Posted by bleauberry on January 14, 2008, at 19:05:52
In reply to My Anxiety is so Bad..Can anyone Relate to this ??, posted by garyengelm on January 14, 2008, at 16:04:41
Yeah, I can relate.
You should try zyprexa. You really should. I know your symptoms. I know zyprexa.
I also think it is important to have an ssri as a base. Even if it is just a low dose or ultralow dose of something like zoloft, celexa, or lexapro.
The serzone obviously sucks. I don't know why you are still with it. Still depressed. Massive anxiety. Geez, enough already. It would be way to long if I went into detail, but when you figure in how serzone messes with the liver and how it influences cortisol and the adrenal glands, the drug itself could be more than half of your problems.
Zyprexa. SSRI. Ditch the serzone. Use higher doses of benzos during the weaning process.
As a sidenote, the way serzone affects liver metabolism you could be chewing up your benzo a lot faster than normal. Higher doses and more frequent doses would be needed just to achieve blood levels of what would be considered normal target doses. Simply said, due to the presence of serzone, your benzo is a lot less than what it says on the bottle. I wonder if your doctor has told you about the CYP3A4 enzyme and how serzone affects other drugs through that enzyme?
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