Posted by blueberry on February 18, 2006, at 15:10:59
In reply to Confused regarding choice of med presecribed, posted by Op27Nr2 on February 18, 2006, at 12:20:09
Sounds overly aggressive to me. The likelihood of abilify actually increasing your anxiety for a couple weeks is pretty high. It's just my opinion, but if you have a second opinion coming and you just want to survive until then, there are a couple options.
Health food store. Get an amino relaxing supplement that has gaba, taurine, glycine, and inositol. All natural and good for you. Another one that is sublingual has gaba, taurine, glycine, and tyrosine. And try some magnesium glycinate. Magnesium is calming and so is the glycine in it. Though these work wonders for some people, for most people they will just help take the edge off.
Another option is to call the doctor who prescribed the xanax and ask for two things: 1) A trial of .5mg xanax 3 to 4 times a day for 3 days. 2)A trial of .5mg to 1mg klonopin once or twice a day for 3 days. Go from there. The benzos are like antidepressants, you just have to try a few to find the right one.
While you are waiting, go online and do a search on cortisol saliva test. You can get it done mailorder and it's not very expensive. The doctors won't check this. But if your anxiety is high, cortisol will also be high, and that will eventually wear out the adrenal glands to where cortisol will be way low and you'll really be in a bad place then. If cortisol tests high, it can easily be lowered along with the anxiety with a natural supplement of common minerals called Seraphos.
It's true that anxiety and depression go hand in hand. I just get the sense from your post that the anxiety may be causing some depression, not the other way around.
Just some thoughts and ideas.
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