Posted by KaraS on January 28, 2005, at 1:32:29
In reply to Pls, I need help re: feelings of dread and benzos, posted by Colleen D. on January 27, 2005, at 19:18:32
> Even though I'm taking Cymbalta and clonazepam, I still get these moments of can best be described as dread or doom. Today it was like a switch flipped in my brain when I went to start my van in the frigid temps and discovered that I had left my lights on when I arrived for work and my battery was dead. Yes, I had to find someone with jumper cables to give me a hand and then I had to pick up my children at daycare. I wasn't in real rush but I got this awful sense of doom and a knot in my stomach. It took just a few minutes to get on the road, but that feeling stayed with me and spoiled what I felt had been a very good day for me.
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> What is this? Is this a panic attack, or plain old anxiety or even benzo-induced depression? This happens to me several times a week and I can't stop it. I really don't think the situation was stressful enough to warrant my reaction. I happened to have some Xanax in the med cabinet too so when I got home I took .5mg Xanax and that didn't help at all. Then I took another .5mg about 20 minutes later and began to feel better. I'm fine now. I'm just trying to figure out what in the world is happening to me at these times and what the best thing to do is. Should the clonazepam be preventing these episodes if I'm taking 1mg per day divided into two doses?
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> Please help. I need to find a way to stop this!
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> Thanks,
> Colleen
> PPD, GAD and OCDBenzos can cause rebound anxiety as they're wearing off. Could that be what you're experiencing?
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