Posted 10/4/2015 5:43 PM (GMT 0)
To try and keep this from being too long, I was making progress with anxiety in late winter/early Spring until someone I was interested in started a relationship with someone else. My self-esteem plummeted and I had a bit of rebound anxiety. When my doctor wanted to increase my dose of Prozac from 20 to 30 then 40 mg, I thought it was a good idea.
My panic attacks became more frequent, I'm assuming due to my body trying to get used to the increased dosage. This happened around the time I first joined this forum. I was convinced it wasn't working, I was switched to Zoloft. This seemed to work at first, but slowly I started to feel more and more detached from everything. An increased dose just made it worse.
As of the start of September, I have gone back to the 20mg Prozac and I'm feeling much better for it. Detachment is less and less, things feel more real, outside doesn't seem so daunting, and I have managed to go a full week without needing a Valium for the first time in months. Rather than bad days, it's more like "a bad couple of hours".
I suppose the moral of this story is that only you can know what is best for you. I should have known that the horrible way I felt at the start of this tale was temporary due to things beyond my control. Medication can ease symptoms, but it can't fix life events effects on you.