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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...

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tiredgirl25
tiredgirl25

Hi all, I posted on here a few days ago about having my first panic attack, feeling overwhelmed with anxiety and insomnia. I talked to my doctor and we made a few medication changes. Since these are new to me Im wondering what other people's experiences are with them. She prescribed me clonazepam 2x a day and I believe this really helped, but I only took one last night so I cant say for sure. She also prescibed seroquel for sleep. I took one of these last night and while it made me feel completely wiped, it wasnt in a good way. I felt over tired and confused. Is seroquel something my body will need to adjust to? Having insomnia my body tends to fight anything that will lead me towards sleep. So that is also part of the problem. Any tips or suggestions are welcome!

viclove2020
viclove2020
Hi,
I can relate. I’ve been in the position where I want to sleep but my body keeps fighting it. I want to sleep naturally without the help of drugs.

With most prescriptions it’s a trial and error type of deal. You have to give it a chance to see how your body reacts to it.

Drugs help but they also mask the problem. We have to figure out what’s causing the anxiety/panic and deal with that.

Breathing exercises, meditation, yoga, therapy, listening to sleep stories on the “Calm” ap helped me a bit. Also definitely stay away from caffeine, alcohol, nicotine. That will make it worse
arfie
arfie
I be clueless on the meds, but have lived the yuckery of my body fighting anything which might lead me to sleep. Not even the now illegal pharmaceutical justies were able to jump that hurdle for me.

My therapy journal was my breakthrough on that psycho snot knot. Allowing myself to scribble free-form train of thought about my anxieties of the day eased the knots and eventually grew into the most powerful sleep aid in my medicine chest.
rizinup
rizinup
I would say the best med for anxiety. I would start with a 1/2 pill. Very strong. Happy trails.
zodiak
zodiak
I think seroquel is a pretty strong antidepressant. I would stay away from it unless you need it, but not just for sleep. Clonzapam , good choice to help you sleep. But I would only say on as needed basis, pretty sure it’s addictive.
hyperpgal
hyperpgal
I've never taken seroquel--but have take klonopin--I took it for a few yrs a while back and I have a pretty good resistance to it--it just takes the edge off for me right now. when I first took it, it was heaven--the doc prescribed 3 pills a day and I would just take one-otherwise I probably would have been drooling! lol...I remember driving somewhere that always caused me anxiety-and I was like "wow--this must be what its like for normal people" nothing stressed me! klonopin is addictive--and hard to get off of-so keep that in mind.
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