Posted by Ame Sans Vie on September 28, 2003, at 3:22:27
In reply to Re: Q. for Ame Sans Vie,, posted by Jasmine Neroli on September 27, 2003, at 16:22:20
> Hi Michael:
> I was just reading this thread for interest and education, but when I read your post about all your physical pain (as well as the mental health issues I already knew about) I felt it necessary to tell you how strong you have been and how determined you are to solve your problems! You are amazing! I know this isn't the "support" board, but I want to give u mine , at this point. You have encouraged me in the past, over medication issues, so now it's my turn!!!
> Take care and keep on :)
> JasHiya!!
Thank you so, so much -- all the encouragement certainly means a great deal to me. :-)
> P.S. I'm still trying to find the right combo of meds for my anxiety, which is increasing again. For some reason, I am making poor life decisions lately, and taking dumb risks, which is then creating more anxiety. I don't even know myself anymore...my whole personality/value systems seem to have changed over the course of the past 2 years of GAD (or whatever I've got).
Oh, believe me, I can relate to that like no one else. Hardly a thing about me has remained untouched and intact since the illnesses set in. It's sickening to think of... but I'm working on it, and I know I'm making progress because my grandmother (who lives 1,300 miles away) spoke with me on the phone the other day for a few moments, then when I handed to the phone to my mom, my grandma told her, "Now *that's* the Mike I remember!" She (and the rest of my mother's family) is in southwest PA, and I moved from there to here in southeast TX seven years ago.
> Buspar (20mg) per day has not kicked in yet (after 2 weeks) and I still need to add Klonopin to survive somedays....even tho' my psych wants me tapering off, to see if Buspar will work. Don't you feel like it's a never-ending circle??? Ha!
> I'm gonna go listen to NIN "Downward Spiral", paradoxically, I think it will help!Hmm, now that you've used a benzodiazepine, chances are that BuSpar won't be helpful for you... statistically speaking. But the dosage of BuSpar can be pushed far higher with very few (and quite often no) side effects.
Oh, and I LOOOOOOOVE 'The Downward Spiral'! :-) Hurt is such a beautiful song... and of course it's hard to beat Closer. ;-)
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