Posted by CK1 on February 1, 2005, at 14:29:27
Hi all,
I was diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder when I was 18 and was put on Paxil 10mg. This was a WONDER DRUG for the anxiety, cold, sweaty palms, nervousness, and took the edge off during social situations at only 10mgs. Anything more made me want to sleep too much. Well, it just stopped working a month and a half ago and I started getting nervous, jittery, agitated, and depressed (sleeping 12 hours a day).
I weaned off the Paxil and started Effexor XR 37.5mg two weeks ago (13 days) and have been THE MOST ANXIOUS I HAVE EVER BEEN! I realize that Effexor is very activating like Prozac and sometimes these SE's go away after two weeks. I also tried upping the dose to 75mg for one day and it just made the anger, agitation, anxiety, much worse. The depression "seems" to be gone but INCREASED anxiety has taken it's place. Since Paxil (a sedating AD) worked very well for me, would it be wise to go to another sedating AD like ZOLOFT???? Should I give Effexor another week? I hate this feeling of being soo uptight, not wanting to laugh, being pissed, etc. and the first two weeks of Paxil never caused this. Where should I go next???????????
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