Feel Like I'm On a High Wire W/O a Net Sometimes....

"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."
This beggar wishes she could get a script for a benzo. No can do.
Earlier this year, the paxil seemed to stop working as it should, so I was switched to Effexor which did okay for the anxiety, but made me a very angry person all the time!! So then I was switched to Prozac, which I am still on. I seemed to be doing fairly well until I got the mammogram scare. I seem to get a little better, then I get worse. It's a see-saw ride. I'm not sure what to think or what I should do, if anything.
For 2 months, no menstrual period and then there's the change of seasons. It's like there's a pall settled over everything. In a way, I feel like I could cry and in another way, I feel like I have no tears. All day long I've been on edge, but not panicky. I've been taking niacinamide and holy basil and taurine to help me along. I imagine it has.
But I wonder if maybe another AD would be better for me than Prozac?
I don't know! I'm at my wits' end though. I just went to my NP last week and am not due to go back until 11/3. I told her that I thought the niacinamide was helping. Some days I seem better than others. Some days I feel better one moment and not so the next...blah.
Sigh.
janet

wearyRAsufferer said...
My GYN gave me my prescrip for xannax-why not schedule a visit and describe your anxious feelings as you are going thru menopause?

Are you on any other drug from a shrink? I know that my GP won't give me anything b/c of me already going to the mental health clinic, so maybe the gyn would be the same?
janet

Thoughts and prayers JL!!

I hope that you can find what you need to best manage your anxiety.

Have you tried or considered Vistaril? Similar to the feel of a benzo (tranquilizing effect) but not considered habit forming...so your dr. might be more willing to prescribe it?

Something to think about?

S.C.

Thanks Everyone,
SC, Vistaril never seemed to do a thing for me. Wished it had.
I just keeep on plugging along day by day.
janet

I'm in the benzo camp in that I've been taking Xanax for decades. I'm also on Prozac. Mind you, this is a balancing act, and it's about finding the right tools that can help. It saddens me to see just how many posts we have that are similar in nature, that docs are under-prescribing out of a possible fear or personal prejudice.

It's not the medication itself, but how it's managed. Just like you can use a paring knife to peel an apple, that same paring knife in someone else's hand could slip and cut. Maybe that's a weird analogy, but, you know what I'm getting at, yes?

There is no "one med fits all" type of category, and I would think they'd at least help you to get through these rough times with some assistance.





M.