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Re: Best Medication for Derealizing » SLS

Posted by Prefect on November 7, 2016, at 19:34:17

In reply to Re: Best Medication for Derealizing » Prefect, posted by SLS on November 7, 2016, at 7:30:36

Interesting questions Scott, but I have an odd history that's baffled me for 20 years. I'm 47 and have never had an event I consider traumatic enough to cause this condition. This condition itself is the most traumatic thing that's ever happened to me.

1997-I was 27 I came down with a mysterious illness. The only thing blood tests showed was VERY elevated liver enzymes, but no jaundice, and tested negative for all hepatitis viruses. It just felt like a bad hangover, but in one week developed into balance problems, dizziness, mental fogginess, memory problems, week high pulse, night sweats, bad sleep, and strange GI symptoms. Also had my first panic attacks that week. I did not have a mental illness until that week. Liver enzymes settled and stayed down after a few months. The mental problems have stayed. I have agoraphobia, panic disorder, and just recently began 'zonking out' from anxiety and realized in 1997 half the time I thought I had brain fogged I was in fact derealizing from severe anxiety but due to my lack of experience with anxiety I didn't know what it was.

Internist at the time diagnosed me with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and put me on 25 mg Luvox. Over the years I've begun doubting this diagnosis, since I have immense exercise tolerance and hardly any body fatigue. My HEAD though, and my sleep, have never felt the same as they did before that week. I've since got a career and a marriage under my belt, the latter of which recently broke down mainly due to my emotional problems and irritability I've had since 1997. Over the last 2 decades I've upped my doze to 100 mg to help with this, but most of it I've been handling with exercise and self-implemented exposure therapy.

I am convinced my mental state is due to an organic event but haven't yet got to the bottom of what it is. Lately I had a sleep study done to see if Sleep Apnea could have been causing all this, though I have no idea how they'll diagnose me since I hardly got any real sleep in that stupid lab. They'll tell me the results in a couple of weeks.

Thanks for reading this long story!


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