Posted by johnj on January 6, 2008, at 11:39:43
In reply to Re: When meds don't work » johnj, posted by tecknohed on January 6, 2008, at 10:47:32
My dx is chronic anxiety/ocd. I have a hard time shutting off my brain. Frontal lobe seems so active and then I can't sleep. Dr. thinks maybe I have some comorbid disorder as my brain seems to go and go. I realize later that what I worried about was unfounded but when I can't sleep it seems so real. For example, last night I worried about my wife, job, and where I would end up. Hence caused more panic.
I was on pamelor, lithium and tranzene for 10 years and then work stress seemed to make it all stop working. I'm not really on anything right now as I tested depakote for two nights. I then tried remeron and was on it for 3 years but I finally had enough with the sponge brain and terrible anger. Briefly tried paxil, luvox and some other benzos but had very bad reactions to ssri's (anxiety) and the benzo's would wear off and things would sky rocket. Seroquel caused akathisa.
Last week I started worrying very bad and anger wouldn't go away. Anger doesn't last days for me so it was scary. Sleep issues got worse too. Last night 3 hours max. Night before 8 hours. It seems like I have a couple bad nights and seem to crash, and then it starts over again.
I don't know if what is wrong or if it is all something in my life? I don't think so but don't know. I don't have major stressors but maybe that is a problem. I just want to go to work and enjoy the simple stuff again. I'm very afraid right now. I worry about life a lot. Depakote was very blunting and got me down. Thanks for responding.
johnj
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