Scaredsusie

[Altostrata]

When do you take the Buspar and when do you get the anxiety symptoms? Please keep good notes.

[scaredsusie]

I take the buspar at 830am and at 3pm. I got anxiety at 1030am yesterday but had it all night and woke up with it this morning. The buspar actually seemed to help subside it this morning. I have started a journal. Could melatonin help at night?

[Skyler]

Here you go Susie. http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/189-melatonin-for-sleep/?hl=melatonin

[scaredsusie]

Magnesium in a multi vitamin I took a couple of years ago actually kept me awake, and fish oil gives me really bad acne. I'm not sure what to try. Any suggestions?

[Altostrata]

There might have been something else in the multivitamin, such as B vitamins, that kept you awake. Try magnesium glycinate or citrate in a separate pill.

 

Please put your recent withdrawal history in your signature, instructions: http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/893-please-put-your-withdrawal-history-in-your-signature/

Edited March 16, 2014 by Altostrata
fixed link

[scaredsusie]

Alto when I hit on that link it takes me to something else about benzo's

[Altostrata]

I fixed it. Try again.

[scaredsusie]

I feel like committing myself. I don't want to but this is so hard. I feel like I'm losing my mind again, I can't see properly, I'm super sad and don't see a way out. I was doing pretty good up until now too. I need this to end

[Skyler]

Susie, I don't know if this is true for you, but my experience with waves is they get worse just before the window kicks back in. For the life of me, I don't know why, and it's not something I've seen much discussion of on the forum, but I always felt like throwing the towel in (like there really was a choice), just before the wave subsided. About made me think I was going round the bend. Hold fast, your window will reappear!

[scaredsusie]

It's not even anxiety. It seems to start from nothing looking right and I go into a deep depression because I don't want to keep going through this. Why is nothing helping

[scaredsusie]

My cycle is due to start in 2 days, could this be adding to things?

[Skyler]

My cycle is due to start in 2 days, could this be adding to things?

Oh Gosh, yes, big time. Errr, not sure why you would think they would not? I can't imagine loading one on top of the other.. Merdre... but it does sound like you will feel better in another day or so.

[scaredsusie]

Thanks for helping me skyler and talking me through this right now. I've calmed down a little but this is really scaring me

[scaredsusie]

Does this really get better? I read an article tonight that says it can be permanent

[dalsaan]

I don't believe its permanent and I know its not positive to think that.  Your cycle will definately disturb your system further and thus exacerbate symptoms.  It does for me.

 

Take care

 

Dalsaan

[mammaP]

Hi Susie, yes it does get better. I almost had myself admitted to the psych ward at one stage.

I just couldn't go on but thankfully I didn't. That is a certain path to heaps more drugs being thrown at a problem 

that is caused by drugs!  I sat in the doctor's office and just couldn't do it knowing that I would be given more drugs

so I told him about my painful shoulder instead!  It was the lovely folk here that made me think about what I would

be doing.  That time passed for me and it will pass for you too. Get through each day and grab at the good moments.

Hold them in your memory, so that you will remember that good moments do come and they will get longer and more

frequent.  I agree with Dalsaan that your cycle will absolutely be making things worse! 

 

I hope you get some relief soon. 

[scaredsusie]

Thanks dalsaan and mamma p. The cycling of these moods really makes me think I'm crazy or do have some other disorder. Never have I experienced anything like it. I wish I could wins back time so badly

[scaredsusie]

How do I know if buspar is helping cause the insomnia

[Altostrata]

If you reduce the Buspar and your symptoms get better, you know you're having a bad reaction to Buspar. If they get worse, the Buspar was helping something. You need to give each experiment at least 4 days.

 

If you're cycle is coming on, that makes interpreting the effects of Buspar very difficult. Many women have much worse symptoms at different points in their menstrual cycle.

[scaredsusie]

My anxiety is quite a bit worse. I should probably take a full one again. It's been 3 days. Didn't change the sleep, but I heard you have to be off it totally for a few days to see that and I don't think that would be good.

[scaredsusie]

After I took a full buspar again yesterday afternoon instead of half, the anxiety decreased quite a bit. My eyes were tired and the vision and focus was bothersome still but I had a fairly good window. I was tired and relaxed and went to bed at 10pm. I never got to sleep at all. I laid there all night. Not much anxiety at all but still no sleep. What can I do

[Altostrata]

It seems the Buspar is helping somewhat.

