Posted by CharlesRX on May 5, 2012, at 1:31:23
Hi!
I've look all over this boards for info about amisulpride experiences and evaluations for anxiety: social and/or generalized.
All I could find were reports on its effectiveness for dysthimia and/or depression.
I've been suffering from debilitating anxiety all my life (I'm 24). I know because I have never had any close friends, many acquaintances, but no close friends, plus I have selective mutism and panic attacks on social situations, and my heart races and I sweat just by anticipating going out of my house (but I'm not completely agoraphobic though).
I've been on zoloft, effexor, pristiq, prozac, luvox, wellbutrin, lexapro, remeron and strattera.
After that last one my psychiatrist told me we had run out of options with the modern and mainstream ones and we were trying tryciclics, so he put me on amitryptiline, but it made sleep 24 hrs the first day, it wasn't doing absolutely nothing after that so I gave up with AD, then he gave me Buspar, but didn't worked either. Neither did any antihistaminic (too many to list or even recall). Never had any side effects or withdrawal, AD's just didn't do nothing, they are like sugar pills for me.
Benzos worked wonders but couldn't stop because I became physically dependent on them and when I finally quit (cold turkey) I had severe withdrawal for about 4 months:
3 psychotic breaks, depersonalization, terror attacks, paranoia, headaches, muscle aches and cramps, diahrrea, nausea and vomiting, anorexia (lose 20 kg during those 4 months), spells of uncontrollable laughter, severe shaking and sweating and insomnia: stood awake for 50 hrs each time then passing out 2 hrs and then staying awake another 50.
I've seen 6 therapists, but half of them gave up on me, and I gave up on the other half after much time.
The only thing that ever worked for me was Lyrica, but at high doses (1200mg) but after a year it just simply stopped working, and hasn't ever since, not even pushing the dose further up.
About antipsychotics, I've been on risperdal, zyprexa, nosinan and geodon, but those drugs are just plain evil and refused treatment after the zyprexa made me gain 20 kg (was 70, now I weight 90) which I never lose again.
So I'm thinking about amisulpride, but I haven't heard much about its potential for anxiety. I only know it's advisable to start with 50mgs but got so many other questions: How does it feel when it works? Is it true the lower the dose, the better it feels for anxious people like me? How long should I wait to start feeling the positive effects? If I don't, should I lower the dose even more? How much of anxiolysis does it provide on a benzo based scale (only anxiolytics that I know and truly worked for me): %70 of a regular valium dose? %80 of a 2mg dose of klonopin?
Thanks for taking part of your time to read me, and to reply.
Any help will be really really appreciated. Thanks in advance.
CharlesRX.
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