Hi Iwantofeelgoodagain. Welcome to Healing Well.
I think I can help you. I have been on many different meds too for
both anxiety and depression. I am pretty familiar with most of the meds, and you may need up to six weeks for Paxil to be giving you full effect.
I'm glad that you have started theropy, even if it is slow. Have you
called your therapist and expained how bad you are feeling? If not I
think you should give it a try. And call your GP and set up an appointment with asap on it. Or if it is too much for you then you
should go to outpatients and they will offer you some sort of meds.
The most important thing I can tell you is that Paxil is for depression and offers little or no anxiety relief. I am reading that you need a tranquilizer such as Valium, and that you need it asap. The sooner you get that the better. Within hours of taking anti-anxiety meds, including Valium and other similars brands your anxiety goes away. It takes no more than an hour at the most to
feel immense relief. You relax.
I think you need to treat the anxiety first and asap before you
will get relief from the depression. But I think it will come fairly quicky after you have you anxiety under control :)
I wish you a very speedy recovery,
Derwood.
PS- The blog name you picked is freakin' awesome
