts, I've had a migraine disorder and have had two MRI's of my brain, two CT scans. Numerous medications for that too. It was trial and error to find a medication to keep my headaches at bay.
-Ive had two spinal taps for my migraines

And now we are putting me into menopause. If this doesnt work... we are back to square one. OH,... I was also drugged about 7 years ago and lost my short term memory. I had a classified brain injury, had CT scans, MRI's, and meds from that too.

My body smurfing hates me, lol!


I've chilled out though, I took a pain pill and I think it relaxed me enough where I'm not so anxious. Hopefully tomorrow is better!

Wow! That's a lot to be going through. I was told the same thing about not being able to have kids...makes you think lol. Have they told you to take iron supplements or anything like that? Sometimes just taking a supplement every day will at least help with the periods being heavy. It did for mine anyway (anemic here too lol), can't hurt to take it since they said you're anemic anyway. I started at like 40mg or mcg (i can't remember) and that helped a great deal for over a year then my cycles started acting weird or so i thought (turned out i was pregnant). It really helped with the cysts too and I'm not sure why lol.

Quoting Becca Clontz:" Wow! That's a lot to be going through. I was told the same thing about not being able to have kids...makes ... [snip!] ... acting weird or so i thought (turned out i was pregnant). It really helped with the cysts too and I'm not sure why lol. "

I have iron on hand, but im not anemic. I get checked often to make sure Im not. Make sure you dont take your iron with milk... calcium can block the absorption or iron! I dont drink milk but thats what they told me to be careful of when I was taking them. But I keep them on hand in case I become anemic again.