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Posted by rjlockhart98 on June 18, 2005, at 22:34:51
Hello people,
I have got a job at Blockbuster, i work 4 days a week, full time. I knew i would do something, now my next mission:
Get out of this house, get to collage
Im very sorry i didnt post back to my last post, i was really in a crisis about what was going to happen.
I currently am still on these meds:
Lorazepam 6 mg (2 mg X 3) daily - i sometimes i have to take 4mg during a panic that IS deadly (2 MG X 2)
Restoril 30mg - nightly. this does help good at sometimes shutting off, but i have trouble waking up at 4 AM or 3:30 and not being able to get to sleep. It Lasts for about 3 hours approx.
Lorazepam - i have said many times in other posts is not really 'effective' for panic, its better for plain anxiety, not exactly sleep either. Its hard to explain, when i took clonazepam 1mg it sort of had a 'relief' feeling during a panic attack, i took 2mg when it didnt ease it off . Lorazepam doesnt not take away fear or the "numb" feeling, it slowly eases anxiety, but there's still other symptoms, like feeling of 'going insane'.
I want to talk to my doctor if neuroleptic meds, becuase i dont know, its really miserable if you know or feel as if your 'deteriating' and fear to come of insanity.
I am going to ask to switch to Klonopin again, i dont know what dose i will be on. Klonopin did help but not to a degree, i was 3mg daily. I dont what else really.
I have had nightmares that i am still in it, i wake up with IMMENSE PANIC that, ill take Ativan 4mg if it dosnt stop. My doctor told me that this is symtoms of night terror, which is a mostly in children.
THis post is too long, i need to let up. But please just some respose to this........ well thanks.
Matt
Posted by sleepygirl on June 18, 2005, at 22:43:49
In reply to hello, im back...... if thats ok, posted by rjlockhart98 on June 18, 2005, at 22:34:51
Maybe the neuroleptic idea is a good one. It sounds rough to be up there on the benzo dosages and still feel so awful. I take klonopin, couldn't take higher dosages, now I've started Seroquel, so far, not bad.
Posted by rjlockhart98 on June 18, 2005, at 23:04:21
In reply to Re: hello, im back...... if thats ok, posted by sleepygirl on June 18, 2005, at 22:43:49
Hello
THnaks for posting.
My body is i dont know is resistant to sedatives, 2mg of Ativan dosnt do much, i feel a slight "slit" that maybe tones down nerve, but not mind.
Clonazepam is mainly better for panic disorder. I agree, i asked my pdoc about Ativan, and we started slowly 1mg X 3 daily then 2mg X 3 daily. But still, there's not very much change. Ativan is a very good anxiety med, maybe for a long airplane travel to keep "nerve" calm.
thanks for posting, i havent really seen you much on my posts. THnaks.
Matt
Posted by sleepygirl on June 18, 2005, at 23:11:10
In reply to Re: hello, im back...... if thats ok, posted by rjlockhart98 on June 18, 2005, at 23:04:21
anytime, glad to read about how you're doing. Can I ask if you take anything with the the ativan and klonopin?
Posted by rjlockhart98 on June 18, 2005, at 23:20:46
In reply to Re: hello, im back...... if thats ok, posted by sleepygirl on June 18, 2005, at 23:11:10
I was on adderall 40mg daily, which over time really started to increase anxiety bad. When it would wear off, i would really start feeling an 'unreal' feeling, that's what lead to thinking im going insane.
and also the nights of insomnia ( caused from taking adderall at 60mg AFTER 3 PM) before i took Restoril, i would lightly go to sleep but get 'stuck' in my thoughts, they would wrap around eachother nad made no sense, felt like complete chaotic insanity. I would wake up and go balistic.
I take adderall no longer. Sense im over the summer i dont want to take it. Ive had it with that toxic substance.
I would take Ativan couple hours after adderall, it would help but it didnt help much with feeling 'unreal'.
thats it.
