Posted by theconfusedone on October 23, 2009, at 21:49:02
In reply to the Confused one., posted by Meltingpot on October 22, 2009, at 5:25:20
> Hi,
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> I just wanted to say that my experience with Zyprexa is that it is great for taking away the physical feelings of anxiety and subsequent suicidal thoughts. For instance I felt totally crap yesterday morning, I felt like I had this pressure in my chest and head that wouldn't go away no matter what I did and my thoughts became solely focused on suicide to make the feelings go away. I think also though mixed in with the anxiety are these intense feelings of anger and irritability. I think after taking the Zyprexa although the physical symptoms go away the emotions are still there to some degree.
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> Today although I'm feeling much better physically (energy wise and mood to some degree) it doesn't take much to make me fly off the handle.
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> I'm glad the Zyprexa is helping you because the physical feelings of constant anxiety are hell. I also want to add that years ago when I started trying antidepressants again and they wouldn't work and exacerbated the anxiety I needed to take 10mg of Zyprexa, there is no way 2.5mg would have worked. So perhaps you could start of high and then slowly decrease the dose.
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> I'm like you Seroxat worked for me for about 2 years and then stopped in that the physical feelings of anxiety and depression came back. For the two years I was feeling better on seroxat, I started having piano lessons, started going out socialising, going on holidays etc. I'd swap 20 years of feeling like this for those two years any day.
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> Also, re the Zyprexa you should definately take it in the evening as it will just send you to sleep during the day.
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> Denise
Hi Denise, i just want to give you a brief description of what I've been taking. I was on 20mgs of lexapro for 4and a half years and doing fairly alright til I tapered down very slowly to nothing as I thought it was affecting my memory but little did I think my memory would get worse so I went back on them and all to no avail.
MY ANXIETY JUST SEEMED TO GET WORSE AND WOrse accompanied by depression,labido probblems etc. My psch put me on seroxet which causeed havoc to my brain and blood pressure and I really felt like taking my own life but they are gone out of my system now.(thankfully) Just left with lots of lexapro20mgs every second day..(I'm just waiting for the brain zaps which happen everyday as I think the doc is reducing them very quickly. I might just do it my way and taper to 15mg lexapro for a while untill he increase the Zirexa. Which hopefully will be in two weeks time.I have also decided to double the dose of the 5mgs that he told me take which will leave me short come the end of the month but should be enough to get to the shrink on the 27th and I try and get him to up them. They do really work but I feel I have to take them in the day to get the benefit or is this a psychological thing. I also have other addiction probablems with alchol and zanax which I've been clean for the last 4 and a half years with one minor slip in between. My Doc is the only understandin person and he changed this without the Shrink tellig him but the reality i my shrink doesn't give a damn..I'm also on zimovane7.5mg x 2 for sleep but they are not that great.sorry for the lenthy reply.
The confused one..
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