Cheeseandbeans
29-01-17, 16:45
Hi all. Not been around on here for quite a while.
Past 18 months have been difficult, bringing me to where I am now, on the brink of starting Sertraline.
At the back end of 2014 I started with panic attacks, completely out of the blue, never experienced them before. Through CBT and the use of Citalopram for the anxiety it caused I felt quite normal again by Feb 2015. I was always spaced out/not with it taking Citalopram and as I was feeling better myself and the GP decided I should taper off them. Unfortunately though and this is a big thing for me at the moment, the spaced out feeling has NEVER gone away. Admittedly some days are worse than other but it is always there. Around March/April 2015 I started getting headaches. Couldn't seem to mange them and painkillers didn't touch them. I was prescribed Amitriptyline but they also didn't help.
Since then I have had appointments with Neurologists, MRI's, CT Scans, EEG, blood tests, all points to the fact I am physically fit.
The symptoms I experience every day are being spaced out/not with (it does sound like DP/DR although nobody has ever said that to me) anxiety because of it, headaches, neck pain, palpitations and more recently pins and needles in my right arm and right leg.
I think I have possibly been too stubborn in the fact anxiety/depression can cause the physical symptoms I am experiencing.
I am really tired of all this now. It's affecting my life, I don't go out or do anywhere near as much as I used to. My wife and kids are affected badly by it and I've been off sick for 3 months. I hope every day I wake up back to normal. My last visit to the GP led to him prescribing 50mg Sertraline on the advice of a counsellor I am seeing.
I am so very nervous about taking these tablets. I've worked myself up for 2 weeks about it but I know this is my last chance to get myself functioning again.
Questions I have are, can anxiety really cause all these physical symptoms I am experiencing? Test results would back up that theory.
Do Anti Depressant help with DP/DR? This is the worst symptom I have and so hard to explain to people!
I just hope I'm strong enough to stick with these tablets.
Wish me luck! :hugs:
Past 18 months have been difficult, bringing me to where I am now, on the brink of starting Sertraline.
At the back end of 2014 I started with panic attacks, completely out of the blue, never experienced them before. Through CBT and the use of Citalopram for the anxiety it caused I felt quite normal again by Feb 2015. I was always spaced out/not with it taking Citalopram and as I was feeling better myself and the GP decided I should taper off them. Unfortunately though and this is a big thing for me at the moment, the spaced out feeling has NEVER gone away. Admittedly some days are worse than other but it is always there. Around March/April 2015 I started getting headaches. Couldn't seem to mange them and painkillers didn't touch them. I was prescribed Amitriptyline but they also didn't help.
Since then I have had appointments with Neurologists, MRI's, CT Scans, EEG, blood tests, all points to the fact I am physically fit.
The symptoms I experience every day are being spaced out/not with (it does sound like DP/DR although nobody has ever said that to me) anxiety because of it, headaches, neck pain, palpitations and more recently pins and needles in my right arm and right leg.
I think I have possibly been too stubborn in the fact anxiety/depression can cause the physical symptoms I am experiencing.
I am really tired of all this now. It's affecting my life, I don't go out or do anywhere near as much as I used to. My wife and kids are affected badly by it and I've been off sick for 3 months. I hope every day I wake up back to normal. My last visit to the GP led to him prescribing 50mg Sertraline on the advice of a counsellor I am seeing.
I am so very nervous about taking these tablets. I've worked myself up for 2 weeks about it but I know this is my last chance to get myself functioning again.
Questions I have are, can anxiety really cause all these physical symptoms I am experiencing? Test results would back up that theory.
Do Anti Depressant help with DP/DR? This is the worst symptom I have and so hard to explain to people!
I just hope I'm strong enough to stick with these tablets.
Wish me luck! :hugs: