Posted by chess on August 1, 2004, at 10:49:17
In reply to used to heroin for painrelief, efexor, how long?, posted by carriejane on August 1, 2004, at 5:20:43
hi carriejane
your story sounds a lot like mine, only i never did heroin but vicodin did the trick for me which i find interesting because they're both opiates, maybe we both have some kind of opiate problem in our brain chemistry, anyways i've tried zoloft and celexa with limited success, they may have helped a little for panic but not with the chronic anxiety-depression feeling, i'm trying klonopin right now, if that doesn't work then my doc might try me on a mood stabilizer (she's mentioned neurontin, gabatril, and lamictal). One more thing, when i first started feeling crappy and start getting panic attacks i would drink some whiskey which would immediately help me feel better but then after a while the whiskey started to not work anymore and just made me feel drunk but not calm, then vicodin came along after i had an operation and i felt "normal" again but i stopped taking the vicodin because i was afraid of getting hooked on it, and so now i guess i'm looking for a med that works as well as vicodin for me that's not addictive or a controlled substance.
> Ive tried prosac mirtazapine and citalapram without sucess, now im on my 6th day of efexor. The way my depression affects me is i feel fear alot of the time, especially leading up to and actually being in crowded places, or new places, or even when i think people are looking at me. I often feel unacceptable, ugly or freakish even though logically i know i am not.
> I sweat, and become angry inside. I used alcohol in teens along with speed and extasy, because of a troubled childhood, then i progressed to heroin which at the time i thought was the answer to my prayers, the peace inside id craved all my life. I ended up in rehab, did lots of extension treatments ie: secondary and 3rd stage. So there was counselling etc. Anyway since coming off the heroin and all the therapy, i still feel this fear often, i lack motivation, i find intimacy soo hard, and alot of the time i feel resentful of waking up at all. Sleep is salvation.
> Has anyone else been through similar? And tried efexor, how long will it take to kick in?
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