deal with chronic pain anxiety and depression
The mental fog thing is what got me too, way before any joint relief showed up. Did the fog lift gradually for you or was it more of a sudden shift?
I'm down around 30 and the mood shift surprised me more than the joint stuff. The dread that used to sit on top of every bad pain day has thinned out some, though I honestly can't untangle how much of that is the med versus just carrying less weight around.
The mood shift caught me off guard too, though mine went the other way for the first few weeks before it settled. Did the fog lifting happen gradually for you or all at once?
the brain fog lifting was the first thing I noticed too, way before any joint stuff changed. Did the mood shift hold steady for you or come and go in waves?
the mental fog thing is what got me too, and it showed up before the scale moved much. Weirdly my sleep got worse for a few weeks before it settled, did you notice anything like that early on?
My anxiety actually got louder before it calmed down, so that first month was confusing. Did the mood shift come before or after the joint pain eased up for you?
Did your mood shift come before or after the pain eased? Mine trailed the joint relief by a few weeks and I'm still not sure which caused which.
My anxiety always spiked on flare days, and that eased once my joints weren't carrying as much. The head stuff came later for me than the pain side, maybe two months in
Only 13 down so far but my knees already complain less on stairs, and I get what you mean about the fog - I stopped dreading mornings around week six or so. Seems like the mood lift tends to show up once the joints get a break, which is encouraging this early.
The joint relief is the part I didn't expect. My knees stopped narrating every staircase and my head got quieter right along with them.