Lcon
26-01-14, 22:57
Hi,
I am a 34 year old mother of a 2.5 year old boy. I have dealt with anxiety and depression since high school but over the last two years the anxiety has gotten progressively worse, especially regarding health issues.
I am currently taking 20 mg of lexapro and because I want to try for another baby started tapering about 1.5 months ago to 15 mg. everything was going fine. I got a very bad sinus infection and was out on antibiotics for ten days and it seemed to go away. Two days after ending the antibiotics I started getting head pain and pressure in my temples, forehead and top back of head. Assuming it was sinus related I went back to doc and got a z-PAC, which did nothing. I then went to a ENT who checked my sinuses and said they looked clear. She worries about temporal arteritis so she had a blood test (sed rate) done. It came back normal. I then immediately went to ER worried it was something worse and they did a CT and it came back normal. The doctor felt it was a tension/stress headache and had me book an appt with Neuro this week. He gave me bac-amec-caff to take, and they decrease the pain a bit but the pressure is still there and I feel weird on the meds.
So now I am worried this will never go away and I think about it all day. I am basically couch ridden and feel awful. I wake up with a headache and think about it all day. I only feel happy when I think of going to bed.
I went through something similar last winter only I was having numbness all over. I saw a neuro, GP, ENT, went to emergency room and it ended up stopping once I was on lexapro for awhile (it hasn't returned).
I have moved back to 20 mg of lexapro for 4 days and hope that once it kicks back in I will start to feel myself.
I am in a bad place and don't know what to do. I feel like I will never be normal and headache free again.
Please help! Advice or experiences welcome.
Thanks so much.
I am a 34 year old mother of a 2.5 year old boy. I have dealt with anxiety and depression since high school but over the last two years the anxiety has gotten progressively worse, especially regarding health issues.
I am currently taking 20 mg of lexapro and because I want to try for another baby started tapering about 1.5 months ago to 15 mg. everything was going fine. I got a very bad sinus infection and was out on antibiotics for ten days and it seemed to go away. Two days after ending the antibiotics I started getting head pain and pressure in my temples, forehead and top back of head. Assuming it was sinus related I went back to doc and got a z-PAC, which did nothing. I then went to a ENT who checked my sinuses and said they looked clear. She worries about temporal arteritis so she had a blood test (sed rate) done. It came back normal. I then immediately went to ER worried it was something worse and they did a CT and it came back normal. The doctor felt it was a tension/stress headache and had me book an appt with Neuro this week. He gave me bac-amec-caff to take, and they decrease the pain a bit but the pressure is still there and I feel weird on the meds.
So now I am worried this will never go away and I think about it all day. I am basically couch ridden and feel awful. I wake up with a headache and think about it all day. I only feel happy when I think of going to bed.
I went through something similar last winter only I was having numbness all over. I saw a neuro, GP, ENT, went to emergency room and it ended up stopping once I was on lexapro for awhile (it hasn't returned).
I have moved back to 20 mg of lexapro for 4 days and hope that once it kicks back in I will start to feel myself.
I am in a bad place and don't know what to do. I feel like I will never be normal and headache free again.
Please help! Advice or experiences welcome.
Thanks so much.