Posted by alexcanada on March 27, 2013, at 13:30:54
In reply to Re: Day 2. Pretty bad anxiety » alexcanada, posted by tensor on March 27, 2013, at 8:21:37
30mg or possibly more would be my target dose. Low doses usually work best for me since I'm very med sensitive. Paxil 9mg for instance was about the ideal dose for me.I am considering starting 20mg tonight and perhaps staying there for a while before trying 30mg. Though if there is some noticable improvement or reduction in anxiety symptoms then I may move up quicker. It's hard to tell because I don't know how I will feel tomorrow.
I am hoping that the medication behaves differently at higher doses. Kind of like how Remeron was very sedating for me at 10mg but more activating at 40mg. Except in this case I'd prefer some anxiety relief because it's really difficult right now.
Gabapentin is allowing me to tolerate it more thankfully.
Valium does help too. More than usual. Of course my anxiety is much much much stronger than usual. I wonder if Anafranil is thus effecting my valium in any way? Because this dysphoric feeling is a bit similar to when I tried withdrawing from valium and everything became really dark. But the thing is 2 weeks ago I was at 2.5mg and then been on 2mg ever since. It's been a bad few weeks but not horrendous. It did not become this bad until Anafranil. Anxiety this morning was absolutely fierce.
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