Hiya
I'm now on day 27 of 20mg and am a single pare t of a five year old.
It has been hell and I've had to lean a lot on my mum to try help with parenting especially in first two weeks.
Last few days I functioned for first time. I actually ate three meals a day and was able to care for my child alone without any anxiety or low thoughts.
Then yesterday bam I feel like I did in first couple of weeks. No appetite. Constant diarreah, bad thoughts, can't stand being alone but can't stand being the person to look after kids etc.
6 week school holidays have started and I'm scared of how I'm going to manage this. My mum is away for a few more days.
Sleep hasn't improved at all. Still waking 5am unable to get back to sleep. My doctor is awful as he said if side effects still occur after one week it's not the drug for you as he's seen that in 25 years of prescribing apparently. Yet all I read here is so so different.
I had diazapam last week for the anxiety as it was out of control especially in mornings but they wouldn't give me more as it's addictive.
Mornings are still so hard and with a little one who needs me I wonder how you manage to shake the anxiety to function for them? I am a crying shaking mess.
I know you go up and down but this is so hard to deal with