Hi
I have been diagnosed as suffering from anxiety and depression after spending 5-6 weeks feeling sick being unable to eat and getting overly emotional at random moments. It happened a year ago after a period of huge stress and I went on citalopram for a while with a brief time on propanalol to ease the sickness feeling. It really helped at the time and I felt well enough to come off meds after 3-4months tho in hindsight I must have rushed this.
It started again ten weeks ago and I could feel it coming but could not stop it and ended up with citalopram again. I took this for 7 weeks but still had awful nausea and jitters and although doc tried an anti sickness pill it was more for reflux etc than anxiety and ended up making my jitters much more pronounced. Also I was extremely tired, spending every day / evening off just falling asleep.
Doc then suggested trying fluoxetine as gives some people more energy. This def worked for my energy and now been on for 2 weeks but jitters have been much worse and getting me down and have just got some propanalol to try calm them.
Sorry for long post but im wondering if anyone has been through similar, if so can anyone advise when they finally started feeling better? From what ive read its a waiting game which I understand but I guess having started the process ten weeks ago im just getting a bit impatient and starting to wonder if ill ever feel fairly "normal" again. This feeling kinda stops me being particularly rational in my train of thought, particularly as its been going on so long.
Thanks for reading, hope youre all having a good day xx
Propanolol will help ease the jitters. I couldnt tolerate citalopram and doctor switched me to fluox but again, i couldnt tolerate side effects. He has now switchedme to venlafxine which do seem to have fewer side effects when starting up
Thanks for taking the time do reply. How long was it before something finally worked for you? Glad something eventually did. Only got propanalol yesterday, if it eases the jitters I think it'll really help.
Most posts on here say just stick it out it will get better. The longer it goes on the more helpless I feel but hearing people say that is a great comfort.
Take care
Vix,
I've also recently been diagnosed with GAD. Guess we're in the same boat. I've suffered with anxiety most of my life but only recently found out there was an actual term or condition for it and that others experience the same.
I was prescribed anti emetics and anti depressants but I threw the anti depressants in the bin.
Have you been to CBT yet? I found it helps a bit. For me, it's more it helped me understand what was happening to me.
Hi thanks for posting. Sorry to hear you're suffering too. Im going back to docs this week and will ask about cbt or other therapy, anything that may help is worth a try.
For me I dont know what triggered it off this time unless I just wasnt recovered properly from last year which is possible. Ive always been a strong socially active person so these feelings of helplessness and wanting to hide away are really hard to deal with. Also if youve never suffered from this its really hard to understand just how physically ill it makes you feel, I had no clue ! I am lucky enough to have a couple of great friends who do understand but others just think im wallowing (maybe I am but I dont know what over?).
I am hoping my current low mood is a blip and just my body adjusting to meds, after hearing other peoples experience I figure I need to push on for a few more weeks n wait for the upturn everyone says will come. I need to shake this off!
If theres any more tips you have on coping day to day please do let me know. Xx
Thanks for taking the time to post xx