Posted by Scribbler on November 18, 2003, at 19:07:23
In reply to Re: Lexapro for Anxiety? » anonymous13, posted by Esmarelda on November 18, 2003, at 17:12:49
> Someone on here once recommended Badger Sleep Balm. I just plugged it into the internet and ordered some. I think it helped relax. It smells good, at the very least. It has lavender and some other herbs in it.<
Greetings -- I'm the one who suggested Badger Sleep Balm. So glad to know you've given it a try! I use it every night and it does help me drift off to dreamland. Sometimes I also take 2.5 mg of Valium, or 5 mg of Ambien if I have to get up really early the next morning (which I always somehow anticipate and then wake up about 3 a.m. and lie there waiting for the alarm to go off).
I'm now on Week #6 and all my SE's are gone, I think. Had trouble eating in Week #1 after nausea first day, regained my appetite about Week #3. Can't comment on the orgasm problem as my husband had prostate surgery about 5 years ago and our sex-life has become more imaginative and less orgasm-focused. I'm not thinking about it right now, anyway; I'm just trying to relax and feel less anxious.
Which brings me to the problem that I DO have, and wonder if anyone else does: It's taking me a while to let Lexapro do what it's supposed to ("Let Go & Let Lexapro," there's a slogan for their ad agency to try!) What I mean is, I will now encounter an occasion when I would ordinarily have felt anxious and/or panicky (that must definitely be spelled wrong) and had used Valium to try and counteract it...So now when I encounter that same situation I still feel like I should take some Valium, just in case. I don't quite trust the Lex to do its thing. When I remind myself to do the above ("Let Go, and...") it usually does, but I still have to get myself over that habit of projecting what might happen if I don't supplement it with the same old Valium. Any ideas? Does it just take time and experience to build up that confidence and trust?
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