Posted by johnnyj on March 11, 2007, at 10:19:42
In reply to xanax as trigger for depression?, posted by tessellated on March 10, 2007, at 17:02:47
At first I was better on tranzene as it helped the anxiety but it appeared to make my sleep unrestful. I was on it over a ten year period and after one year of the doctor raising my dose from 7.5 to 22.5 it made me depressed and I couldn't get any restful sleep. After taking many months of weaning and periods of worse depression when going off I started to feel better. Strange thing I slept about 9 hours when weaning off but felt horrible in the morning. I was on remeron at the time so I think it was helping my sleep. REM rebound bigtime when weaning off tranzene.
I have just stopped a two week trial of Klonopin and it was making me worse and when I would get to a time of day when I believe it was washing out of my system it made the anxiety worse than when I started it. I stopped it two days ago and am feeling better. I had to take Ambien the last two nights and when it clears my system the same type of anxiety arrives but not as bad as klonopin.
I believe these are all GABA drugs and I guess maybe they are not for me. I have never tried xanax but since the half life is shorter I assume it would make me very anxious too when washing out.
This is my difficult because I am not sure how to start an ssri with this problem.
johnnyj
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