Re: from citalopram to venlafaxine, good stories please!!!
Hi Pink
I’m still around, popping in now and again
Sorry to hear your news, you were doing well.
So you were only ven free for 2 mths?
There was nothing else going on at the time was there a Pink? Something that may of got your anxiety up? Or is it more depression?
I’m going through bad time at moment myself, the anxiety went sky high, but I think it was creeping in over a few months. I was feeling fed up some days
Partner was always saying everyday “what we doing today” it got on my nerves
Made me feel all the decisions were put on my shoulders. He’s the type guy that can’t stay in, always doing something ( not diy though!)
Anyway about month ago we had workmen in sanding floor 3 days, they said we weren’t aloud to stand on it till after 9pm and I got to over thinking
Where am we 3 going to go till 9pm. Story short it turned out ok, as I was nervous wreck so stayed in bed(they were doing 2 lounges and hall) partner and son did there own thing.
So now back on diazepam, morning are my worse. My appetite as gone at moment which doesn’t help.
Going seeing mh nurse on Thursday evening
How you feeling today
:bighug1:
Re: from citalopram to venlafaxine, good stories please!!!
Hi Clio, sorry you are having a tough time, you sound like me, mornings are the worst, had my meds upped today to 150mg, really hoping this will help, having to take diazapam as well, I lost my Brother last year to MND, he was only 54, and then had to look after my parents, so Gp thinks it is delayed reaction to all of that.
Know how you feel about the workmen, had a carpet fitted last week, and couldn't wait to see the back of them, just so tired and downm when i get better Clio, i won't be stopping the meds again,
Good luck on Thursday, let me know how things go, are you still taking meds ?
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Hi
So did going back on 37-5 do nothing?
Yer I read you lost your brother last year, very sad
Yer I’m still on 150mg venla, to scared to come off it I’ve read that much about coming off
Gp asked me about upping them!!! I’m even scared to do that. I’m not a med person but it got me out of a hole 5/6 years ago. Mine always seem to reappear every few years!!
Change,situation I think brings it on for me I think
I’ve a a funeral next week, I’m dreading it partners dad Dementia. Don’t think that’s helped me either going seeing him in nursing home wasting away very sad.
We’ve done it before Pink we can do it again, chin up and take it easy( easy said than done I know)
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When i got down to 37.5 mg i was fine, so thought i could handle stopping, i was so wrong.
Clio what brand of ven do you take ? i'm having to beg to get effexor as it is so expensive.
Sorry to hear about your father in law, and i know how hard it is to watch someone deteriorate, and there's nothing you can do,
Yes we have done it before, but it seems to be taking so long this time, thanks for your support, and i hope you have a better day xxxx
Re: from citalopram to venlafaxine, good stories please!!!
Hi Pink
I’m on Effexor, one of the gp’s changed everybody on Effexor to venlalic, I just told them I can’t take it it makes me sick. I’ve paid enough stamps in so I’m having the original stuff!
So now it’s on my notes
Are you anxious as well as depressed.? Are u both at home now(ie not working)
How’s it affecting you daily?
Bad morning again, I woke up with palpitations And it starkled me as I was asleep. Weird never happened before.
Have you got an appetite Pink? I’m finding it really hard to eat anything. I’ve lost 9lb but I do wish I could eat, I’m starving. I hate the thought of meal times as I really don’t fancy anything.
My tongue is so sore and dry (I’m drinking water enough) I don’t know if it’s heightened anxiety that’s causing it.
Also in the morning I have dry mouth, this sounds disgusting
But if I bring saliva in my mouth, I have to spit it out in the bathroom. It’s a creamy thick spit. Disgusting I know. Do you have anything like this? Or is it just me
It is so hard your right, and I frighten myself sometimes thinking I’ve been like this on and off for 30 odd years and it gets harder as you get older I find
How’s your day been? Xxx
Re: from citalopram to venlafaxine, good stories please!!!
Hi Clio, Mine this time has been anxiety, aggitation, with spells od low level depression, i couldn't eat either when i first started it lost 7lbs, and i still have the dry mouth in the mornings, sweats, and increased anxiety every time i up the dose, the worst thing for me is i can't settle to sit down in the morning, i have to be doing my housework, and then i am flaking out on the sofa, i'm also very tired.
I don't work now do you ? i can hardly get out above an hour at a time.
Today was really bad this morning, by about 3pm. i started to feel it get a bit better, but still relying on my Diazapam, which i take 2mg three times a day, 2 of which i take in the morning.
Yes the older you get, the harder it is to cope with it, Good luck for tomorrow :hugs:
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But does your tongue feel sore?
I hate anxiety, it must be the worse illness not being able to relax and get so agitated.
I’m so short tempered, and sometimes don’t want to talk sort of in my own world.
The thing I do is avoid family, they know but I can’t control or feel relaxed.
No I don’t work, thank god and don’t know how people say they have high anxiety and still hold a job. There’s absolutely no way I could sit in an offfice like I did feeling full of dread
AM I hate
PM. After tea. I begin sometimes settle and can watch bit of tv or able to concentrate I read book. Distraction
Bloody dreading my tea next:hugs:
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You sound exactly the same as me, i don't want anyone around either, get too stressed and feel like bursting into tears.
No i dont have a sore tongue, i have a bottle of water with me all morning, but o know you are doing that.
What are you hoping to get from your meeting tomorrow ? do you want to up your meds ?
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It’s so hard to pretend and want to talk, especially when your thinking hurt up leave me
I wish I didn’t have sore tongue, I’m gonna ask him as he heard of it before
I don’t know what to expect!
It only can’t to light last Friday speaking to Gp.
I tried to access my old care team, that I was under with my last episode.
Things have changed dramatically in my area accessing mh, you have to get Gp or yourself to refer to healthy Minds which is first point access.
I was a mess, crying shaking not eating etc and they just gave me Diazepam 5mg twice day
Told to wait to be accessed, 3 weeks it took
There is nowhere in my area where you can pick the phone up or go when your in a panic and just need someone only a&e.
In meantime Gp rang me, saying she’d had letter back from first point entry saying
They’d had a meeting and didn’t think from what doctor had written that I warrant secondary mh care(like last time) and you can only get into that category if you need psychiatrist.
I told her I’d had my phone appt, really waste of time. At the end of the call she said I could have cbt or counselling and to chose. I chose cbt, stage 3 there’s a 10/12 mth waiting list.
So she says the other option is we have a mh nurse at our other pratice, you could go and see him next week!!!! Why I never got this when I was in a right mess I don’t know
Anyway I don’t really know, I just know that he’s from the secondary mh team and can also prescribe drugs if needed and suppose to be good.
I’ve only got 30 mins appt, so I better talk fast lol
I actually managed small chippy tea yeahhhh, but tomorrow morning may be another day
:hugs:xx
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Good luck Clio, the mental health service is really bad, i have rang the crisis team, 111, and the samaritans in sheer desperation, so i know how you feel, it is the worst feeling in the world. Let me know how you get on, and hope you feel a bit better tomorrow :hugs: