Posted by Cecilia on April 24, 2002, at 21:50:14
In reply to Re: Lamictal dose increase-Ponder » Cecilia, posted by Ponder on April 24, 2002, at 11:54:18
Actually my doctor didn`t say I needed to increase so slowly, I`m just doing it that way because I`ve had so many problems with side effects with drugs. I have chronic depression, anxiety, social phobia.
I take trazodone, celexa and clonazepam, I`m not sure any of them really do anything but they don`t have any bad side effects and I`m afraid to go off them, I had horrible anxiety attacks when I went off celexa even though I never felt it was doing anything for me when I was on it, and the trazodone and clonazepam were added during a period of severe situational anxiety, which improved somewhat after I was on them but I don`t know if it was the drugs or just time, I just know I don`t want to go through that again. For me, depression is constant but anxiety varies depending on life circumstances. I guess I have a hard time understanding how depression can ever be cured because it`s about the past, all the losses and regrets and humiliations that can`t be changed. Anxiety is about the future and most of that can`t be changed either, no matter what, we`re all going to get old and probably get some horrible disease and die. I obsess about cancer a lot, not so much the dying, but the waiting to die, living in fear of the fear. Sorry for this cheerful post, I don`t know what I`d if I DID find a med that woks, like a dog chasing a car, what would he do with it if he caught it?
Cecilia
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