Anxiety support, Hand hold or chit chat come say hi #3

[Fairydust26]

Can you believe the last threads full up?! We had a great support network going on the previous two so come and say a big hello and join us.

@ilovesprouts. That is how I feel too. The tingly hot cold thing is less now but I also feel very emotional most days. I don't cry but I get the lump and my eyes sting with tears, I just don't let them fall. I usually go for a walk instead. I am on medication too.

Thanks fairydust, I was so nervous going into my appointment but it was actually easier than I thought it would be to talk once I was there. The GP was lovely, and has prescribed me sertraline. Took my first one about an hour ago. Feeling worried about side effects as I’m normally home alone all day with my very energetic 10 month old, but at least my husband is working from home today and will be here all weekend to help in case I do feel rough.

How are you feeling today, starzzzz? Did you manage to get a doctors appointment?

Unfortunately they were all booked up @tiptoetobed but thank you for asking. I have felt really nervous and agitated all day. It's very difficult as I'm finding some tasks at work very hard, but they don't seem understand - it's not a feeling I can just turn off.

tiptoetobed hope the sertraline gives you some relief I’m on that, the side effects can be abit rough at the start but they do eventually ease.

Starzzzzz if only there was a switch to turn all these anxious feelings off I’d be the first to have it! I find it really difficult to try and explain to people what it feels like too..could you try and get an emergency appointment Monday morning?.

Got a message from a friend on Facebook. Every time they message me I know they're going to tell me something they heard about my DS. I was right. He told me some stuff my DS was saying and I am heart broken. I didn't raise him this way. I raised a kind polite considerate boy. Not this self obsessived brat who feels like the world owes him something

starzzzz that’s rubbish that you couldn’t get an appointment, will you try again on Monday? Hope you’re feeling ok today. It’s so frustrating when people don’t understand how you feel - my DH does his best, but he’s always telling me ‘just don’t worry about it’, if only it was that easy

fairydust have you found Sertraline to work well for you then? What dose are you on, and did you start off on the full dose or build up gradually? My GP has prescribed 50mg, but yesterday and today I only took 25mg (she didn’t tell me to do this). Side effects haven’t been too bad so far, just a bit of nausea, heart palpitations and increased insomnia last night, so I’m thinking I might take the full dose tomorrow.

Iblinked, sorry you are having a rough time with your DS. How old is he? Could it just be a teenage/early 20s phase he is going through?

tiptoetobed. My DS is 19. I am also on Stertaline, I started in Jan and I am on 100mg. Started off on 50mg. I can't remember side effects. I was so low at the time that I didn't know what was the drug and what was just my Aniexty/depression. My sleep still isn't great but it's better.

@starzzz try again for an appointment. Tell them it's important, not an emergency, unless you feel like doing something.

tiptoetobed I’m on 50mg gp wanted me to up to 100mg after a week but I found the side effects too rough so I’ve just stayed at 50. I found it has helped I still have bad days but they are few and far between, it’s helped me cope with things better makes me a little bit braver if that’s even possible ha! How you feeling today?.

fairydust that’s good to hear that sertraline is working for you! I’m hoping it makes me braver too . I’m not feeling too bad today thanks. Yesterday, after saying on here that my side effects hadn’t been too bad, I was hit with a wave of nausea, diarrhoea and exhaustion in the afternoon. I was expecting to feel even worse today, as I took the full 50mg this morning but I’ve just had a headache and been quite lethargic all day.

Hope everyone has a good week coming up!

Oh the irony, I am booked on an anti-anxiety workshop this afternoon and I'm lying awake worrying about it, I know I won't be able to go

brizzledrizzle how did it go?

I didn't go.

Oh no brizzle that’s okay though I know how hard these things can be. Is it something you could Potentially go to again?.

Brizzledrizzle, that's such a shame. Hope you are feeling okay now.

Late to the party here!

I've suffered with anxiety on various scales for the last 15 years. Lots of different medications. I've been on Paroxetine for probably 8-10 years, never have a review so just repeat prescriptions.

Started suffering with stress at work, to the point my heart rate was continually over 140bpm and one day I just I couldn't carry on.

