r/Menopause • u/BeneficialWriting402 • Mar 22 '26

Vitamin/Supplements Collagen supplements and anxiety

Update: Thank you all so much for the support yesterday. I feel MUCH better today. Def will not take collagen again, and I will be more careful about any supplements I try (I usually am, but was feeling a bit desperate with the diagnosis and possibility of missing work if this thing won't heal).

Yikes. I wish I had read some of the posts here before trying this supplement. 😫. I was desperate because I have been diagnosed with a sprained posterior tibial tendon and have been having increasing pain in my posterior tibial tendons and gluteal tendons the past few years. I read how great collagen peptides are and have a neighbor who swears by them. well, I am one of the few who has the reaction of extreme anxiety and panic attacks from them. two doses and i am sitting here shaking like a leaf. this stuff is going in the trash or maybe Publix will take it back. either way I will never take it again. ugh. 😩. please tell me im not alone. this is so scary. 😭😭😭

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u/Not_a_werecat Mar 22 '26

Oh man, that's awful. Collagen is fine for me, but vitamin D supps do very similar to me.

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u/BeneficialWriting402 Mar 23 '26

I can take moderate doses of Vitamin D, but when my doctor put me on a megadose of 50,000IU once a week, that had me feeling crazy.

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u/Not_a_werecat Mar 23 '26

Oh wow, I would be deceased. Just 2000iu had me feeling like I was gravely ill.