Posted by lukeds on October 26, 2006, at 17:31:00
I have been taking xanax since January of 1998, 1mg two times a day and Paxil 40mg per day, but this year in June I withdraw Paxil with suffering, and start to take Nardil 60mg per day in two doses during 5 weeks, but it didn’t function, and it produced me something that I would had never suffered before, insomnia. During the wash-out of the Nardil (10 days) I suffered panic attacks and raised the xanax cr 3mg per day to stop the panic attacks.
Then I went to my psychiatrist and put me in Paxil 50mg and xanax cr 3mg., two times per day, that I would have to reduce to 1mg in two doses when the paxil was taking effect, and trazodone 50mg for sleep, but the paxil didn’t kick in after two months, so I went again to the psychiatrist, and changed the paxil for Effexor XR, It passed one week, when I took a cold, and I spent 5 days without sleep, the trazodone with the cold didn’t work, and I begun to take 15mg. of Rexer to sleep, at the beginning it went well, but after some days I only could sleep 3 or 4 hours and with bad quality of sleep, and during the day I had a bit of anxiety.
So I decided to change of psychiatrist, and he put me in Anafranil injections of 25mg one per day during 6 days, and after that 10mg of tablets three times a day, Ludiomil (Maprotiline) 25mg 3 times a day, 25mg of Librium 3 times a day, and reduced the xanax cr to 2mg before sleep.
Here is when I begun to suffer severe panic attacks (very strong), I have suffered since 1994 panic attacks, the were strong, but these news attacks were BRUTAL, I called the psyc explained it, but he said me to up the Librium to 50mg three times a day, but It didn’t stopped my severe panic attacks, and my anxiety, so I decide that I would have to treat myself, so I have been taken Anafranil since the injections and the tablets (Anafranil 10mg three times a day) 8 days, Ludiomil (Maprotiline) 25mg three times a day, 8 days, I have upper the Xanax cr to 12mg, in two doses of 6mg each one, to stop the BRUTAL panic attacks and the anxiety during the day, and still I have anxiety. And I sleep with 50mg or 100mg of trazodone, but I have to wait in the bed three or four hours every nights, to fall asleep.
So what can I do to relief my severe anxiety, my obsessive-compulsive disorder and the insomnia, without fall in depression, meanwhile I wait to the Anafranil and the Ludiomil to kick in?
I just want to suffer the minimum until the antidepressants take effect.Which is the more powerful drug for anxiety?
How about clonazepam or lorazepam?The Anafranil produces me anxiety, but in the prospectus of the drug, says that after two weeks, the secondary effect of the drug (the anxiety) disappear. Can anyone that have taken the drug tell me if this usually happens?
Do you recommend me to sleep better, to take seroquel? And in how many quantities, 12.5mg or 25mg?
What about Valdoxan? I can’t buy Rozerem in Europe, because it isn’t legalized yet.
Please give me advices and information of what to do to suffer the less possible in anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder and insomnia, until the antidepressants kick in, because I am suffering a lot and the wait seems to me to be eternal.
I am suffering a lot and I can't exit my house because the severe anxiety and panic attacks, please HELP ME!
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