Posted by cab on November 10, 2002, at 17:34:37
I'm feeling incredibly horrible, with extreme agitation, feeling of terror constantly, extreme hopelessness, etc. I have a couple of questions -- 1) I've been on Paxil 20 mg for 3.5 weeks (after slowly moving up from 5 mg), and it wasn't helping my depression at all (which wasn't this bad until a couple of days ago). My pdoc now wants to try another 4 weeks with a higher dosage (up to 40 mg if I can handle it). Has anyone had an experience of not responding at all to a regular dose of paxil or another SSRI and then responding well to a higher dose?
2)Since this horrible horrible anxiety started a few days ago my pdoc put me on 10 mg zyprexa (benzos don't touch it). OK, I know it sounds dumb, but many of you have been in my position -- my other question is, WILL THIS GET BETTER? Is there any real chance it won't? I mean, do people ever stay like this forever? (Before this I had 2 completely happy, normal years.) If I thought this wouldn't change I would kill myself right now. So I just need some hope to hang onto. Any of your stories about feeling terrible and hopeless and feeling like it wold never end, and then getting better would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you so much.
poster:cab
thread:127175
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