Posted by Bill LL on August 1, 2005, at 10:23:38
In reply to Re: Anxiety or nervous agitation? YES! YES! YES!, posted by Cairo on August 1, 2005, at 8:16:29
Nervous agitation has always been my primary problem. Although raising my dose of Lexapro always helps, the higher doses leave me with more sexual dysfunction.
I have been having reasonable success with my current combination of Lexapro 15 mg and Provigil 400 mg. Both help with my agitation. Provigil counters the tiredness caused by Lexapro, and also has a certain calming effect on me.
Provigil also gives me more help with my ADD than I was able to get on 72 mg of Concerta, or 20 mg of dexedrine. Provigil gives more much longer ADD coverage than the other 2.
I might eventually see if I can switch from Lexapro to Lamictal to get rid of the sexual side effects. Or at least to lower the dose of Lexapro.
The sexual side effects I have from Lexapro are not terrible, but it would still be nice to reduce them if possible.
> A trial of Topamax caused outright panic attacks in me and after tapering off I'm left with the same feeling of physical anxiety as you described in the mornings and in the afternoons/evenings. Klonopin takes the edge off a only a bit, but I've got to be careful with dose - I can handle only 0.125 -0.25mg or it depresses me. And I feel hung over in the mornings when I take it at night with trazodone.
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> I don't like Klonopin but wonder what else to try to get rid of this nervous agitation without inducing some other side effect. I'm very sensitive to meds.
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> > When I had the worst anxiety (physical and mental), I would wake up in the mornings EVERY day with that horrible jumping around in either my stomach or my chest. It was so hard to describe, it was a very physical feeling.
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> > It always was in one or the other- never in both. And once I got up, moved around, ate something, it would go away.
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> > I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia (among 73 other diseases, ROFL), so I kind of wonder if my blood sugar was really low or something. It only seemed to happen in the morning.
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> > I hated that feeling!
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