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?

Oh oranges you wouldn't believe some of the bull shit that comes out of his mouth!! He is hated by everyone in our work place, but he just doesn't give a shit x x

Perhaps we should all learn from him instead of being delicatel little flowers

He sounds like a bully tbh, and I bet that doesn't help

nice to know I'm not alone! have had anxiety for years (GAD I think) Recently started cutting down on alcohol, and my anxiety has increased - drinking too much coffee does NOT help...

GP has increased my seroxat, I go to pilates and try to make sure I get enough sleep. Have considered quitting alcohol altogether, but thats a struggle!! (see the Brave Babes Battle Bus thread for how we support each other on there...)

OK, I'm off.

Security tag, full make-up for first time in 6 months (and I got very brown in that heatwave so colourslook wrong), computer, bag and very very trembly smile and legs

Am shaking at the thought

Good luck orange!! It won't b long til ur home! X x

Hey Aliasjoey,

I don't drink much at all and avoid Caffine where possible as feel they both increase my anxiety!!

I'll check out the thread you mentioned. What section is it in?? X x

Hi jst dropping in to say hope it was ok oranges

Evening ladies!!

Oranges how was first day?? Hope it was fine once you got through the door!

I've had a pretty good day! even made it to the circus tonight with my little angels, it was fab

Wonder what tomorrow will bring, hmm!

Hope everyone is well x x

Had trouble with internet last night.

Itwas OK.....terrifyling atfirst but did settle in. Still have knot of sometning in throat though. Which brings me back to my original post about whether this medication is doing anything

Well done oranges for getting through your first day

Do you have a day off today? X x

Well done !
( I think it will be hard to make any judgement about the medication at the moment because it was inevitable that your anxiety was going to rocket when you went back to work).