Could or has medication increased anxiety ?

Mental health
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Hi,

New to the site, so apologies if this is clunky or makes little sense.

I've always had problems with anxiety and worry, since I was very small and worried about dying, it used to keep me up crying. I got over it, had some problems with depression, diagnosed Bipolar 2, Add and OCD ( ruminations ) the unholy trinity I like to call them as the symptoms are an absolute pain to treat. Due to some trauma when I was younger a PDoc I was seeing was keen to go along the lines of ptsd and gad, however she left and the precious pdoc was keen to keep his first diagnosis.

After trying a symphony of pills, lithium, quetiapine, the rest of the standard list we settled on strattera for my add and quetiapine for bipolar - therapies for OCD which well... pretty useless to me.

However, ever time I take my pills strattera in the am, only noticeable side effect is yawning. Pm quetiapine knock me out after an hour our so, once they kick in my OCD and anxiety go through the roof getting to the point I'm having full on sweats, dizziness, crying.

Anyways, I'm sorry for the long winded post I just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced similar with these pills and what avenue they took to alleviate the symptoms.

Thank you for sticking through the babble

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MMMhi I came off a med once as it didn't seem to work , know they can take while to kick in, anyway stopped and anxiety ten times worse. Felt paranoid, racing heart thoughts etc, worse. May need to askbdoc to change meds, everyone suits different ones. Really stress what your symptoms are like . I understand docs only have limited time with each person. Keep posting here, will be others who can help more. Great talking here, people actually know what this feels like❤️

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Quetiapine can increase anxiety it should settle after you get used to it.Sometimes quetiapine XL is easier to take.If it doesn't settle down after a month or so you may have to try another antipsychotic.