siamese
06-06-10, 14:38
Hi All
I am a 62 year old grandmother and have suffered with anxiety/panic attacks/agorophobia for about 50 years. Some of this time its been manageable but now and then, at the moment its a now, it completely overwhelms me and all the ways I found to deal with it in the past become useless. I was on Seroxat for about 15 years but it was becoming less effective and 2 months ago, under medical advice, tapered onto Cipralex 10mg. This was increased after 3 weeks to 15 mg and about 10 days ago to 20mg. The last few days I have felt extremely anxious which may be due to the increased dose. I found this website while looking for advice on coping with anxiety and have found some of your posts to be very encouraging. Its good to know there are others out there who share the same experiences. I wish this amount of knowledge had existed when I was first diagnosed 50 years ago - it would have taken away a lot of the fear.
I am a 62 year old grandmother and have suffered with anxiety/panic attacks/agorophobia for about 50 years. Some of this time its been manageable but now and then, at the moment its a now, it completely overwhelms me and all the ways I found to deal with it in the past become useless. I was on Seroxat for about 15 years but it was becoming less effective and 2 months ago, under medical advice, tapered onto Cipralex 10mg. This was increased after 3 weeks to 15 mg and about 10 days ago to 20mg. The last few days I have felt extremely anxious which may be due to the increased dose. I found this website while looking for advice on coping with anxiety and have found some of your posts to be very encouraging. Its good to know there are others out there who share the same experiences. I wish this amount of knowledge had existed when I was first diagnosed 50 years ago - it would have taken away a lot of the fear.