Posted by IsoM on December 8, 2001, at 3:52:21
In reply to ANXIETY!!!, posted by Panic AttacK on December 7, 2001, at 21:40:35
Cynthia, I can only give you my own experience. While some SSRIs have worked for me previously, I hate the way they feel on the whole but I'm now on Celexa. It's worked very well for me & amazingly quickly. Within a week, I felt so much better & no other antidepressant has ever done it that fast. I generally have to wait about a month. My 19 year old son found it worked that fast too.
Trouble is after a couple of months of working great, we both started going downhill fast. We both played around with other meds - my son decided he didn't want anything anymore but after a year, I went back on Celexa.
I never got the quick feeling like before but this time it's lasted for a little over a year so far. Hopefully, it'll continue. It seems in reading over the posts here, for more people than not, Celexa doesn't work for them but I love it. No side-effects that I can tell.
I never was prone to panic-attacks but when I was trying different meds to find one that worked, I started having something like panic attacks. I don't know if they were the real thing, but I'd wake in the middle of the night - no nightmare, but just heart racing, so terrified of all the "problems" that seemed insurmountable in my life. They were, physically, the most horrifying feelings. I knew what to expect but to experience it was horrid. I still tremble when I think of it. I had trouble sleeping thinking of these problems too. When I found what worked for me, all these 'attacks' faded away. Is it perhaps something similar to what you have?
> HeLLo... Im back. I have posted here many many many times before [xxx] but changed my username. I have been trying to get help for my panic/anxiety attacks for a long time but cant get any help! I am very sensitive to SSRI's . I have tried Paxil {horrible}, Zoloft, etc... it made my panic attacks so severe i went to the ER 3 times! I couldnt sleep. Lately i havent really been having panic attacks.. I dont know how to explain it. It is more like anxiety attack. It happens when i try to go to sleep. My heart starts racing and my mind wont stop THINKING. It wont shut up. My eyes start fluttering.... but ill be miserably tired and weak and sleepy!!!! BUT my heart wont slow da fuk down. SO I occasionally take a little tiny tiny piece of remeron to KNOCK ME OUT. Xanax wont even put me to sleep. Remeron is the only drug that Puts me to sleep whenever im having anxiety attacks. I have a couple "trial" packs of Celexa and im thinking if trying it. But im scared. I hate SSRIs....its horrible. Can somebody give me advice please... should i try Celexa? Is it going to gove me the same side effects as did the pAXIL AND ZOLOFT? its basically the same stuff right? I have a prescription for BuSpar but never got it filled. No $$$.... but maybe I should just fill the BuSpar??? Please help me... i dont know what to do. I cant live my life feeling like this everyday. I cant sleep at night... i cant wake up in the morning... when i AM awake... i feel like crap... when im sleeping im tossing and turning. I need all facts and experiences from Celexa and BuSpar Thanks. By the way... I am a 21 F in Florida. *Cynthia*
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