Waves of anxiety after 7 weeks
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Hi all
I am 7 weeks in on citalopram and 4 and a half on 20mg. I am also on lorazepam. I have been feeling better this past week but I am experimenting with taking the lorazepam less as im worried it is just that that has caused the improvement. When I haven’t taken it I still get random waves of anxiety out of nowhere - ie I haven’t been thinking anxious thoughts. Is this normal? Should this have gone away by now?
Many thanks
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nina87533 tamsin07572
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How long have you been taking lorazapram? And how much is the dose?
tamsin07572 nina87533
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ive been taking 0.5 once a day for a couple of weeks then twice a day for a week. Next week i am to take it twice one day then once the next. just trying to take it once today
nina87533 tamsin07572
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If it’s only been a couple of weeks, I wouldn’t worry about it. On days you have less or none, your anxiety may peak a little but not too much and it shouldn’t last long. The antidepressant is still on it’s early days as well so that could be contributing too.
0.5 is a really low, low dose, so don’t stress yourself out about awful withdrawals or dependence. It might just be where you’ve been on it for awhile now, it’s doing more harm than good and the more days you go without the better you’ll get.
I’ve been on 1mg for over 3 weeks straight every night a few years back when I was starting citalopram and stopped cold turkey. Sucked for a few nights; because I relied on them so much to relax, but I didn’t have any crazy withdrawals or craved them. Got better after about a week or two of stopping them, but I always assumed it was my citalopram kicking in.
tamsin07572 nina87533
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Thanks Nina - it ended up being a disaster of a morning. Recovered ok from the brief anxiety wave first thing but then went to yoga felt anxious all the way through and then we did breath work at the end and that set off my shortness of breath thing so I got more anxious and then ended up having a panic attack which i havent had for a few weeks. Ended up crying, shaky not able to breathe properly. Had to take the lorazepam. Clearly its been masking a whole lot and now I think that the citalopram hasn’t been working at all.
lois95799 tamsin07572
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these meds take along time to work.that four week or six week recovering period is a lie.is a slow process and if you are on this forum you are one of the unlucky ones just like me and countless others trust me is working take your benzo with no guilt is there for a reason.saying a prayer for you