Posted by anxiously fedup on June 29, 2004, at 20:22:30
Hi,
I have never posted to a board before but I just signed up for your forum. I have had anxiety attacks/panick and ocd but just like obsessive compulsive thinking for several years now. I am 31 and have stuck with treatment on and off over the years but for the past 5 years I have really been trying. I have gone through so many medications it is frustrating at this point. I have a great wife, I have a very good job, and this problems sucks.
I have tried prozac twice, both times for like 6 to 9 months at 120mg. It works OK but my motivation is awful when I take it, I have gained 30 pounds and don't eat all that much more than I use to, and i am very tired all the time.
I tried paxil but had some weird chest palputations, tried zoloft but to many side effects, tried luvox with to many side effects, tried serzone and no luck-plus that is real bad now I have heard for your liver. I have tried anafranil but To many side effects, tried effexor for a couple weeks but I was drinking alot at the time due to stress, which is a poor excuse and wound up stopping it because I drank and blacked out one night, smashed up my car. I don't normally drink much at all, maybe just a couple beers on the weekend here or there. I use to and sometimes still like to smoke a little marijuana because it relaxes me most of the time, although sometimes I have had bad anxiety from it. Do you think I need to give some of the other meds another try, maybe effexor? I have read all over the internet that people have had great luck with effexor while others say the side effects and medication will kill you. Please give me any advice you can? I have been to a few psychiatrists and the one I see now seems to be the best but I am completely frustrated by what to try next and how to deal with this?
poster:anxiously fedup
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