Splitting Headache After Therapy!

[Cool Cat]

My shrink didn't really offer me a reason as I ask him about medical stuff a lot and he says he'd rather I ask a doctor.

Anyone got any ideas?

And on a side note...what are your most annoying post therapy symptoms?

Mine:
HEADACHES!!
A really deep sleep that means you sleep in and are late to work
Dizziness (My T never lets me out dizzy though)
Being quite spaced out

 

[ghotiff]

Can't get to sleep. New disturbing thoughts keep me awake.

 

[GWhizz]

I think psychiatrists are sometimes so long out of the medical field they don't want to give you the wrong answer when it comes to physical symptoms.

When I quit my meds cold turkey I got really bad flank pain and read online that it was probably my adrenal glands as it's a common withdrawal symptoms. My joints also became really sore which is also related. When I brought it up with my psych he had never even heard of it and looked at me like I had four heads. Needless to say, I don't bother with him when it comes to those things anymore.

I guess your symptoms are more anxiety-related though so I'm not sure why he wouldn't try exploring them with you a bit.

Oh and my symptoms after therapy include panic, SI, dissociation and ocd-overdrive! Yes, I'm beginning to think this new therapist is not helping me at all...

 

[Hope4Now]

Headaches? I get them too. Only in the past few months though. They're not bad ones...just vague. I like to think it is my brain rewiring itself. It does worry me a bit though because it has become pretty consistent. But I'm supposed to make an appointment with a neurologist anyway, so I'll ask about it then. It would be terribly ironic if after all this time in therapy for PTSD I found out that I have Multiple Sclerosis. Or a brain tumor. :wideeyed:

Other symptoms after therapy...
lots of derealization, depersonalization, shutdown. I'm used to it now. It's part of my pattern. It used to take me more than an hour of collapse (usually in the stairwell or the bathroom floor). I count it progress that most of the time now I can make it to my car within 25 minutes. And then I sit there for a while until I feel ready to drive.

I'm exhausted when I get home. I used to have to go back to work after one of my weekly appointments, and that was very hard. Now I just come home and let myself lie down and space out or sleep.

 

[ghotiff]

I realised today while thinking about this thread .. And I'm not sure if this is good or bad. .. But with my first T I had extreme responses post therapy and it was a disaster. ... comparatively I have very little negative after session responses from my current T.

Maybe I'm not pushing hard enough, maybe im pushing the perfect amount?