I believe that I am new to this discussion. Reading through some of the responses to different medications has me wondering.
I have been on three or four different antidepressant/anxiety treating medications.
Ascendin... just made me tired and cranky, supposed to help with general/clinical depression (diagnosed years before an anxiety disorder) Detoxed ok, no bad effects, and actually seemed better without the meds. Soon, I realised that I needed more time without medication to see how bad off I was, really. It took seven years to see that anxiety was something that really needed to be worked on. I thought it was my imagination... saw my OB/Gyn and my former GP and was Rx'd Prozac- see below.
Prozac... worked for a while, but too many side effects. Took myself off of the medication, bad choice.
Paxil... worked very well, thought that THIS would be THE medication for me. My doctor kept upping my dosage and once I hit like 60mg, the GP decided that it was time to try another medication.
Effexor ( I think this is what the name was)... this was ok I guess, but had no notable effects on my anxiety, day to day stuff. Made me worry that maybe I have become "immune" to all these meds.
Xanax... thinking this is my last hope, being afraid because my GP said that I need to use my descretion as to how high my dosage goes. I'm at like 2 mg a day, scared out of my mind because I think I'm becoming a Xanax junkie. Then tonight, reading through a few books... this is normal. Some people actually get up to ten mg a day. Wow, I think to myself. but will I actually get up to this high a dosage??? I am freaking out over this.
I am going in this week to verify that this really is OK. I want to be sure because I really don't want to be on this forever. I'd like to try other meds, but am not sure what I should think.
Any feedback... krykit@hotmail.com
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