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...
hi, I would like your opinion as to what is going on with me. I have had anxiety attacks for about 5 years now and the first one came out of the blue when I was driving my kids and I to meet my sister and my nephews for a day of fun. I was put on Citalopram for about 2 years and it did wonders for me. I would have panic attacks but they were no were near as often. I felt pretty good, than my body must have gotten used to the medication because I was having more and more panic attacks.
So in the end of February I had my marina taken out and they couldn't get a new one back in so my dr. talked me into getting the Depo shot instead. my dr. also put me on Esotalopram. That very night I had a massive panic attack, I don't know if it was from the shot or just a stressful day? But about a week later I started waking up feeling very anxious and nervous and sweaty and I would throw up. Normally I have a panic attacks and they go, I am not always nervous. So after about a week of this and realizing that I didn't have a bug, I called the dr. and told her that I didn't think that the medicine was helping because I am sick all the time and feeling nervous and anxious all the time. So she put me on Effexor and things still were not improving for me, so I went to a place called partial hospital, which is an outpatient CBT group. I was able to see a physiologist there and she raised the Effexor from 37.5 mg to 75 mg, and then up to 150 mg with very little improvement.
I am in my last day of weaning off of Effexor and tomorrow I start a generic form of Zoloft 100 mg. I am still waking up with the same symptoms, I am unable to eat in the mornings because of my stomach so I drink protein shakes. I can only go in and see my psychologist about every 5 weeks and the only other person I can see regularly is my therapist. My therapist says I'm in such an acute state of anxiety that I should be seeing my psychologist more often but I can't do that because she is so busy. So my therapist recommended that I see a medical doctor to help me get through this because she said a lot of her patients who are like me are seeing there drs. about once a week. She recommended a dr. I should see who knows a lot about mental health so I make an appt. and then I had a very bad weekend so my husband said he was going to call the clinic first thing Monday morning to try to get me in sooner, well they recommended my usual dr. because she knows my history, which I get, so the nurse said she would talk to my dr. and then we should be able to get in right away to see her, so they call him back and tell him there is nothing they can do for me and that I need to go to the crisis center in another town, which I already went to the crisis center for a few days at the end of April and they talk to you 2 times a day for maybe 5 minutes at time and they can't change your medication, they are basically just there to babysit you and make sure you don't hurt yourself, otherwise they left you alone to your own devices they didn't do anything to occupy your mind or anything, so needless to say that place did me no good so why would I go back?
Sorry this is so long, but it has been a long journey for me so far and it doesn't seem like I have made much progress. So my questions for you are: Do you think that there could be something physically wrong with me seeing's how I still am so sick everyday? Do you think the Depot shot messed with my hormones and is making me feel this way? What would you do if you were me? should I insist that I get into to see the medical dr. that knows about the mental side of things? I value all of your opinions and at this point I really need to hear it. Thank you so much.
So in the end of February I had my marina taken out and they couldn't get a new one back in so my dr. talked me into getting the Depo shot instead. my dr. also put me on Esotalopram. That very night I had a massive panic attack, I don't know if it was from the shot or just a stressful day? But about a week later I started waking up feeling very anxious and nervous and sweaty and I would throw up. Normally I have a panic attacks and they go, I am not always nervous. So after about a week of this and realizing that I didn't have a bug, I called the dr. and told her that I didn't think that the medicine was helping because I am sick all the time and feeling nervous and anxious all the time. So she put me on Effexor and things still were not improving for me, so I went to a place called partial hospital, which is an outpatient CBT group. I was able to see a physiologist there and she raised the Effexor from 37.5 mg to 75 mg, and then up to 150 mg with very little improvement.
I am in my last day of weaning off of Effexor and tomorrow I start a generic form of Zoloft 100 mg. I am still waking up with the same symptoms, I am unable to eat in the mornings because of my stomach so I drink protein shakes. I can only go in and see my psychologist about every 5 weeks and the only other person I can see regularly is my therapist. My therapist says I'm in such an acute state of anxiety that I should be seeing my psychologist more often but I can't do that because she is so busy. So my therapist recommended that I see a medical doctor to help me get through this because she said a lot of her patients who are like me are seeing there drs. about once a week. She recommended a dr. I should see who knows a lot about mental health so I make an appt. and then I had a very bad weekend so my husband said he was going to call the clinic first thing Monday morning to try to get me in sooner, well they recommended my usual dr. because she knows my history, which I get, so the nurse said she would talk to my dr. and then we should be able to get in right away to see her, so they call him back and tell him there is nothing they can do for me and that I need to go to the crisis center in another town, which I already went to the crisis center for a few days at the end of April and they talk to you 2 times a day for maybe 5 minutes at time and they can't change your medication, they are basically just there to babysit you and make sure you don't hurt yourself, otherwise they left you alone to your own devices they didn't do anything to occupy your mind or anything, so needless to say that place did me no good so why would I go back?
Sorry this is so long, but it has been a long journey for me so far and it doesn't seem like I have made much progress. So my questions for you are: Do you think that there could be something physically wrong with me seeing's how I still am so sick everyday? Do you think the Depot shot messed with my hormones and is making me feel this way? What would you do if you were me? should I insist that I get into to see the medical dr. that knows about the mental side of things? I value all of your opinions and at this point I really need to hear it. Thank you so much.
A. Yes. Do you have any other physical symptoms, maybe long-standing ones? Joint pain, etc.?
Q. Do you think the Depo shot messed with my hormones and is making me feel this way?
A. Yes. I think its likely because I have read posts by other women who had the Depo shot and also reported increased anxiety.
Q. What would you do if you were me?
A. I would keep treating the anxiety to the best of my ability, stop the Depo, find some other tolerable form of birth control, and try to figure out if I have some underlying physical cause for the anxiety.
Q. Should I insist that I get in to see the medical doctor that knows about the mental side of things?
A. It couldnt hurt and might help, so if you can afford it, why not?
I am presuming that your GP is a good enough doctor that he/she has been running blood and other tests to verify that there isn't something wrong with you physically? If that's the case, mental and emotional, is what we have left. You are very anxious and manic-y. Unless this therapist is able to write prescriptions, you definitely need to see a psychiatric professional. An Internist, however good they are, are not going too be as versed and up-to-date with current treatments as a psych doctor will be.
There are some times when a person goes to a specialist in a particular field. This is one of those times.
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You should also get a complete physical and have a complete lab work done on you to check for other possible conditions that may be occurring. Good luck and keep us posted on how you feeling. I hope you feel better soon. Hang in there and don't let the docs bully you into taking aantidepressants if that turns out to be what your body is not tolerating. The benzo's are very effective in trating GAD and has practically no side effects. As far as habit forming the antidepressant are also habit forming with tons of side effects.However they do work extremely well for many people.