Posted by 4WD on May 5, 2008, at 20:33:57
In reply to Re: What could be causing this scaredness, posted by bleauberry on May 5, 2008, at 18:32:18
> No idea 4WD. If you did not have these problems before, then clearly one of the drugs is causing it. Or not necessarily one of the drugs, but maybe some quirky interaction. My pure gut instincts point the finger, in descending order, at either Geodon, Trazodone, or Nardil. Since your primary goal is go with Nardil, you might have to get off the others one at a time and see. You could possibly substitute in a straight across trade zyprexa for geodon, or seroquel for geodon.
I kind of thought the same thing. That's why i've lowered the Geodon from 80 to 60. After a week or so I'll try lowering it more. I don't think it's the Trazadone at least I hope not. It's my sleep med and keeps me from waking up scared in the morning. I skipped it one night and woke up scared when I don't ususally get scared for an hour or two. Can't take Zyprexa or Seroquel. I'm a recovering bulimic and both those drugs return me to active bulimia within a a day or two.
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> The only other thing I could think of is that if you are predisposed to some kind of mania or psychosis or something like that, some strange permutation of the bipolar spectrum, nardil may be setting it off.I hope it's not the Nardil setting it off. I don't think it is, because I had a period like this long before I ever started Nardil. I was at one time a few months ago taking 6-8mg of Klonopin a day because I could not get rid of the fear no matter how much I took.
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> Really really frustrating and scary when we get off to a decent start with something and then a few weeks later it's out of control with no clue what's going on. I wish I had some better ideas for you. I mean, in the short term playing around with the benzos is about all you can do and is what I would be doing too, but past the short term I have no idea. Something in those meds isn't right.
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I am truly playing around with benzos. I was taking as much as 30mg a day of Valium along with 1mg of Klonopin. Today and for the next week I am going to increase the Klonopin back up to 2mg a day, take only 10mg of Valium and use Xanax 1mg as needed. My husband pointed out to me that since I have been on Valium I have been more depressed. I was tapering the Klonopin with idea of just being on Valium alone and at first it was working. Then this starting happening. The Xanax seems to work really well. I went to the urgent care clinic and the doc there gave me a few for emergencies. I am going to ask my pdoc to let me try a one week trial of Xanax instead of Valium when I talk to him on Thursday.> Blood sugar was mentioned. Yeah, that is something to check easily with a glucose meter from walmart. Just to rule it out if nothing else.
I guess I could buy a monitor but I really don't think it's blood sugar. Why would my blood sugar suddenly go out of whack? And Idon't think a spell of hypoglycemia could possibly cause the level of fear I feel.
Thanks for responding
Marsha
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