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...
Your anxiety?
And does it help?
Such as meds, supplements, other therapies?
I've had anxiety most all my life and was prescribed cymbalta from
Early 2000's to 2011. Really wasn't ever monitored. Docs just kept writing for it. It was in 2011 when I didn't have my prescription for a few days did I find out the horrible withdraw this med has. I didn't want to be on a med with such terrible withdraws. Took me 3 attempts and a stay in a facilty to get off.
After the facilty, I was taking prn Klonipin and propranolol for awhile but ever y'all's stopped that. Kept with the prn Klonipin thinking it wouldn't cause addiction at a prn dose. Well, I've been doing that for 3 years now and I think, even though I was taking 0.25 mg maybe 4 times a week, I'm addicted because when I tried to stop, anxiety is way high.
My job and my family situation causes me a lot of anxiety. I'm trying to find another one and recently had to go on leave do to the anxiety. I see patients and I just could not concentrate. The patients I see have very sad situations which affect me.
So doc has convinced me to go back on an SSRI, lexapro. Not as potent as cymbalta. Well, I'm inly on day 3 and the anxiety is through the roof to the point where my doc is telling me to take the Klonipin regularly until the lexapro kicks in.
Something I'm having a hard time with is the fear of addiction.
How can I let go of that ?
And does it help?
Such as meds, supplements, other therapies?
I've had anxiety most all my life and was prescribed cymbalta from
Early 2000's to 2011. Really wasn't ever monitored. Docs just kept writing for it. It was in 2011 when I didn't have my prescription for a few days did I find out the horrible withdraw this med has. I didn't want to be on a med with such terrible withdraws. Took me 3 attempts and a stay in a facilty to get off.
After the facilty, I was taking prn Klonipin and propranolol for awhile but ever y'all's stopped that. Kept with the prn Klonipin thinking it wouldn't cause addiction at a prn dose. Well, I've been doing that for 3 years now and I think, even though I was taking 0.25 mg maybe 4 times a week, I'm addicted because when I tried to stop, anxiety is way high.
My job and my family situation causes me a lot of anxiety. I'm trying to find another one and recently had to go on leave do to the anxiety. I see patients and I just could not concentrate. The patients I see have very sad situations which affect me.
So doc has convinced me to go back on an SSRI, lexapro. Not as potent as cymbalta. Well, I'm inly on day 3 and the anxiety is through the roof to the point where my doc is telling me to take the Klonipin regularly until the lexapro kicks in.
Something I'm having a hard time with is the fear of addiction.
How can I let go of that ?
I was on lexapro for a short time but I'd experience pretty regular nightmares, I was sure that the lexapro was making them much worse. So I was recently weaned off of them. I have trouble sleeping so I decided to try over the counter sleeping pills, which can be addictive. I enjoy how they make me feel at night but I'm wary of addiction.
Now I kinda put up with the lack of sleep. My sister recently had a baby so now she's as much a contribution to my lack sleep as she is a beautiful bundled up distraction from everything else.
It isn't easy letting go of a fear, when you figure it out drop me a line :P
There are many people here who can help you through it though, always remember that.
I have found that anxiety is what happens when reality hits my bubble. it hurts, but unfortunately my bubble has to burst. I have to grow and expand and engulf reality like a superamoeba. I have to become bigger. And the attacks, if I go through them without wrecking anything, make me bigger.