What medication helped relieve your anxiety?

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I am at my wits end. Have been diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder. I constantly have a pit in my stomach and butterflies. It causes me to be very socially anxious as well. Upset stomach, loss of appetite- so many horrible symptoms.

I have been on so many different meditations I have lost track.

I have decided to renew my efforts at tackling the anxiety. It is no way to live. Going to restart therapy and stick with it.

Please share what medications worked for you. Have an appointment booked with my old psychiatrist

Mine was peri related but HRT not an option. Sertaline has pretty much cured it, avoiding alcohol and meditation also helps

I take Citalopram (40mg), Propanolol (80mg) and Mirtazipine (15mg).

Had severe anxiety since I was a young child.

It’s mostly controlled now.

I’m also diagnosed with ASC, ADHD and OCD.

Sertraline works well for me.

Duloxetine was like switching off my anxiety tap.

Sertaline works for me. But I have the maximum dose. I've also got out alcohol and caffeine

Sertraline

Therapy (CBT, talking therapy), mediation, going on a big stompy walk, gardening (digging a big hole or chopping something down is especially good)

I hope you feel better soon xxx

Venlaflaxine has helped me after a cancer diagnosis and hot flushes also

I won't take SSRI anti depressants because of a very long story but I'm on mirtazapine and I'm a new woman.

Trazodone

I believe I was on venlaxfine with Mirtazapine if I’m not mistaken. It didn’t really do much. Pregablin helps when I am first put on it but my body very quickly adjusts.

Citalopram 20mg for me, I tried sertraline but it made me feel a lot worse (I probably didn't give it long enough tbh)

Lorazepam and clonazepam

Same for me. I’m can’t believe the difference. Very few things trigger my anxiety now, and I have gone from worrying about everything all the time, to the extent I couldn’t sleep, to being super chilled and relaxed.

Paroxetine

Paroxetine

Ativan aka Lorazepam. The first time I took one, the sense of utter fear and dread that had been constant for years, just went away. It was a sunny day, I walked to my local park for the first time in 7 years and sat on a bench. I felt OK. I also thought, 'no drug should be so effective, this stuff must be fantastically addictive' so I rationed it's use. I think its been withdrawn now.

Duloxetine and nortryptaline

Try this.

There's a book and audio book as well as the app

Mainly free (you can pay for stuff on the app, I dont)

Sertraline 150mg. But....it took ages to actually work, I stuck with it and I am a new woman (for the last 10 years!).

Started on 50, then increased slowly to my current dose.

I had all your symptoms for years until I started drawing. I love to sit and draw late at night and I have the most amazing night's sleep afterwards. I find I am now so calm that I don't need medication.

Oh so it’s not available now?

Sertraline and propranolol

It's opioid family and highly addictive.

Knocking booze, pasta and bread (still ate complex carbs) on the head and focusing on high protein, high fat diet and loads of water and walking. Took two weeks for me to notice a difference. Lost 10kg too. HRT also helped.

I've taken sertraline since my son was born 5 years ago, also have anxiety and then had pnd, I finally came of it for a year last year and was doing loads better but then my dad died and I spiraled again, went back on it and within a week I was feeling better