mornings

Hi Chuck a,

For some reason in the morning I also feel anxious and as I start getting myself ready for work it starts going away. Are you taking medication for your anxiety? Perhaps it's a side effect of the medication? Have you told your Dr.? I take Zoloft 25mg in the morning and 100mg at night when I go to bed. My Dr. thinks this might help me more.

Hope you start feeling better soon.

Jazz729

Just take the mg your Dr prescribed but you might want to advise your Dr how you are feeling. I'm hoping you start feeling better soon, but don't wait too long to speak to your Dr if you don't see improvement. I like to drink Yogi teas as well, the St. John Worth - Blues Away is very good. You might want to give it a try too.

Keep me posted Chuck.

I apologize if you have read this before...I post about it a lot, as this topic comes up often. Finding out this information helped me so much, that I always want to pass it on!

There is a physical reason why anxiety is higher in the morning. Our bodies produce a stress hormone called Cortisol. This is a good thing in small doses, since it is motivating...in other words without it, we would never get out of bed!  Therefore, Cortisol it at its highest level in the body in the mornings.

The downside comes when one either makes too much of it, or has a sensitivity to it...both of which can come with anxiety. The result is mega anxiety and possibly panic.

Just knowing that there was a real reason for this 'a.m. freak out' that I was experiencing helped me to not fear or dread it...and it started to fade.

Every once in a while I will still have a bad morning, but if I put my coping mechanisms to work and remind myself that this is not unusual, then I am soon feeling better.:)

I hope that this at least helps shed some light on your situation.

S.C.

Seems as though the zoloft is starting to work, the anxiety isnt as strong as it used to be

How long have you been taking zoloft?