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Re: why didn't they prescribe this 10 years ago? » linkadge

Posted by SLS on November 30, 2010, at 0:01:55

In reply to why didn't they prescribe this 10 years ago?, posted by linkadge on November 29, 2010, at 19:49:32

> Please mind the language but.....
>
> I can't even think why the f*ck I've spent the past 10 years of my life on a *repeated* SSRI merry-go-round, will such *marginal* anti-anxiety effects? Why in the f*ck wasn't I just prescribed a benzodiazapine? I do not find the clonazepam anywhere NEAR as mind warping as the SSRIs. I am finally coming to the realization that my core issue has been ANXIETY - not depression.
>
> I have been completely preventing the weekly cyclic insomnia (usually 3+ nights a week)
>
> Currently on 2.5mg of amitriptyline and 0.125mg of clonazepam (1/4 of a 0.5). I can taper off this by the end of the week and I have no noticable withdrawl. On the contrary, coming off even 2.5mg of lexapro send me into a spiral of pure maddness.
>
> These medications kill the anxiety and do not produce anhedonia (like the SSRIs did). I'm sleeping better than I have in a decade - through the entire night - not waking up every 15 minutes, 40 times a night like on SSRIs.
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> I wake up refreshed, with plans, ideas and the capacity to feel pleasure - not a complete zombie, who feels like that past 8 hours has been more torture than rest.
>
> For a lot of people here, I think the core problem is **not being targeted very well**. If you're just being shoved on a high dose of SSRI (for me which just make anxiety and insomnia worse), then stop all the augmentation this/that crap and find a medication that hits the problem better.
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> I remember first starting on SSRIs (at the tender age of 17) and waiting through months of elevated anxiety, insomnia, akathesia, suicidality, apathy, you name it.
>
> If I had just been prescribed a good ol TCA plus a benzo, I would have been chipper again within a few days.


I understand the anger and frustration you must be feeling for having languished for so many years when the drugs that ultimately helped you were available before you were born.

Anxiety can drive depression. Depression can drive anxiety. Knowing the difference between the two might increase the odds of finding a successful treatment more quickly.


- Scott


Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.

 

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