Omg my anxiety is so bad!!!!
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am i doing this to myself i feel like im losing my mind i sont even know why my peeiod is coming any day and my body and brain is in overdrive i cant relax really i feel on alert my symptoms are just fast heart rate feeling flushed feel shaky inside then feel like im trapped and need to escape and my brain is just having dun making me think im losing it going to flip out go crazy and it will nevwr fo away ughh i know it isnt true but it feels like it and mow im mad ar myself and think im weak or something
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jacqueline59683 christina81747
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I know how you feel I can only tell you it gets better, have patience. Several years ago, this forum was a life saver for me . I felt exactly the same way, I thought I had gone crazy. I had never had any mental health issues until my 50's. I even googled can someone go crazy at 50? I had no idea what was happening to me. I spoke to a psychiatrist friend and she reassured me and suggested I go for a thorough physical check up.
My OBGYN prescribed anti anxiety meds and anti depressents, my primary prescribed sleeping pills. I was all over the place.
I think Lexapro was very helpful after about 3-4 weeks I felt like myself again. Looking back, I don't think I was so depressed as anxious. But no one ever diagnosed it Xanax was not really very helpful, so I took it once or twice. What I think was helpful but slow is i started supplements- Vitamin D, Hemax for low iron/ferritin, super b complex, magnesium. I started meditation purchasing HEADSPACE and prayer and journaling. I think these were my magic combination. I still have a cycle at 57 ughhh but its sporadic now and I am 90% better. May God bless you and you feel better soon, you will.
Guest jacqueline59683
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Are you still on the antidepressant? I have been suffering so badly i cant eat and i only weigh 90lbs! I have been prescribed Zoloft, i tried it about three times but it made me so sick i could never make it past the 2nd month but im at a point now where im so anxious and depressed i never leave my house!! I need to have my eyes checked & my drivers license renewed but i cant leave! I need to do something
jacqueline59683 Guest
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Brandy,
I took lexapro for 2 years and then weaned myself off. I started I think with 10mg then 5mg. But it helped tremendously, there are side effects, for me weight gain, and hard to reach orgasm, but my sex drive is pretty much non existent since peri, so I didnt care I did feel like my old self again.
Indifferent christina81747
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no you are not doing this to yourself. I use chamomile tea or a product called rescue remedy by Bach Flower when I feel the anxiety hitting bad.
and I have really learned to avoid sugar and chocolate, that is what sends me over the deep end of anxiety.
hope you feel better soon.
claire71812 christina81747
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hello
its our hormones driving us nuts. we have be kind to ourselves, not suffer in silence. Not try to " keep calm and carry on " as my British upbringing tells me to do! Get all the help you can from everyone you can. Talk to other women you know. Just do what you can each day, don't beat yourself up! Peri/Menopause is blinking crap. I cant express how strongly I feel this. Best of luck, I hope things improve for you.
NothinforNothin christina81747
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I just started cbd pills for anxiety and they do help to calm me down. I hear a lot of ladies taking lexapro and say it helps. I wasn't looking to take any medication for this but, I may look into that too. The anxiety has been the worst for me. Hang in there.