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joanne91122
joanne91122

Been on 75mg venlafaxine for a week along with mirtazapine which been on for 3 mths and wasn't helping. My anxiety has got unbearable!! Woke at 330 and needed to take 6mg of diazepam already!! Please tell me this gets better?!?! I need to do school run and go to work and feel on edge of a breakdown!!

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  • Dawn1208
    Dawn1208 joanne91122

    Posted

    Sorry to hear your feeling this way my anxiety increased when I started I'm now on 150mg a day slow release and I'm feeling better 2 months on I still have some anxiety and still have some days when I'm weepy but I have defiantly improved I also take pregablin as my anxiety was really bad and that also helps I take 75mg in the morning and 150mg at night. Hope you feel better soon but hang in there I sometimes think going to work when I was bad really helped me as my mind wasn't focused solely on my anxiety. I hope you feel better soon. X
  • joanne91122
    joanne91122

    Posted

    Thankyou. Just feel so low and anxious..was even thinking of going to a+e but I have done school run and now come to work. Look like a drugged up zombie x
    • elaine92718
      elaine92718 joanne91122

      Posted

      Don't worry what others think. That was my downfall. You stay strong. You'll get there. Just takes time but you'll look back and think did all that really happen!! 😊😊😊
    • joanne91122
      joanne91122 elaine92718

      Posted

      Totally broke down at work and gonna go to emergency doctors later. Don't know whether to take more diazepam or if that will just make me lower x
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