Posted by jflange on June 2, 2007, at 10:16:58
In reply to jflange, posted by brooke484 on May 27, 2007, at 11:36:16
Hi Brooke-
sorry I have been out of the loop for a few days so it took me awhile to respond.i take zoloft and buspar for the panic/anxiety disorder caused by ptsd. i could not find relief on zoloft alone - in fact i continued to feel depersonalization and anxiety with almost all the ssris i tried. the zoloft kept me from having panic attacks but i still felt on the edge of having one a few times a day. that meant i felt strange and irritable and had depersonalization big time.
my pdoc suggested buspar or klonopin to curb the general anxiety and the depersonalization that i had when i anticipated or feared a panic attack - or just impending doom. i had tried both these meds before alone and they brought me only partial relief of my problems before. but i chose to take a low dose of buspar - titrating up slowly - to add to the zoloft and i can remember vividly the day when i realized i had been symptom free for a week. that was 2004 and I have continued to feel the same way since then.
i have never tried nardil so i can only hope you get the relief you had before. my pdoc explained to me that anxiety is often hard to treat with one medication alone since it accompanies many other disorders (e.g. my panic disorder). i can assure you though that depersonalization is almost always related to anxiety. if one medication is not your "magic bullet" then stay open to supplementing it with something else. Best of luck to you, jflange
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