Posted by lizzyg on March 22, 2002, at 4:06:47
In reply to Re: SAM-eLizzy G., posted by colin wallace on March 21, 2002, at 15:43:15
Colin and Ron
Many thanks for your feedback. I saw my GP this morning and - as you rightly predicted - she didn't have a clue about SAM-e. She almost had a fit when I suggested combining ADs ('we only like monotherapy') and was preaching about how benzos can give you withdrawal symptoms after just one week. So not satisfactory on that front.
She took my pulse and said it seemed OK, and that most heartbeat irregularities are benign, and mine is probably due to the anxiety. But shes's booked me in next week to have a blood test to check out my thyroid.
Like you, Colin, with me the anxiety goes hand-in-hand with the depression. I've found with TCAs that the anxiety went when the depression lifted, but that effect doesn't seem to be happening (yet?) with the SAM-e. Any other ideas of what I can do for the anxiety? (Ron - it's not irritability, but being unable to sit still and feeling panicked. At the moment, obsessing that my heart's about to give out at any moment!)
Thanks again
Lizzy
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