Hi All,
Sorry to be such a gloomy gus, but I'm just so confused right now that I'm not sure what I should (or shouldn't) do! What can I say exactly?!?!
On the prozac 60mg. I seemed to be doing fairly well, except that I felt like the anxiety was behind a "wall" trying to find it's way out. When I used to be on the zoloft years ago and later on the paxil, I had never felt that way before, so it was sort of a new feeling for me. I was not feeling like wringing my hands (good!) and pacing the floor (good!), but I still sensed an inner tension or absence of actual serenity. "Something" just wasn't quite "right".
So now my NP has increased my prozac to 40mg 2x a day. Since I started taking the higher dose on Tuesday, I have to go to the bathroom more urgently, but it is not overall diarrhea. I am feeling perhaps MORE tension and a general sense of unease since my dosage was increased. I make myself get up and do what I always do and go along as if everything is "normal" with me. I am hoping that I can "fake it till I make it".
Do I need to give the higher dose more time? Or should I go back to 60mg?
I wish that I could feel the way I felt before the zoloft and then the paxil pooped out! I mean, I still feel better on prozac than if I were on no AD at all, but I just do not understand WHY I should still feel any anxiety...I am taking 600mg of gababentin 2to3x a day for anxiety, as well as the max dose of buspar a day! I am blessed that I am not walking around having PAs and being afraid to leave the house, I know. But I want to be able to go along and feel okay.
So I am totally at sea as to what I should be looking for, hoping for, or should do or not do....
Can anyone offer an opinion, advice, etc.?
janet