CE3K
28-10-10, 19:27
Ji all,
Firstly, I'm not sure whether to post this here or in the depresion forum (or even social phoboa forum). Secondly, I'll try to be as brief as I can, but this may go on a bit :unsure: . . .
Back in April I had a (query) TIA
I was put on perindropril for high blood pressure, a statin to lower cholesterol and an aspirin a day.
I had a week off work.
A couple of months later, I had two weeks off work with hypertension and 'acute stress reaction' and had developed 'anticipatory anxiety with things like attending meetings at work
After another five or six weeks at work, I was signed off again with the same thing.
I was alo prescribed Serc-16 and Sturgeron by an ENT specialist at a different hospital because some of the main physical symptoms included 'giddiness' and tinnitus.
During the last three months I've had 24 hour heart and blood pressure monitors, 72 hour urine test for hormonal abnormality and an MRI of brain and inner ear.
Two weeks ago, I was told that blood pressure is still to high and my perindropril dose was raised from 2mg to 4mg and I was prescribed propanolol as a beta-blocker to help with the blood pressure and also was told it would help with the physical symptoms assocated with anxiety.
So, as someone who is VERY anti-meds, I'm now downing quite a few sweeties a day!
OK, now to the main problem . . . . .
Last week, I was signed off work again for two weeks. I had still been finding it difficult to attend meetings and was also becoming 'unwell' at the thought of anything which involved having to 'go somewhere'
My GP says he thinks I have both anxiety and depression.
What he doesn't know yet is that since I started taking the propanolol, I have actually started to feel depressed emotionally . . . but also have anxiety-type mental symptoms (but not panic attacks).
The worst feeling I guess is the underlying 'sense of dread' and the development of unwanted, iterative thoughts, swearing quite often, occassional fear that things are just too much.
The tempation has been to rest and do nothing (and I have started practicing relaxation), but I find that if I can do something physical, it does seem to help.
The last two days now, I've strarted getting the sick feeeling all the time and wanting to just lie in bed when I wake up (with thoughts going around and around, almost like a conversation)
I'm trying to practice CBT/postive thinking etc as well, and just about hanging in there at the moment.
I still keep having feelings, a number of times during the day though, that the illness is gradually winning and will get worse than it is now . . . which would be disasterous for me and those around me.
I have sworn NEVER EVER to go on to anti-depressants, after having had a dreadful set of experiences with anafranil, prozac, seroxat at various tiems in the 80's and once in the 90's. Me and anti-Ds just do not mix and I've told my GP this (which he accepts to some extent, but reckons there are 'better ones' now which might be worth trying). I'm still adamant that I'll not go down that path again, ever.
I just want to know whether anyone would agree that I likely have both anxiety and depression, or just GAD? and also whether anyone here can identify with wanting to win the battle without anti-Ds.
If so, what techniques have you found best that work(ed) for you?
Sorry I couldn't condense this any further :shrug:
Thanks
Roger
Firstly, I'm not sure whether to post this here or in the depresion forum (or even social phoboa forum). Secondly, I'll try to be as brief as I can, but this may go on a bit :unsure: . . .
Back in April I had a (query) TIA
I was put on perindropril for high blood pressure, a statin to lower cholesterol and an aspirin a day.
I had a week off work.
A couple of months later, I had two weeks off work with hypertension and 'acute stress reaction' and had developed 'anticipatory anxiety with things like attending meetings at work
After another five or six weeks at work, I was signed off again with the same thing.
I was alo prescribed Serc-16 and Sturgeron by an ENT specialist at a different hospital because some of the main physical symptoms included 'giddiness' and tinnitus.
During the last three months I've had 24 hour heart and blood pressure monitors, 72 hour urine test for hormonal abnormality and an MRI of brain and inner ear.
Two weeks ago, I was told that blood pressure is still to high and my perindropril dose was raised from 2mg to 4mg and I was prescribed propanolol as a beta-blocker to help with the blood pressure and also was told it would help with the physical symptoms assocated with anxiety.
So, as someone who is VERY anti-meds, I'm now downing quite a few sweeties a day!
OK, now to the main problem . . . . .
Last week, I was signed off work again for two weeks. I had still been finding it difficult to attend meetings and was also becoming 'unwell' at the thought of anything which involved having to 'go somewhere'
My GP says he thinks I have both anxiety and depression.
What he doesn't know yet is that since I started taking the propanolol, I have actually started to feel depressed emotionally . . . but also have anxiety-type mental symptoms (but not panic attacks).
The worst feeling I guess is the underlying 'sense of dread' and the development of unwanted, iterative thoughts, swearing quite often, occassional fear that things are just too much.
The tempation has been to rest and do nothing (and I have started practicing relaxation), but I find that if I can do something physical, it does seem to help.
The last two days now, I've strarted getting the sick feeeling all the time and wanting to just lie in bed when I wake up (with thoughts going around and around, almost like a conversation)
I'm trying to practice CBT/postive thinking etc as well, and just about hanging in there at the moment.
I still keep having feelings, a number of times during the day though, that the illness is gradually winning and will get worse than it is now . . . which would be disasterous for me and those around me.
I have sworn NEVER EVER to go on to anti-depressants, after having had a dreadful set of experiences with anafranil, prozac, seroxat at various tiems in the 80's and once in the 90's. Me and anti-Ds just do not mix and I've told my GP this (which he accepts to some extent, but reckons there are 'better ones' now which might be worth trying). I'm still adamant that I'll not go down that path again, ever.
I just want to know whether anyone would agree that I likely have both anxiety and depression, or just GAD? and also whether anyone here can identify with wanting to win the battle without anti-Ds.
If so, what techniques have you found best that work(ed) for you?
Sorry I couldn't condense this any further :shrug:
Thanks
Roger