[scaredsusie]

I can't tell you how much I appreciate your help Alto. Thank you

[scaredsusie]

Can anyone tell me if they have experienced what I seem to be with my eyes. They feel strained and my vision is not clear. It almost feels like I've had them dilated but my pupils are normal size. It's really bothersome. I surrounded by lights and work at a computer screen, but I didn't have this before

[Skyler]

Do you have dry eyes? Did you try some saline drops?

[scaredsusie]

They don't appear to be dry no. They actually water.

[Altostrata]

Scaredsusie, please summarize your drug situation in your signature, see http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/893-please-put-your-withdrawal-history-in-your-signature/
 

Zoloft 1998-2001
Fluoxetine 2001-2013
Lexapro 2013 1day
Paxil oct 2013-feb 3rd
Lexapro 3 days
Zoloft 6 days
Paxil 6 days
Buspar now 15 days

Did you ever adjust the Prozac to 5mg, as we discussed below???
 

Welcome, Scaredsusie.
 

Now my dr wants to add fluoxetine back, saying the long half life will help withdrawal and it's only been 4 months since taking it as she says I should have responded to the 5 mg of paxil if it was this "so called" discontinuation. Ugh. Help please

Your doctor is wrong. It sounds very much to me like you have antidepressant withdrawal syndrome and not bipolar disorder. (I wouldn't expect much sense from her but she did suspect withdrawal syndrome, so points to her for that.)

However, going on Prozac at this point might work. I would try 5mg first for a week before going up to 10mg. It may take some weeks for this to reduce the neurological chaos, so give it a chance.

The reason I'd go with Prozac is, once you stabilize on it, it's easier to go off than Paxil. See http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/759-tips-for-tapering-off-prozac-fluoxetine/

Please keep in touch and let us know how you're doing.

 

 
 

Thanks Petu and tezza. I'm actually taking 10mg because my dr can only get capsules with my insurance and that's the lowest they come. I had the worst anxiety about 5am this morning and the racing craziness, and I just kept trying to get through it. I'm just not able to sleep and it's awful. Then my vertigo hit. I haven't had that in 2 years or so. I think it's the buspar. Just don't know what to do. Feel better after getting up a little bit.

 
 

Alto, if I want to only take 5mg of prozac dr said to do the compound way. There is no real pattern to my symptoms. They just come and go.

 
 

Please keep notes on paper about your symptoms and when you take your drugs. This is important.
 
Prozac comes in a liquid, you can order it from a regular pharmacy. It may be less expensive than a compounded prescription.
 

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Yes, if I were you, I'd reduce the Buspar by half and see if that helps your symptoms.

 

[scaredsusie]

I'm still at 10mg because my prescription for liquid isn't done yet

[scaredsusie]

I did do my signature like you said on my computer. I use my phone during the day.

Is it not showing. It allowed me to save it

[scaredsusie]

It has been 6 days now on 10mg and I thought I've had some windows. Do you think I still need to go down?

[Altostrata]

What is the pattern of your current symptoms? Where are you in your menstrual cycle?

[scaredsusie]

It started yesterday. This eye thing has been the very first symptom of withdrawal (I guess that's what it is) and it's been the most constant that I have it. Now it seems to get worse mid afternoon. Not sleeping at all. Wake up with slight anxiety and jittery. Today and yesterday got slight headache and dizziness about noon. Not too bad. But have started to feel more myself at times and less anxiety throughout the day

[Meimeiquest]

I believe I've read in Dr. Healy's writings of vision. I think the eyes are closely connected to serotonin, I read somewhere that the.retinas are the source of 5% of the body's serotonin supply. I hope you can find a stable place soon!

[scaredsusie]

Will it go away. I'm scared

[Altostrata]

Scaredsusie, it's important to keep notes on paper about your symptoms and when you take your drugs.

 

What time of day do you take Prozac? What time of day do you take Buspar?

 

Do you spend a lot of time looking at a computer screen, a smartphone, a tablet, or a TV?

[scaredsusie]

I take my buspar at 8am and 3pm and prozac at 11am. I keep a journal. I spend all day at work from 12 to 8 on a computer screen and florescent lights in break rooms