Danath
06-05-10, 16:18
ello all, I'd just like to relate where im up to now, also perhaps my situation will be clearer to me also if i write it down.
Ive been suffering with anxiety for about 3 years now (im 22) and when I was initially diagnosed by one of my old doctors I was given Prozac, which worked initially despite the fact I was also drinking quite a lot at the time. I started to get better and to settle down. about a year later I had a relapse and have been bouncing to and from the doctors ever since. I was given amitriptyline, then i was changed to citalopram which seemed to work for a while, until I stopped working, I was changed from citalopram as I thoguht it was making me irritable, this was probably a bad move, I was put on venlafaxine, months later i was still having trouble so was changed back to fluoxetine.... then again to mirtazipine.... then again to citalopram...... then again to fluoxetine, somewhere in the middle i was given paroxetine but those were given up after 2 days as the side effects were too rough on me. Now hes put me on amitriptyline and gabapentin and I still feel like crap, last night I slept from 9pm til 2pm today with only a short break for food in between at about 10am. A psychiatrist diagnosed me with GAD but said he would'nt prescribe anything as he didnt feel it was appropriate. I'm quite fed up of all this I feel like a bloody human guinea pig, and my doctor won't seem to prescribe anything thats actually approved for GAD, I asked him if he would try pregabalin but he said it was a marketing scam and too expensive so gave me gabapentin instead, which seems to be useless for anxiety.
I am ringing him today at5:40pm to see if he will perhaps try me on something that is ACUTALLY indicated for GAD, like escitalopram, and if he will try me on seroquel or something to help me through the first few weeks of treatment. If he wont I think I might have to change my doctor as I can't put up with this messing around anymore. Some sort of action needs to be taken, and stuck to solidly if its working.
any advice or comments would be thoroughly appreciated.
Dan
Ive been suffering with anxiety for about 3 years now (im 22) and when I was initially diagnosed by one of my old doctors I was given Prozac, which worked initially despite the fact I was also drinking quite a lot at the time. I started to get better and to settle down. about a year later I had a relapse and have been bouncing to and from the doctors ever since. I was given amitriptyline, then i was changed to citalopram which seemed to work for a while, until I stopped working, I was changed from citalopram as I thoguht it was making me irritable, this was probably a bad move, I was put on venlafaxine, months later i was still having trouble so was changed back to fluoxetine.... then again to mirtazipine.... then again to citalopram...... then again to fluoxetine, somewhere in the middle i was given paroxetine but those were given up after 2 days as the side effects were too rough on me. Now hes put me on amitriptyline and gabapentin and I still feel like crap, last night I slept from 9pm til 2pm today with only a short break for food in between at about 10am. A psychiatrist diagnosed me with GAD but said he would'nt prescribe anything as he didnt feel it was appropriate. I'm quite fed up of all this I feel like a bloody human guinea pig, and my doctor won't seem to prescribe anything thats actually approved for GAD, I asked him if he would try pregabalin but he said it was a marketing scam and too expensive so gave me gabapentin instead, which seems to be useless for anxiety.
I am ringing him today at5:40pm to see if he will perhaps try me on something that is ACUTALLY indicated for GAD, like escitalopram, and if he will try me on seroquel or something to help me through the first few weeks of treatment. If he wont I think I might have to change my doctor as I can't put up with this messing around anymore. Some sort of action needs to be taken, and stuck to solidly if its working.
any advice or comments would be thoroughly appreciated.
Dan