Sleep disorder led to anxiety and change of meds Nortriptyline to Effexor

Several months ago I could not sleep due to stress was on 35 milligrams of nortriptyline. This went on for some time until my doctor finally decided to put me on Effexor 75mg weaning me off nortriptyline. I'm also on diazepam 2 to 4 milligrams a day and 15 milligrams of Restoril at night. The restoril is only working mostly every other night I sleep a little bit 3 or 4 hrs one night but the next night I get a good sleep of about 8 hours. So far have been on 37.5 milligrams a Effexor for 2 weeks and now into my 5th day at 75 milligrams Effexor off of nortriptyline. Having a major amount of anxiety from the Effexor. Just took up to 15 milligrams of Diazepam today to try to help probably a mistake. Maybe a bit calmer but still feel like crap. Any ideas to ease my pain. Will call the Dr. Tomorrow. Long time ago tried Cymbalta could not take it either. Should I just suck it up and hang in there with the Effexor or and how much diazepam do you think I should take to help. Once I feel better I hope to get off the Restoril. Thanks for any comments.

thanks for the quick reply I'm not going anywhere just feel lousy

Thank you so much for your advice. I do understand the coping skills been through this before but I will look into your forums ideas as well. I did mean 15 and that was high I admit I was all worked up, that will not happen again, I will talk to the doctor about that, just have to get through this transition. Just hope effexor is a good drug for me. This is my first time on any forum and I really appreciate any support. For some reason I feel some relief in the evening but during the day it gets bad. The diazepam helps regulate it some I just have to figure out how much with the doctor. Just nice to talk to other folks about this not too many people get it.

Should I now be concerned about going so quickly up on diazepam from 3 or 4 milligrams to 15 in one day not doing that again but did that cause a problem?

TRS