rossthekid
25-05-14, 17:45
Hello everybody,
My name is ross and am a father of 2 been married for 16 years. I have endured anxiety for 13 years approx. The problem has always been apart from general stress in life, money family issues, job I really am annoyed that I get this disorder. There is a strong family link to historical anxiety disorder from both my mum and dad having it, but not to this extent. Looking back, I tried every medication out there, all sorts of AD and beta blockers all which never really worked. Eventually I ended up on escitalopram 20mg for numerous years which generally kept me on a better level but still not great. I suffered serious sleepiness with it but I could work, just. Over the last year or so I noticed that this just wasn't working as well as previous. I suffered a low mood and very mild anxiety. The gp agreed that the meds just weren't doing it any more and recently moved to Prozac. Currently I am in that journey of trying to get the correct level. I started on 20 mg for 4.5 weeks and they increased it to 40 mg nearly 2 weeks ago. Most of the posts on here describe the effects of feeling worse on medication before it starts to work and I concur with this. Even when I was put onto 40 mg the side effects of increased anxiety later in the day into the night is still evident. I am sure it will work, I just need to give it time, but it is so frustrating. Again looking back I probably didn't have a resource like this that I used for advice and support and if I did I maybe would have stuck some of the early medications out longer, and I maybe wouldn't have suffered for so long.
My name is ross and am a father of 2 been married for 16 years. I have endured anxiety for 13 years approx. The problem has always been apart from general stress in life, money family issues, job I really am annoyed that I get this disorder. There is a strong family link to historical anxiety disorder from both my mum and dad having it, but not to this extent. Looking back, I tried every medication out there, all sorts of AD and beta blockers all which never really worked. Eventually I ended up on escitalopram 20mg for numerous years which generally kept me on a better level but still not great. I suffered serious sleepiness with it but I could work, just. Over the last year or so I noticed that this just wasn't working as well as previous. I suffered a low mood and very mild anxiety. The gp agreed that the meds just weren't doing it any more and recently moved to Prozac. Currently I am in that journey of trying to get the correct level. I started on 20 mg for 4.5 weeks and they increased it to 40 mg nearly 2 weeks ago. Most of the posts on here describe the effects of feeling worse on medication before it starts to work and I concur with this. Even when I was put onto 40 mg the side effects of increased anxiety later in the day into the night is still evident. I am sure it will work, I just need to give it time, but it is so frustrating. Again looking back I probably didn't have a resource like this that I used for advice and support and if I did I maybe would have stuck some of the early medications out longer, and I maybe wouldn't have suffered for so long.