Posted by rod on December 25, 2001, at 13:13:11
I am taking 40 mg of Citalopram (does not help me much). A few days ago I started anafranil (37,5 mg), quick response at the first 3 days (really started feeling good), then got worse again. After 1 week dosage of anafranil up to 75 mg - > very bad (anxious, confused) - > reduced to ~20 (a quater of the pill)- > felt better again. 1 week quater of pill - > felt good the time, and increased it to 37,5 - > bad again.
Question: Should I listen to my body or my Doc (he wants me to take 75 mg). I do not believe that the path to relief goes through hell at the first few steps. Too many times I believed Doctors and then the medication directed me into a dead end. But my Doctors opinion is that treatment of anxiety disorders (I have GAD, social phobia and thereby caused depression), with medication fist leads to an increase of anxiety, panic until the "counter-reaction" of the body "heals" the illness. I dont know if I should believe him (he does a lot of research in hospital and university, so he is indeed a specialist, in some way). If anyone tells me that his way of treating anxiety patients is right (incuding ignoring patients personal opinion), I might obey his orders.thanks
rod
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