Hi, so this past month and a half has been pretty difficult for me. I started to try medication again after 2 years of debilitating anxiety. What really got me is the inability to move forward, the muscle pain, chronic shortness of breath, feeling my stomach all the time, and sleep problems. Basically, my body feels like it's in a constant state of panic, and my biggest problem is sleep and waking up in pain every day. It feels like I work out in my sleep and wake up in that horrendous anxiety... like I can feel the stress in my body/skin.
So, the first med I tried was Viibryd. The only good thing about that is that it relaxed my muscles, however, I had ALOT of bad side effects...I think i got a skin rash too that I noticed, but my body felt so heavy and relaxed and I liked that part of it, but after a week and increase of dosage, I couldn't take it the side effects.
So, I swapped to Zoloft (went from 50 to 100mg over 3 weeks), and I actually sometimes felt a little tiny bit like my normal self. It definetly elevated my mood, however, the muscle pain especially in the morning came back and it felt worse and worse and I just didn't want to do anything physical at all and was depressing me. IT just didn't feel to get better at all, so I called doc and he swapped me to another med.
So now, I'm on Escitalopram 10mg for the past week and while it may have seemed like it may have eased the muscle pain as I'm not stressing about it as much, I do feel like I have gotten worse. I'm still waking up in anxiety and in muscle pain (muscle spasms in the morning.) Monday was a very bad day, Tuesday as not as bad, but today again I wake up in the muscle pain and anxiety and I just hate life because of how I feel in the morning and I have things to do, phsyical things, but I'm chained down with this anxiety and its just hard to move forward.
With that said, I was hopping to find out if this is normal when you swap meds? I want the lexapro to work because I've now tried 5 meds with no luck. Do I need to give it 6 more weeks for this one to work? I wish I could try Trintellix (my first med I tried a year ago) again because I remember it helping a little but its too expensive and I'm worried I might lose my insurance next month, and definetly will be losing it this year.