Thanks for posting......... : )
Matt
Posted by sleepygirl on June 18, 2005, at 23:24:56
In reply to Re: hello, im back...... if thats ok, posted by rjlockhart98 on June 18, 2005, at 23:20:46
hang in there lockhart, there's got to be a better way :-)
-sleepy
Posted by ed_uk on June 19, 2005, at 9:41:36
In reply to hello, im back...... if thats ok, posted by rjlockhart98 on June 18, 2005, at 22:34:51
>hello, im back...... if thats ok
Of course it's ok Matt :-)
~Ed
Posted by Phillipa on June 19, 2005, at 18:23:50
In reply to Re: hello, im back...... if thats ok » rjlockhart98, posted by ed_uk on June 19, 2005, at 9:41:36
Matt, sounds like the adderal was creating the anxiety. And it's good to see you back. Fondly, Phillipa
Posted by portage on June 19, 2005, at 21:46:47
In reply to hello, im back...... if thats ok, posted by rjlockhart98 on June 18, 2005, at 22:34:51
Hi.
You sound a lot like me.
I'm becoming increasingly paranoid about going insane. I have panic attacks with severe sensory distortions and dissociation. Xanax doesnt work quickly enough to stop them. And even when I'm not having an attack, there are fleeting moments where reality is something I just can't "understand". i become dumbfounded, almost in a stupor. i dont know what that is.
I'm afraid of going crazy- and I think it's not COMPLETELY irrational, because schizophrenia and manic depression runs in my family, and because I really AM insane durring the panic attacks. But the thoughts are becoming obsessions, and only lately have they triggered actual panic attacks- the attacks used to be out of the blue.I don't think I've read any of your other posts...what are your panic attacks like?
Posted by rjlockhart98 on June 19, 2005, at 22:35:46
In reply to Re: hello, im back...... if thats ok » rjlockhart98, posted by portage on June 19, 2005, at 21:46:47
Hello portage,
I believe you told me in your other post, that you saw 'frames'. I have never experienced this dissociation before.
Usally how my panic starts, is time sort or 'slows down' i feel im sitting in slow motion, not exactly but everything around me. I will start to feel 'errie' and 'fear' will just come out of no where, and i get that feeling there is something 'wrong'. THis usually sets off adreanaline shoots, i get up and feel im ready for anything.
I feel that i will lose sense of 'intake' such as information, everything will freeze, and i will go insane. THat is a great fear i have.
im sorry i havent awnsered your other posts, you seem to have more extreme measeures. When its starts, does it feel like a egg cracking somewhere over your head, then the yolk flows down 'numbness'.
Sorry i dont have much time, but take care.
Matt
Posted by portage on June 20, 2005, at 23:55:25
In reply to Re: hello, im back...... if thats ok, posted by rjlockhart98 on June 19, 2005, at 22:35:46
> Hello portage,
>
> I believe you told me in your other post, that you saw 'frames'. I have never experienced this dissociation before.
>
> Usally how my panic starts, is time sort or 'slows down' i feel im sitting in slow motion, not exactly but everything around me. I will start to feel 'errie' and 'fear' will just come out of no where, and i get that feeling there is something 'wrong'. THis usually sets off adreanaline shoots, i get up and feel im ready for anything.
>
> I feel that i will lose sense of 'intake' such as information, everything will freeze, and i will go insane. THat is a great fear i have.
>
> im sorry i havent awnsered your other posts, you seem to have more extreme measeures. When its starts, does it feel like a egg cracking somewhere over your head, then the yolk flows down 'numbness'.
>
> Sorry i dont have much time, but take care.
>
> Matt
matt. hi
i havent heard a description so uncannily simmilar to mine. yes, sort of like a yolk except that it starts in my fingers and gradually moves up and down my body.
but you say you feel like you can take on anything when the adrenaline flows, while i feel the need to curl up and protect myself. my whole body twitches, especially my legs.
yeah, durring the worst ones i see in frames, thats indescribable. but i hope i dont have you worrying that that will happen to you..
i feel like i'm going to get left behind, or "stuck" like you said.
i dont think that would be described as dissociation...but a slowness of sensory registration.but REMEMBER i never DO get stuck, neither do you. and it does pass. then theres such releif when its over.
and there are always more drugs to trylinkadge offers interesting advice...have you ever tried an anticonvulsant or had an eeg?
for me, i wonder if i sometimes have a panic response to a seizure. it seems to make sense.
do you ever take recreational drugs?i dont know what else to say. i need to get dormant.
ciao
portage
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