Consultant blaming failed meds on me.

[orangeandlemons]

I have had awful anxiety since Jan.

Have been on various meds all of which I have made aniety worse, or made me suicidal, and I wasn't even depressed.

"I have never know anyone have all these side effects, it can't all be medication"

Been on 4 different ones. None have worked against anxiety and two have made it worse.

Told me to come off all of them to get a baseline. I have been off work since Jan. Don't know what the fuck to do

I was told that too.
Its rubbish.
Lots of people have very very significant side effects to AD's.
To be honest - I dont think the plan to come off everything to get a baseline is actually necessarily a bad idea.
In the long term.... I think the thing that has probably helped me is thinking of the solution as a 'basket' of different things rather than one thing solving it all.
So a bit of diet, bit of exercise, bit of cbt, bit of medication, bit of relaxation exercises, but if self help books etc etc etc.
And I also set myself a little mantra. 'Im doing this to just try and improve things by 10%.' Took the pressure away from one thing being the be all and end all.
Take care.

How long did it take? I have been off work for sooooooooo long . I don't think it's a bad idea in a way to come of them, but I was in a bad state when I went off sick (and it was work related) 4 months down the line, nothing has changed. I have to feel brave enough to go back to work, and don't know how to do this wihout ad's.

My Gp is lovely, much better than consultant, but I feel so needy (and I'm not normally) when I go and see her.

Hi sorry - my note was probably a bit confusing. I didnt mean that you do it without ads. Just get back to baseline - because it sounds at the moment that its difficult to tell what is actually anxiety and what is side effects.

If the issue was work related initially - is that problem now sorted?