Posted by blueberry on June 12, 2006, at 18:43:19
In reply to Meds for THIS TYPE OF ANXIETY?????, posted by UgottaHaveHope on June 12, 2006, at 14:01:11
Depakote first choice. Lithium second choice. Combine them third choice.
If it were anxiety, I would think the klonopin and seroquel would have put more of a damper on it than they have. It could easily be a form of mania. Some types of mania look a lot like what you describe and are hard to tell from anxiety except for their fierceness.
Since you recently started paxil, that is a factor too. In the long run it should help, but right now it is probably compounding the anxiety before it has a chance to work. But then again, if it is a form of mania, the paxil could be adding fuel to the fire.
Depakote is easy to try. All you need is one week at 500mg extended release per day or 1000mg per day. If it is going to help, you will feel something within that short of a time. I had a viscious anxiety/mania/akathisia thing last year (still not sure what it was) that was very much like what you describe, and depakote shut it down beginning the first day and it was almost completely shut down by day 4 and was indeed completely gone at a week.
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