Buspar Prozac panic attacks and life changes

Minipuff:

“And the whole dern bus is cheerin’, and I can’t believe I see.
“A hundred yellow ribbons round the old…oak tree
“I’m comin’ home.”

Hear it on youtube.com Tie a Yellow Ribbon

Minipuff takes on her demons.
Read her account. Feel what she is feeling.
See what she is seeing.
Walk with her through her emotions as she climbs the highest mountain.

Ride the bumpy road of her memories.
What a journey. What a person.

What a doctor you have.
5mg, twice a day, of the newly added anti-anxiety medicine, Buspar.

To go along with the 60 mg. of Prozac, which treats depression and anxiety.

This could work. And knowing that you could increase the Buspar, I'm thinking, I don't know.

Or as Julie Andrews put it in the Sound of Music:

"Climb ev'ry mountain
"Ford ev'ry stream
"Follow ev'ry rainbow
"'Til you find your dream"

Hear it on youtube.com 1965. Climb Every Mountain

5mg is a lite dose for buspar. nothing to it i tell you. dont be afraid . i have never heard of any person having a bad reaction to buspar. the only side effect is a slight dizzyness that goes away.

Minipuff:

You say, "I appreciate all the encouragement!"

We appreciate you. And your psychiatrist. And the medicines. And those who put up with us when we are thrown off track somehow from not taking needed medicines.

And we hopefully appreciate ourselves when we get it together and figure out what's best for us.

Super20dan, did you get insomnia from buspar when you first started? If so, how long before it went away? I've been awake for days with an hour of sleep, waking up, then awhile to get back to sleep for another hour and repeat.

Minipuff:

Are you doing OK?

no i did not get insomnia -and i have suffered world class cases of insomnia in the past . in fact if i took a large dose of 15 mg -i would have to lie down and take a long nap. only took the 15 mg dose a few times -mostly to see what it would do. 5 mg was a usual dose for me and took 10 if really anxious or bad day. keep us posted on your results

Minipuff:

How is the recently added 5 mg of Buspar anxiety medicine doing?

It was added to the 60mg of Prozac, which treats depression as well as anxiety, that you were already taking.

If you are still having trouble with sleep, have you considered the Melatonin sleep aid from the health food store?

i will take jumbled thoughts over racing ones any day

Minipuff:

You said:

“I'm sort of reluctant to stop it completely (Buspar anti-anxiety medicine) bc things aren't crazy busy in my brain. I'm sort of feeling... indifferent to anxieties or stressors. I know they are there and I know normally I'd be getting upset but now I'm just sort of like... Oh well, let's see how this pans out.

“Is that good or is that bad?”

I think it’s great.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, as a bipolar, with my first pill of Lithium, “I felt like a 100-pound weight had been lifted off of my shoulders.” And, “I felt like an overly-inflated balloon that had the air let out of it.”

I didn’t know you were supposed to feel like that.

You also said, “I will note, my thoughts aren't racing at all but they are sort of jumbled. Especially when I'm trying to explain myself. As you can probably tell by the way things are written above.”
It looks like that’s your basic personality which is still there.

It does sound like you’re doing much better. If you know what I mean.
You say, here on October 21,2020, “My brain isn’t racing. My thoughts aren’t out of control.”
Here’s the way you sounded when you first wrote in about 41 days earlier on September 10, 2020:

“I'm spiralling out of control with panic attacks.

“And those of you with panic attacks know the spiral is always deeper and deeper with more what if what if what if. I'm not handling the change well. I understand this is life, I have no control, I must accept it. I can say those things but I can't stop my brain from making it into a nuclear bomb of terror and chaos. Racing thoughts, hot, cold, sweating, goosebumps, that suddenly burning feeling starting in your stomach and the burn goes out through your body, pounding heart. You know the deal.

“I hate changing meds. It's yet another phobia I have. I put it off and put it off. I don't even like taking the klonopin. I hate it so much. Last night was night 4 of no sleep.
Bc of my fears, I only took 1/4 of a tablet. Didn't sleep any better. Had anxiety. Got up with panic attack. Crying sobbing couldn't breath. Couldn't even do to work. I can't have this affecting my ability to work.

“Here are my qestions, now that I've blurted my week of chaos out to you...”

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So, that was on September 10, 2020. Today, some 41 days later, here on October 21,2020, this is what you’re sounding like:

“I just had a phone appointment with my psychiatrist. I am back to not sleeping that great but I'm not tired. My brain isn't racing. My thoughts aren't out of control. I'm just not tired. I sleep a few hours then I'm awake, wide awake."

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Did you read the part about my grandmother in the 1930’s, 1940’s and early 1950s? She had bipolar, like I do, and they didn’t have any medicine for it back then. So, we were born into a
very fortunate era when they have good and different medicines.

Can you imagine being in my mental state, or your mental state, or my grandmother’s mental state, and there’s no medicine? Again, we have a lot to be thankful for. Sounds like you have a very good psychiatrist. We have a lot to be thankful for.

I think, like you, that you should keep taking your medicine. What can happen, too, is, we get much improved and we believe we’re cured, and then for some reason, medical foul-ups, our own foul-ups, we quit taking our medicine. Maybe because we haven’t had any problems recently and we may think we’re not sick. We’re seemingly not, because of the medicine.

