Posted by temoigneur on February 12, 2005, at 3:40:45
In reply to nothing like a sedating TCA for anxiety/panic, posted by KaraS on February 8, 2005, at 18:39:18
Hi, Kara, I've had severe anxiety/OCD for 10+ yrs, I read that tricyclics share some things with antipsychotics. Clomipramine feels quite similar to zyprexa, I feel numb, detached, dull, with really littl drive of any kind> . I've never combined Clomipramine with a stimulant - in your opinion, is this worth trying, if I could get my mind back, this would be a miracle, stimulants, make me obsessive, and produce emotionaly lability - please let me know if anyone has experience combining a tricylic for anxiety with something to stimulate them, where their OCD/anxiety would have previously been aggravated,
Ben
I just started on a small amount of doxepin a few days ago and I'm already seeing amazing results. My anxiety was so bad that I was not able to eat or sleep - the only things I managed to consume were Gatorade and Ensure. Also, I was starting to get agoraphobic. Now I'm eating and sleeping again. I'd say that my anxiety is about 90% under control. I don't know why this isn't used more for anxiety. Maybe because it's old, it's cheap, it's dirty and it's not terribly lucrative for the drug companies. It's not a long-term solution for me but it will enable me to tolerate other medications that I've been unable to tolerate recently because they were too stimulating.
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