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  1. ‘Ozempic breath’ sparks questions as users report strange side effect

    Those taking GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) medications for diabetes and weight loss often experience gastrointestinal symptoms – but some…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Medication #badbreath #fishysmell #gastrointestinalsymptoms #Health #medicationsfordiabetes #sideeffects
    newsbeep.com/us/636523/

  2. RE: fairdinkum.one/@John/116247141

    The day after the #shingles shot & my arm is swollen, sore & very hot.

    The 2nd shot is supposed to be much more re:#SideEffects. Something to look forward to.💉

    Oh & since my 2022 spinal surgery, I’ve lost 33kg!!!

    I haven’t been trying to #loseWeight, I guess that since the surgery & despite some bad days, I’ve been more active?

    Or I put on so much weight in the years leading up to the surgery due to the constant pain & my idiot doctor at the time ignoring me telling him something was wrong.

  3. CW: Musings over ADHD med combo; briefly mentions RSD, disgust reflex, and suspected ARFID

    NGL, it's honestly kinda funny to us that there was such resistance to the very concept of us taking a combination of meds to help us with our ADHD (tecnically AuDHD) struggles, given that the meds don't have any known negative interactions and actually cancel out some of the negatives of each other 😅

    e.g.,

    Lisdexamfetamine (Elvanse®)

    • Insomnia or disturbed sleep
    • Increased blood pressure
    • Increased pulse

    Guanfacine (Intuniv®)

    • Drowsiness
    • Decreased blood pressure
    • Decreased pulse

    We're up to 4 mg of guanfacine nightly now (as of Monday), alongside 60 mg lisdex (split across 2 x 30 mg doses, taken ~2 hours apart) daily.

    Aside from some minor titration issues whilst our body has been getting used to the introduction of guanfacine, we've found it is beginning to help with sleep and has noticeably helped lower our blood pressure and pulse.

    It's also having the pleasant effects of reducing baseline anxiety, which is a key component of our Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), and lowering our disgust reflex, which became more prominent during the summer and which we think is a major factor in the increasing ARFID-like symptoms we experienced (and are still trying to recover from).

    Unlike with SSRIs or SNRIs, it doesn't make us feel numb or unable to feel sad. That makes sense, as it's basically selectively blocking some alpha-2A adrenergic receptors, which in turn is decreasing activity within our sympathetic nervous system.

    If we continue to do well at 4 mg, we'll probably ask to remain there, rather than trial going higher, as 4 mg seems to be the sweet spot for a lot of folks, and is the max dose of a single pill. We could in theory try up to 7 mg, but we're not in a rush there.

    #guanfacine #lisdexamfetamine #ADHD #AuDHD #anxiety #RSD #ARFID #SideEffects #neurodivergent #neurospicy

  4. How to select relevant items for monitoring? Case example of a pragmatic process for mapping immune checkpoint inhibitor #SideEffects to items from existing item libraries ( #CTCAE #EORTC #FACIT )
    jpro.springeropen.com/articles

    #HRQL #JPRO #PatientCentered #PatientReported #ePRO