Here’s another thing that can happen, it’s happened to me twice. Something happens that gets us off schedule. The pharmacy doesn’t have the medicine for some reason, or we get a new psychiatrist and they say, “Why are you on this medicine?” I’ve had this twice, one a new, cold, anti-male psychiatrist who said on a Friday with no backup doctor for the weekend, “The way you get off Ativan is you quit taking it.”

Now, in a way she could have had a point, but once I got off one medicine, there on a Saturday, I noticed the lowering of side effects, and decided to get off the two other medicines I was taking. By Sunday, it was bad situation.

So, I’m saying you can get that occasional physical or mental bad doctor, and I think you have to beware. Also, because once you get off the medicine it might be hard to get back on because our minds aren’t thinking right.

As with this and other problems, have somebody or two you can talk to about that, or a website such as this.

As for sleep, I’ve found that a sleeping pad on low can help.

webmd.com says:

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"Why hasn't more research been done? One reason is that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) considers marijuana a Schedule I drug, the same as heroin, LSD, and ecstasy, and likely to be abused and lacking in medical value."

Dan has said before that what he found works for sleep was 6 mg. of Melatonin and 900mg of Valarian Root from the health food store or from the health section on a grocery store, or over the net. He said they sell it at Walmart by the name of "Knockout."

I would check with my pharmacist or doctor about that. I've taken both and didn't have any problems.

I'm sorry you're having trouble with sleep. I'm having that lately, too. I take Melatonin (4 mg) an hour before bedtime, one right at bedtime, then I can take another at about 4 a.m. A heating pad helps, and in winter (last night for instance) instead of a heating pad, I sometimes cut on a space heater at the right distance, and last night I slept 8 hours.

I accidently slept with the bedroom door open, which worked out just right for it really wasn't that cold last night.

Concerning marijuana for sleep:

I got to thinking about that reply concerning marijuana for sleep, and I remembered the one time I took one swallow of alcohol while I was on an anti-depressant. It was like I was in two different worlds, one going in one direction and one going in the other.

I never tried that again.

So I was wondering about marijuana's affect on doctor medicine. Not good.

It's like alcohol. It's like two forces going against each other.

docmj.com says:

Will Medical Marijuana Affect my Other Prescription Drugs?

The short and simple answer is “yes!” Drugs interact with other drugs. Even foods like grapefruit can react with drugs. Natural compounds found in medical marijuana can also affect drugs. Because medical marijuana has been illegal for about 80 years, a lot of time has been wasted. Studies that could have examined this issue have been very scarce, since it has been out of the loop.

On top of this, most orthodox doctors have little or no knowledge and experience in medical marijuana. That is why it is so important for you to include a Medical Marijuana Doctors Florida physician that has the experience to safely incorporate medical marijuana into your treatment regime. Click on this link to find out more about them: https://docmj.com/.

What are drug interactions?

A drug interaction is an interaction between a drug and another substance that prevents the drug from performing as expected. They are of concern, because they can reduce the desired effects or increase the adverse effects of the drugs. Interactions can be either an additive effect or a synergistic effect, where the effect is greater than the sum of the two parts. It can also be a negative effect, such as inhibition.

been on buspar myself these last 2 days . super upset over the fraudulent events . its working great.

It’s good to hear from you.

You say, “My anxiety is... A low but audible roar this past week. I was going to call my Dr and discuss increasing the buspar but I feel like I'm hoping for a miracle drug to completely stop all anxiety, fear and worry.”

You said you’re taking Prozac 60 mg. (which net says is an anti-depressant that also treats anxiety) and recently in last two weeks started taking Buspar 10 mg. (net says is anti-anxiety).

As for the Prozac, you said on 9-10-2020 you had been taking it “for years.”

Dan said on 10-6-2020, “could be after many years your prozac has stopped working? this is common with ssri drugs. i was on zoloft for 6 years and it stopped working . this is another thing to discuss with your dr.”

You said you’ve been taking Prozac for years. Did it work for you OK at the start? Did it quit working? For on 9-10-2020 you said:

“I can say those things but I can't stop my brain from making it into a nuclear bomb of terror and chaos. Racing thoughts, hot, cold, sweating, goosebumps, that suddenly burning feeling starting in your stomach and the burn goes out through your body, pounding heart. You know the deal.

“My psychiatrist has me on 60 mg of Prozac Sid, I've been on Prozac for years.”

You said the above had been going on for a week. So, was the Prozac holding back those feelings for years, and then a series of events broke through the Prozac? Is that what you think happened?

Is the Prozac working OK? And then you a month ago started the Buspar anti-anxiety at 5 mg., then a day or two later you were up to10 mg.

But with that you say now, on 11-8-2020, “A low but audible roar this past week. I was going to call my Dr and discuss increasing the buspar but I feel like I'm hoping for a miracle drug to completely stop all anxiety, fear and worry.”

Do you think the Prozac is doing it’s part?

In the search engine, I type in “medicines for anxiety,” and among the first five or so web sites, Webmd.com says,

“Examples of SSRIs that are commonly used to treat chronic anxiety include citalopram (Celexa), escitalopram (Lexapro), fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), and sertraline (Zoloft). The antidepressants duloxetine (Cymbalta) and venlafaxine (Effexor), SNRIs (serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors) which act on the brain chemicals serotonin and norephinephrine, and some of the tricyclic antidepressants like imipramine (Tofranil), may also help. Novel antidepressants such as mirtazepine (Remeron) are also prescribed at times.”

Post Edited (Tim Tam) : 11/8/2020 7:23:47 PM (GMT-7)