Posted by scleme1 on April 21, 2014, at 10:32:59
40 year-old male. On Paxil 40mg for approx. 12 years. Switched to Sertraline 200mg about 2 year ago. Anxiety and OCD diagnosis.
I've been getting an inner nerves/restlessness/butterflies feeling most every night at bedtime. It feels like energy is building up inside me and I have to flip over in bed to ease the feeling, then it starts building again and the whole process begins again, over and over, until I finally fall asleep. I typically read/play games on my iphone before falling asleep. I can feel the inner tension building as I am playing on my iphone, until I'm forced to put it away and begin moving around to try and alleviate the feeling.
It's hard to describe. It's more a physical feeling as opposed to a mental anguish. It's not intolerable.Yet. However, I'm starting to feel the tension slowly creeping in during the day.
The feeling comes and goes. It doesn't happen every night, and mostly happens when I think about it/start worrying about it. Same thing happened several months ago adn it seemed to work itself out...only to return again recently. I've tried taking a small dose of Propranolol, but it doesn't help. At all.
I have several questions for the pros here on babble. Do you guys think this is Akathisia? Do you think it's being caused by Zoloft? What should I do about it? I really like my Zoloft, so is there any risks with taking something to help with the feeling and stay on the Zoloft? I don't want this to be permanent (of course), so I will change meds if I have to, but would prefer not to change.
Thanks so much for any dvice/help you can give!
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