Posted by chiron on March 1, 2008, at 10:45:53
In reply to PSYCHOSIS????? ANXIETY!!! OCD!!!HELP ME PLEASE!, posted by AMY II on February 27, 2008, at 23:16:10
Hi Amy, sorry for your pain.
I haven't had any of the weird visual problems, but I did have some weird neurological/ anxiety/ spacey/ in-another-world feelings. It started about a year ago after an emsam trial. I tapered off, and wasn't on any meds for about a week, then took a small dose of neurontin. That night I felt a little strange. Then next night I was driving home & started feel like I had little control over my muscles. I stopped the neurontin. Over the next week the spacey & weird feelings got worse. Sometimes I wondered if I would be able to drive to work. Then I went home early because the "weird" feelings were getting intense. I don't know how to describe them, but they were uncomfortable & scary. They continued to get worse & when my hands clenched & I couldn't move them I went to the ER. They gave me xanax, said I should talk to my dr. about getting an MRI, and let me go.
I wondered if I had MS, Epilepsy, etc. I have more sympathy for those diseases & parkinsons. My MRI was normal. My anxiety was increasing, and was worse in the morning. I always woke up at 5:30 with it racing. I would go jogging, which didn't help. My stomach was anxious & nauseaus. I hated the in-between sleep stage because I had other "weird" awful feelings. I was worse pre-menstrually.
Xanax definitely helped, especially the long-acting one. But what actually I think helped more is taking birth control. I was afraid to take it because I have had bad experiences before, but I wanted to try again to even out my hormone fluctuations. A few days after starting Yaz I calmed a little, and after a week or two I had improved somewhat. I started not waking up @ 5:30, etc. So for about 6 months now I haven't had those extreme problems. Still deal with depression, and still take 2mg of long-acting Xanax. My hormones aren't completely stable, but they are getting better. I am on Yasmin now.So, I just thought I would tell my story and that maybe hormones would help. I also would have a strange back of my throat, neck tingling that would be associated with these weird feelings. It was definitely a weird neurological thing, but hormones all play into it. (for me I swear it was the small dose of neurontin that was a factor in the trigger, but dr.'s don't see how that would cause it)
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