FFS does ANYTHING work for anxiety?

[orangeandlemons]

Beacuse it damn well doesn't for me.

In Jan suffered stress and anxiety form work. Have been off since then. Was on 100mg amitriptilene when I went under.

Since then have been on a whole raft of ad's. ALL of which made me worse, much much worse, Crisis team intervention worse.

Failed ad's include: trazadone, imipramine, escitalopram, sertraline: all made anxiety terrible, or made me want to top myself. Even when I managed to get through the start-ups. Am allergic to prozac and lofepramine

Now on Mirtazapine which seems to be doing nothing at all for anxiety. Nothing. Have seen consultant ho suggested Paroxetine or Duloxetine, bith of which are SSRi or simila type drug. My gp thinks would be unwise to take this bearing in mind previous episodes, and I am terrified of taking them

I had high hopes for mirtazapine, but it just seems like an anti-histamine, made little difference to anything. Anybodyoffer any help?

That's such a useful post thunks will print out and read fully later

Thunksheadontable. Have you gor perinatal anxiety?

If you have then please please accept my sympathies. I had it with dd. Then my mum died when I was 28 weeks pregnant. I have never ever known any anxiety like it, so I hope you are OK.

Interestingly enough, it all went once dd made her appearance. To the hour really, it just went.
Rooting for you x

Just thinking a little here.
Tizzilizzy may well be on to something re. the hormonal imbalance.

And that made me think about IVF. I know nothing about it, it did not exist in my day.
But is it not the case that you receive lots and lots of hormones?
Would it be worth your while to find out from one another, who's had IVF?
Could there be a link?

Also agree with the chamomile tea. Marigold tea is also very healing!

And ofcourse, the best antidote of all: a labrador.!!!!!!!!!
Not being flippant.

Good luck all.

Also - to back up my hormone imbalance argument - why are first mothers okay anxiety/depression wise and then ate suddenly affected on a subsequent child? I know a few this has happened to. As in first baby fine, second babe fine, third baby worrying about dropping it down the stairs/needing husband to come home from work/repeated panic attacks. That can't be 'adjustment'. Not when you've already had two.

• why are some first time mothers

• and then are suddenly affected

Mindfulness is good. I've had a bad bad day, the first in 3weeks and all because I had alcohol last night . God have I suffered today! Major wobbles, continuous churning upset feelings and bloody panic attacks (I hate them, they are the worst thing).

Alcohol is a complete no no for me cos I love red wine.

An alcohol binge actually renders me useless the next day - panic attacks ahoy. It's not worth it (although I never seem to learn).

Hi, haven't read the whole thread but wanted to add my thoughts.

Citalopram has worked for me. Diazepam also worked wonders before I started taking the citalopram but it can't be taken long term. It is excellent in a moment of crisis and it was no end of help to me when I went through hell.

Amitriptyline cannot be taken in combination with SSRI's as far as I'm aware.

Yep today I'm utterly useless . I'm hoping after a good nights sleep tomorrow I will feel better. Sadly half a bottle of red isn't really a binge but it's floored me today. Evil evil stuff!

I hope everyone has found this thread helpful. I certainly have I dare not post the next thing, but am going to have to.

I started this thread because of what I pereceived was useless medication.....but I think they started to kick in on Thursday, about 2 1/2 weeks after starting. In fact am sure they have anxiety sort of drifting away, and mood really quite bouncy.

I hope you all find some sort of peace, and the help given and received on here has been awesome. Am definitely considering Mindfulness. Have told DH about it, and he is really interested but he is a closet happy.

I fall else fails, there is this quite good medication.................... Kizzie, it has caused almost zero side effects, in the queen of side effects, so it may be one for you to think about

Here's to an anxiety free summer for us all xxx

FFS Hippy not happy! But perhaps he is a happy hippy

Oranges that's great that the meds are starting to work and with no side effects! You must b so happy . Please keep us updates on your progress! X x

Oranges just wanted to say I am so glad you are starting to feel better and thats even better if its without side effects.
Its hard isn't it with all this information at our finger tips it is sometimes harder to take the medicine that will probably make us feel better as we know all the cons. I am reading all the self help books possible to improve my mood and diet !

That's fab news, really pleased for you :)

Famous last words

Oh no oranges...what's wrong? X

Just normal morning anxiety, breathless AGAIN. The sad thing is, I regard it as normal

Yeah I know what you mean about regarding that as normal! It's sucks! Don't give up on the meds though...you might still have the odd bad day until the fully kick in! Think back to miss positive panties yesterday

Do you have anything on today that your feeling anxious about? Are you due on? Anything that might have heightened ur anxiety?

I was terrible on Friday, but have had two good day yesterday and today, but I know tomorrow morning I'll b back to the doom and gloom cos I have to go to F work

Think nice thought and distraction, distraction, distraction! X x

Back to work tomorrow after 6 months off. I guess that's what's doing it

Yeah that would certainly do it for anyone!!

Do you have a stressful job?

It's awful feeling this way about going to work isn't it?? Is there anything you are looking forward to about it? Are you wanting to go back or being forced back due to things out with your control?

X x

orangesandlemons thats brilliant that youve had some better days.

Try not to be too downhearted - in my experience its very very rarely a straight line. Its a really great sign that youve had at least some improvement to hang on to.

Hope everything goes ok tomorrow. Come back and let us know how it is.

In other news my B&**&% Blip is continuing - but i really am trying everything i can think of to ward it off adn trying very hard not to 'catastrophize'.

Hey Kizzie,

I'm also having a blip too...mainly due to work. I've had a pretty good weekend, but had a bit of a panic this morning which was a bit annoying

I'm chilling out tonight and telling myself I WILL have a good week this week!

Is anything in particular causing ur blip or just the anxiety being a pain?? :/

X x

I am glad you are feeling better too remember small steps going back to work after having 6 months off is going to be daunting don't put too much pressure on yourself you might be pleasantly surprised :-)
Prozac taker for 18 months

Hi yommymommy fingers crossed for a good week for you.

I dont think anything in particular caused mine. Started 2 weeks ago. Had been very busy at work but thats a very regular thing for me and most of the time im ok. I think i said earlier in the thread that my probs just seem to come out of the blue.

For me it ends up being constant feeling of unease. Total loss of confidence etc. I lso find it very difficult to concentrate on anything and find even everyday things difficult to deal with - complete opposite to normal.

Anyway - lets hope we all have a good week and good luck again oranges for tomorrow.