Switching to Celexa
GlaxoSmithKline never answered my email about the availability of Paxil CR (Read post “Paxil CR will be unavailable“). I saw my psychiatrist this week and told him I don’t want to go back to regular Paxil because that was making me drowsy in the end of my using it which is why we switched to the CR. So he is weaning me off the Paxil CR and onto Celexa. He said the Paxil CR can be hard to get off of.
I asked him what can I expect and he was reluctant to give me signs and symptoms of the …
Paxil CR will be unavailable
I just received a letter from my mail order pharmacy informing me that Paxil CR will be unavailable from the manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline. They don’t know how long this situation will last. They tell me to speak with my doctor for a suitable replacement. And that there is a generic for Paxil but not for Paxil CR.
Are they kidding me? I have been taking Paxil CR for my anxiety and social anxiety and depression (successfully) for years. Now they are forcing me to switch and upset my delicate emotional balance? I am so upset with them. This happened before. I think …
Anticipatory anxiety plus social anxiety
I have a wedding to attend tonight. As I keep repeating, my anxiety is quite successfully under control with my Paxil CR and Neurontin. However, the roots of social anxiety run deep. I have had a bit of nervous anticipation about this affair for the last month. As the day got closer, I began to think in terms of “once the wedding is over”, regarding things like making a doctor’s appointment or completing some chore. There will be a sense of relief on Monday morning. Now i can deal with my life without this hanging over my head causing me …
Sleeping at the wrong time due to anxiety disorder and excessive worrying.
My anxiety is now under control most of the time thanks to my anti-anxiety medications - Paxil CR and Neurontin. (Read the post The Results of my visit to the psychiatrist and Your anxiety might be caused by a chemical imbalance in your brain. ) When the anxiety was free to enjoy itself in my brain, I often had trouble sleeping. When I would try to fall asleep my over active mind refused to stop its thinking. The anxiety disorder which caused me to think too much and worry about every little thing would render me sleepless.
During the day, I …
When anti-anxiety medication is not enough to control anxiety.
My daughter suffers from a very very severe case of anxiety disorder. (Read post My daughter needed help for her anxiety disorder.) She has lived a life controlled by worry and depression. At age 34, Beth is finally seeing the light. She is successfully using a cocktail of anti-anxiety medications (prozac, neurontin, klonopin) which have definitely decreased her anxiety. But the medication has not completed the task of controlling Beth’s anxiety sufficiently. She continues to be functioning in a limited capacity both in her personal and business life.
For 2 years her psychiatrist has been begging Beth to see a Cognitive …
Generalized Anxiety Disorder makes me think too much.
Right now I am obsessing about something that is bothering me. I just can’t shut off my brain. I just can’t stop thinking about this particular issue, which is something involving my family that I have absolutely no control over. Yet my overactive brain refuses to let go of this. My mind continues to torture me mercilessly by making me think and rethink and worry and dwell on this issue. What a waste of time and energy. What a shame. Here I am, completely aware of what my brain is doing to me, and yet unable to get a grip …
There is no cure for generalized anxiety disorder.
I came across a website that flaunts a cure for GAD. There is no such thing as a cure for a chronic illness. Like diabetes, for example, generalized anxiety disorder is a disease that can be controlled using the proper medication and/or therapy. Do not be seduced into thinking that you can go off your anti-anxiety medication just because you feel good. Anxiety disorder does not go away with time.
There is an annoying radio commercial that has a woman with a silky voice cooing about the symptoms of anxiety and saying that you should not have to take a pill …
Antibiotics can throw off my balance of anti-anxiety & anti-depressant medications
I am getting over a sinus infection that was overlapped with the flu. So that is about 3 weeks all told that I have been taking either an antibiotic and/or Tamiflu. And today I am feeling really cranky and sad. My anxiety and depression are getting the upper hand.
I have had similar experiences of feeling like crap after having other upper respiratory illnesses. My psychiatrist has always reminded me that the physical illness plus the medication taken for it can upset the balance of mood, calm, attitude, that I have achieved by taking Paxil and Neurontin. So, while I know in …
Physical illness due to anxiety disorder
When my son was hospitalized with Crohn’s Disease at age 19, I felt like the world was going to end. I am not exaggerating. My level of concern was off the wall. I was not yet seeing a psychiatrist for my anxiety (Read the post “The results of my visit to the psychiatrist“), nor taking my Paxil or Neurontin. Since the day my children were born, I lived in dread that something would happen to them (Read the post “Becoming a mother made my anxiety worse, or was it vice versa?”). This was like a horrible self fulfilled …
When anxiety clouds my head
While I was taking my shower this morning, I was thinking about the fact that I am missing my therapy appointment this week since my therapist will be away. I feel fine about that since right now I have no outstanding issues that I feel frantic about. Then I began to think about that franticness, and how it affects my thinking.
When I am worried (as in becoming panicky) about something, it can be hard to have an appropriate reaction to that “thing”. Appropriate is a loose term, I know, but I think you realize that I mean a “not off the …
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