Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
Ive been on 200mg of setraline for 2 weeks but a month before that i had increased every two weeks starting at 100 and then to 150.
Starting this weekend, I noticed I was feeling a bit better. I have been taking .5xanax every night to sleep and usually just get about 5-6 hours but I finally started to fall back asleep after waking up after 5 hours and actually sleeping in and hitting the snooze button which i was so happy about! but then i didnt take xanax one night bc i remember last week not having to take it bc I was so tired and had a few glasses of wine and it put me right to sleep.
But Monday night, I didn't take the xanax and had a hard time sleeping, Was so tired all Tuesday and my psych prescribed seroquel which if used at a high dose is for bipolar but at a low dose is for sleep. I'm so scared to take it. I feel like i need to give my body a break and let it adjust to the 200mg before introducing another medication.
I've been taking .5 xanax for 2 weeks and initially my psych said it was ok to take and just take it as needed for the month and not to worry about getting addicted. So i dont know why she all of the sudden wants me to take seroquel. Seems like an intense medication to take just to reset sleep/mood when I'm already taking 200mg and have only been on that dose for 2 weeks.
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Zoloft, make sure to stay hydrated. Easier to fall asleep naturally being hydrated.
Keeping a journal will help you notice all the details involved with changes.
Best wishes!
The sleep thing is really getting to me.
I finally started to sleep better and so much longer w the Xanax prob bc sertraline started to kick in but that night I didn’t take any of it, I toss and turned and now my sleep is back to messed up again:-(
Which affects my anxiety/depression. Oy what a circuitous mess :-((
I can’t remember if my insomnia lasted this long the last time I had to increase my Zoloft....