Posted by Vincent_QC on March 28, 2009, at 14:10:02
In reply to Re: social anxiety vs. AvPD » Vincent_QC, posted by myco on March 28, 2009, at 13:13:51
> Hey Vince,
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> > "OK...I have SAD, that's the primary problem but I have also the avoidant personality disorder but you cant have this treat by meds anyway...therapy only no???"
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> Yes you're right. Avoidance is a behavioural trait youve picked up, due to anxiety, to reduce the chances of feeling anxious. I have this to...this one responds well to therapy or beer lol benzo's also to some degree but youve already a problem with valium.
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> >"...I cannot believe anxiety can cause such a strong pain in my head...and make my life so misery..."
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> I know exactly how you feel here I think. These are actually headaches, whether or not you may believe. I had these...basically a panic attack that is ongoing will raise your bp way way up (for me anyway) and cause severe bp headache. Also sometimes without the raised bp I will get them...this intense pounding or throbbing in my head that no pain medication Ive used can help...I just have to wait it out or knock myself out to sleep to avoid it.
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>Hi Myco,
Happy to sse that you're seem to feel good ;-)Did you take any benzos now??? Or did you had an addiction to them before and succeed to stop them now? Since I was switch from the Rivotril to the Valium (The Rivotril was not working on me after less than 1 year, even at 8mg/day...it was like sugar pills for me...I was drinking tons of vodka and beers on it also...it's worse my alcohol problem at the time...but at the end, even at 8mg I had no relieve of my anxiety, social or general but also no side-effects at all at this high dose, no sedation, nothing at all...they just stop working that's it...), so the Doc change it for the Valium...since then...the headache seem to got worse...First, the Valium is more sedative...Second, it have a lot of active metabolites inside who make it really hard on the system...sometimes, you increase the dose one day because you feel worse one day and you feel the effect only 2 or 3 days after... That's really strange, I hate the Valium now...I was put on it to gradually stop the benzos drugs...the famous Dr Ashton method...1mg cut week...but that'S never happen , even after 2 years...i'm stuck at 20-30mg/day since then...
But like I was writing much earlier, since 1 1/2 weeks, I have a really weird sensation inside my head...I know it's not comming from my anxiety level, since I don't live anything new in my life, no new stressfull situation, nothing... I had some bad moments and more stressfull moments in my life since 2 years and I never had this strange sensation...Yes, I had the regular headache you talking about, the ones related with the panic attacks, the rise of the anxiety in social situation, things like this...but the continious pain in the middle of my head, like someone push my brain with his 2 hands...never...and I know what my anxiety can do on me and i'm sure that cant be linked to this!!!
Another point, before, I also often feel this strange pain, but when my brains was craving for more benzos drugs...so I was increasing my daily dose of Valium...and the pain dissepear....but now, I increase the dosage to 30mg and the pain stay at the same level and the more late it is at night, the more painfull it is... and no painkiller remove this pain...Advils, Tylenols, Aspirins, Motrins...I try everything...even the ones with codeine inside... The pain stay there...I get up in the morning and it's still there...
This pain appear 1 1/2 weeks after I stop the Clomipramine...after 3 weeks on it at 50mg...I stop cold turkey...I had also 3 days of Nortiptyline at 20mg...but too much high pulse rate so I stop... I'm also out of money since the day the mysterious pain begin...so maybe it's the anxiety??? You see i'm confusing a lot...
I don't know what to do... One thing is sure...I need a change of benzos, since the Valium is not appropriate for me now...the metabolites make it for me too much sedative and make me more depress with a more pronounced lack of motivation... I don't want also to fall again on the high addictive stuff like Xanax...who make me hospitalised last summer for high addiction... or the Ativan, who is not really good for panic disorder and is also a lot sedative... I need something more balanced like the Bromazepam... but that's not a lot used in those day...so I don't know if the new PDoc will say yes for it...or just say again that he don't want to change my Valium because anyway I have to come off of them because it's just b*llsh*t and make my state worse!!!
I need the Marplan so bad... why they cannot give me an answer more faster... I just loose my time wating...and wating...that's so stupid...anyway...
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