When will this get better 😥

Hi x what dose are you on? If you don't mind me asking? When you say slightly better what has improved for you?

Did you suffer from anxiety and depression? I haven't heard of resperidone? I'm not sure what it does x

talk about added meds for crying out loud .heres one for you toria.

so you heard of the amphatem n mixed salts but not the resperidone?hmmm

I heard someone else mention the mixed salts on a different forum a while ago x I think that would be a bit much for me lol

you think.??!

I just want it all to be over tbh. I miss who I used to be. I miss smiling and enjoying life

what ever you do .i would not add another antid.i would only add a benzo.

I agree. I curse the day I decided to give these meds a try. I would take how I felt before meds for the rest of my life to get the last three months of my life back.

No I definitely won't add another one because that's how I got in this state in the first place. I think it's gonna be a case of switching if it doesn't end up working. Sometimes I feel like I'm slightly better then sometimes I feel like I'm not and never will be better. I need to see my doc about adding a benzo but they hate giving them out. It's the low mood that's getting to me today x

Have you had any improvement yet? Anything you've noticed that's different? You were struggling a few days ago x

yes you are having waves of mood .that is all within the norm of this med.that does not mean it stop working.its just the meds going thru their motion.i had that same crap.but my benzo would get me out of that groung hog mood days.

How did you feel when you took the benzo? I'm just so worried it will lower my mood like my beta blockers did. I just don't know if it was in my head though. You are amazing being able to stick it out for 8 months. I don't know how you did that x

the benzo for me calms my nervous system.calmer nervous system aint a bad thing.

Still struggling, even more than a few days ago. No improvement at all.

ive been having 100s of symptoms for nearly a year but im improving, im telling you its the change in dose!!!

Toria,

You are stronger than me. I cant imagine feeling this way for a year.

Is their anyone who could advise you on what would be best? Apart from on here. It's so hard to decide when you feel like you do because it seems no matter what you do it feels like a lose lose situation.

What in the world! How are you managing having to deal with that for a year!

I've been struggling for months now and that in itsself is scary because it adds to the anxiety of I'm never going to get better.

Potatohog, the dr advised I go back down to 20mg and see if the side effects ease up, but then everyone on here said not to bc the withdrawl would be really hard and it scared me to stick with the 30mg. Ultimately, the dr left the decision up to me. I see her in two weeks.

thank you laura but we are stronger than we know and i had no choice, i had another withdrawal before this one, feel like a pro now, wish i didnt! the last one i kept taking doctors advice and adding meds it just made me worse so wont do that anymore, what is your back story? x

surviving antidepressants is a good forum

i thought the same thing when i cut my 20 to 10.but on the contrary i was relief of the side effects.

Toria,

Before CIT, I had very mild anxiety that usually only showed up during travel. I have been taking Xanax as needed for travel anxiety for years. I started to travel a lot more, so the anxiety had started to become more frequent. I was trying to be proactive and talk to the psychiatrist about my issues, and he put me on an extrememly low dose of Lexapro. Out of nowhere, I got intrusive thoughts about self harm and my anxiety went through the roof. I have NEVER had depression and for sure do not want to hurt myself. Our life is very good. None of it made sense. So, they took me off the Lexapro for a couple of weeks. I was only on it 8 days. I never lost the hightened anxiety or intrusive thoughts in those two weeks and was even starting to get depressed because of it. So, thats when we started the CIT. I started seeing a therapist after they took me off the Lexapro and see her once a week. I feel like seeing her helps me more than the meds.

no choice lovely

bless you laura, your story sounds similar to mine, believe it or not i had been on mirt 2 times then i was rushed in to hospital with a suspected stroke and given high dose steriods (it was a migraine) i got steriod induced pychosis and because doctors didnt tell me it would pass in 6 weeks i was ploughed with med after med, this was nearly two years ago, anyway i was on mirt for 8 days and ended up convulsing on the floor, i had withdrawals from that for 3 months, you will be normal again please believe it, as im nearly at 12 months on a lower dose of cit and only now getting better days but at least im not getting the racing thoughts about killing myself anymore just other racing thoughts and many other symptoms but theyre improving however slowly, whatever you do just do it slowly x

so happy for you toria .best regards

What about doing it in really small doses? Just cut a tiny bit off each tablet at a time. This way will take longer but atleast if you do start getting withdrawal it won't be as severe and you can always go back to 30mg if it's too tough.

I wish was as strong mentally as the rest of you. It seems like you have all been through it and I feel like a whimp lol.

My anxiety started because my partner at the time of 10+ years had a one night stand and got pregnant and didn't tell me until she did the test. I decided to stay with her because I couldn't leave her pregnant and alone and everytime I had to go to work by travelling I would get anxious about who she was with and what she was up to and all that rubbish so I started getting it when I had to travel and it just got worse. Then when it all sank in I got depression too. It's crazy how it happens isn't it x I'm sorry to hear you had a rough time with lexapro. That's scary thinking about hurting yourself isn't it 😱

if you can only convince your self that its the meds .which truly is the meds.than mentally everything will feel some what normal.thats what i did .cause at one point i thought it was me not the meds.

That's actually a good way to look at it x I'm gonna start trying to think that way and hope it helps because you are right. It's mad how anxiety makes us think x thank you lovely x

Wow x if only I was as mentally strong as you! Xx

thank you lois 😃 dont get me wrong at times i feel right back at the start especially around my time of the month but slowly seeing improvements x

if you ever need to chat you can drop me a message on here x

me going thru the menapause also was tough .now that iam taking hrt.my mood is a thousand times normal.

Thank you that's really sweet x I will do at some point x it's nice to know I can so thank you. And the same goes for you too 😊

oh dear, i keep thinking that is happening to me

no worries 😃 x

yes toria for along time i thought my hot flashes were anxiety related.boy was i wrong as soon as i started my hrt my hot flashes dissapeared and my mood also improved.and i only been on hrt for two months now.

oh i dont really get hot flashes until im due on my period x

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eh?

If the dose is too high trust me it can feel worse then the withdrawl, at least it was for me. Once I started to decrease which I did by 5mg, I hit the dose that must have been right for me and been feeling better now for about 7-8 weeks.

I was taking 20mg for almost 7 months and just felt awful but kept waiting for the celexa to kick in, it didn't.. So I decided I was going to switch per: the doctors advice so I started to wean myself (my decision). Sooo glad that I chose to do that, I don't think I had any withdrawl at all that I noticed, and very soon after reducing I just felt much better.