The dosage is way way too low for that to be the likely side effect. You are on a very low dosage for both drugs.
The body and brain are mysterious things. What could be happening is your anxiety about serotonin syndrome being a potential risk is causing your brain to interpret it as serotonin syndrome since you know that is a “side effect” (reality it’s at much higher doses). You know how people can experience a placebo effect of a placebo drug, the reverse can also happen in people with anxiety.
When you experience the symptoms under those conditions, the anxiety makes you jump to that conclusion which further spins you up emotionally taking your brain further down that path. I’m not saying what you are experiencing isn’t really, not even close - it’s very real. I don’t think it’s serotonin syndrome but more of an anxiety spiral you get into and you attribute it to that due to it being a very real potential side effect (at higher doses).
You should take your medications daily as written. Set alarms if you have to, missing doses have real impacts your life!
I stopped reading side effects due this happening. I only look it up if I honestly experience one. It’s cut down on side effects by 40%. Anxiety sucks and can end up becoming a self fulfilling prophecy. As a kid I got stomach aches and upset stomachs all the time. I was labeled “sensitive stomach” - no one dig deeper (it was back in the day). I honestly believed if my stomach got upset that it was a warning that something bad was going to happen. So anything remotely negative reinforced that belief. I rode that spiral many times. As an adult, I know that it was IBS and my anxiety caused it to flare up, which made my anxiety even worse, which made my stomach even worse and down the spiral I went. It was (and still is) a shitty self fulfilling prophecy.
Rumpelteazer45 t1_j2y68pi wrote
Reply to TIFU by mixing my medications and possibly giving myself serotonin syndrome by emptyempty0000
The dosage is way way too low for that to be the likely side effect. You are on a very low dosage for both drugs.
The body and brain are mysterious things. What could be happening is your anxiety about serotonin syndrome being a potential risk is causing your brain to interpret it as serotonin syndrome since you know that is a “side effect” (reality it’s at much higher doses). You know how people can experience a placebo effect of a placebo drug, the reverse can also happen in people with anxiety.
When you experience the symptoms under those conditions, the anxiety makes you jump to that conclusion which further spins you up emotionally taking your brain further down that path. I’m not saying what you are experiencing isn’t really, not even close - it’s very real. I don’t think it’s serotonin syndrome but more of an anxiety spiral you get into and you attribute it to that due to it being a very real potential side effect (at higher doses).
You should take your medications daily as written. Set alarms if you have to, missing doses have real impacts your life!
I stopped reading side effects due this happening. I only look it up if I honestly experience one. It’s cut down on side effects by 40%. Anxiety sucks and can end up becoming a self fulfilling prophecy. As a kid I got stomach aches and upset stomachs all the time. I was labeled “sensitive stomach” - no one dig deeper (it was back in the day). I honestly believed if my stomach got upset that it was a warning that something bad was going to happen. So anything remotely negative reinforced that belief. I rode that spiral many times. As an adult, I know that it was IBS and my anxiety caused it to flare up, which made my anxiety even worse, which made my stomach even worse and down the spiral I went. It was (and still is) a shitty self fulfilling prophecy.