Went to the GP, got signed off, happy days. She said they don't really prescribe paroxetine any more as it's really hard to come off because of the side effects. Great, not!!!

She suggested my Paroxetine dose be increased due to the stress, so I'm now on 30mg, with the potential to increase to 40mg, possibly 50mg.

The thing is it isn't helping with anxiety.

Not that I can an appointment for at least a month, I'm wondering whether to I should look to switching to something else, though the only one I haven't tried is Sertraline, and I'm not sure if that will be as bad to wean off, once/if I feel ready to.

chuffnstuff I’m no expert on meds, having just started on sertraline for the first time, but it’s got to be worth a try if your current meds aren’t really helping anyway? I haven’t heard anything about sertraline being particularly difficult to wean off, and I’ve done a fair bit of reading up on it over the last few days.

Day 4 of sertraline today, and I’ve been feeling fairly anxious and low. Home alone with my 10 month old for the first time since starting it on Friday, and I kept worrying that I would pass out (I was feeling dizzy this morning) and he would be left roaming around unsupervised. All sorts of disastrous scenarios were running through my mind . Aside from the dizziness and slight nausea, the physical side effects don’t seem to be too bad so I guess I’m lucky there.

I'm still on sertraline 100mg, plus aripiprazole 5mg. Not going to lie, I've found the aripiprazole to be a much rougher side effect. Have been feeling utterly exhausted and was sick a few days ago.

I now have a cold, which isn't helping. I was given zoplicone to help me sleep, but I really haven't needed it!

I dislike how so many 'simple' things feel scary, even picking up my prescription.

Such an awful but all encompassing way to live. It shouldn't be like this.

I did find a new book today, called DARE. It also has a Facebook page and an app.

Might be something or nothing, but in desperation I'm prepared to try anything.

Just don't want to feel like this anymore.

chuffnstuff I’ve read the book Dare found it slightly boring however the one I always go back to is the book Self Help For Yor Nerves by Dr Claire Weekes great for anxiety & panic attacks haven’t found one to top it yet and I’ve read plenty.

How’s everyone doing?

I had a strange upsetting dream last night. I dreamt the same dream twice with two different endings. One I was sitting beside a lake I pass in a place a live to walk, completing suicide. I was thinking of all the things I have to live for and after a long while I walked away. The second time I did throw myself in but again thought about my family and changed my mind. I then had to explain why I was wet.

I woke up in tears thinking about how devastated my family would be.

I wonder what the dream means? End of an old life, beginning of a new one? Maybe just picking up on how useless I feel at the moment I don't know

I don't think it me and I'm thinking about suicide because I am not.

That sounds horrible Iblinked No idea. It does sound like an anxiety thing.

The dreams I often have, which are horrible are;

Being naked in public - this seems to happen a lot. Or I just have a towel for some reason and it keeps falling down.

Trying to run away from someone chasing me with a knife and I can't run.

Teeth falling out

Having an exam that I haven't studied for, even though I left Uni over 10 years ago. Having classes I need to attend, but have lost the paper that says what time and which room.

Spiders hanging over my head or being in a jungle sinking in either a swamp or boiling water - that one is probably the least pleasant.

The strangest one I ever had was when I finished work early afternoonish (in real life) utterly exhausted, got home and went straight to sleep. Woke up, well I thought I did, and was back on the bus and was thinking wtf?! Got off the bus again, same bus driver, same people, went back into the same shop etc, went to bed, woke up AGAIN on the bloody bus! This happened about 3 times until I shouted what the hell is going on! And everyone was just staring st me. This was a few years ago, still haven't forgotten it.

Iblinkedandiamold I always have the same recurring dream the endings are always different but the story’s the same, I notice I have them when I’m worried about something or if somethings particularly stressful is happening. I’m tempted to buy a dream book as I wonder what my subconscious mind is trying to tell me!.

I usually just google it @Fairydust26 haha

Does anyone get exploding head syndrome? I sometimes get that too, but only if I'm utterly exhausted. It's horrible.

Yeah fairy. My exam results were due out yesterday and I only remembered Wednesday night before bed. Maybe that's it, I feel like I am drowning in course work at the moment. So much to do and so little time.