Posted by Last Chance on May 28, 2006, at 21:07:40
In reply to Re: Best social anxiety meds? - Meds do work, posted by RobertDavid on May 28, 2006, at 19:52:43
Robert David - thank you for your post - I could easily identify with everything you said - I remember taking 60mgs of Valium the day I got married - it only lasted a year. The best drug ever for me was Nardil, but I only took it for about a year. The sexual side effects were the reason I quit. Social anxiety disorder really has ruined my life - I was a musician with great promise, but my extreme symptoms of anxiety finally caused me to throw in the towel over 30 years ago. Since then I have rarely played, and only while on Nardil, and Klonapin for performance night only, did I get out there on stage. Klonapin alone didn't do it, and I have spent the last year trying to get off it - now down to .125mg. Problem is, my life has only gotten worse during this time. I just started Emsam today - cut a 6mg in half. I have some Ambien and Xanax if the anxiety gets to be too much. May take off at bedtime. I just hate it that I can't take care of it myself, but that attitude, enhanced by a lot of "don't take meds" friends, has kept me from really living for all this time. Hell, I was a nervous, run away from social situations kid at age 5. Now 61, and not in the greatest health, I will try again, and I think I finally realize that I need the help of meds - they aren't perfect, or without problems, but I would like to get something happening again in my life. Richard
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