Posted by Spriggy on January 25, 2005, at 18:23:45
I've had panic attacks off and on for a few years. The very first one was caused my a reactino to Compazine.. I know it was the medication- my doctor actually documented it as being a reaction (it was about 20 minutes after it was administered).
I had one other attack a year later (out of the blue in my sleep) and they subsided for another year.
Now, my father was in the hospital and dying, I believe I was experiencing Post Traumatic Stress but anyway, my doctor wanted me to try Ativan and Lexapro.
The Ativan sent me into an immediate panic state- I thought for sure I was dying. It was 1 mg. so I don't know if the dose was too high or if I just react strongly to meds..I spent 3 days after that, not eating, sleeping, or functioning whatsoever. I felt a strange head fog, like I was not real or in a tunel. It was very disturbing.
It went away.
I've now been on Lexapro for 4 weeks (low dose only 5 mg's) and I notice I can go from feeling absolutely great (almost euphoric) to that really weird, head fog feeling (like I did with the Ativan) and end up in the deepest, darkest, depression I've ever experienced in all my life.
I am not a depressed person and didn't even start taking this for depression and now after one month, I'm experiencing serious depression. To the point that today, I ended up in the corner of the floor in a ball begging God to let me die.
Any ideas if this medicine is doing something strange to my brain? I almost feel as if I am going crazy or losing my mind.
It's just strange.
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