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How many of you suffer from anxiety? And...

K'd-OUT-in-AZ

K'd-OUT-in-AZ

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I read a lot of people on here say they suffer from anxiety and phobias so thought I'd find out which of you are. I have anxiety problems myself and have for awhile, used to take benzodiazepines for a little over 10 years and killed my memory box. So I have the following questions for you,

1. What type of anxiety or phobia do you suffer from? I have generalized anxiety with a little social anxiety.

2. Did you start to realize your anxiety before or after you started taking drugs including prescriptions? For me it was before but it got worse after I started taking prescription drugs.

3. Are you prescribed medications as treatment and what? Yes I take medication, for awhile it was Klonopin but now I take Lyrica

So what do you think, want to answer?
 
i had social anxiety real bad between 17 and until i was almost 20. i then realized i was smarter and wiser than a lot of people (true? maybe not, but confidence is key!).. now its completely disappeared..... as far as generalized anxiety goes, i like drugs. all drugs, any kind of drug. i find that im only anxious when im sober, period. no matter if im sober for 2 months straight, ill have a minor anxiety problem. all my medications are illicit and self prescribed. ....

i ddint realized i had anxiety until i was into smoking pot regularly, im pretty sure that caused it too.
 
I have been increasingly having trouble with anxiety over the past four years. For whatever reason, it's decided to wait until this late in my life to creep in and fuck me all up.8) I have never EVER been a nervous person until all this started.

I have depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and I also have panic/anxiety attacks. The first time I had one, I thought I was going crazy. Then I began having several a day, which almost caused me to lose my job because of my reactions to it. Again, I didn't know what it was and I was terrified. When my doc diagnosed me it was such a HUGE relief!! He prescribed 75 mg of Effexor XR once per day.

I'm very sensitive to corticosteroids, so when I had to take massive doses of Decadron to stop a bad reaction to chemotherapy drugs it caused me to WIG the hell out! I thought I was going to crawl out of my skin...I would have if I could have. One of my chemo nurses saw what was going on with me, and got my oncologist to prescribe Ativan to help with the agitation and anxiety.
He eventually switched me to Xanax, why I dunno. The Ativan worked better.

Now I'm taking 120 mg of fexofenadine and 50 mg of Vistaril as needed for anxiety-triggered hives. Also 10 mg Ambien for insomnia.

Yayyyy for mid-life shenanigans! :p
 
1. I have generalized anxiety with ocd. The two are cyclic and build upon each other.

2. I think I've always had anxiety and have talked to counselors and such right from the point of elementary school. My grades were good though and so they never placed a diagnosis on it. No one acknowledged my problems as real so I never was sure they were either. About two years ago I took action and found a good psyc and got my issues properly diagnosed and started medicinal treatment. Overall I would say it's helped a lot.

3. I've been on a lot of different meds and had to change them around a lot to find what worked best for me. And oddly, it wasn't benzos. They didn't do a lot for me anxiety wise or otherwise. At current I'm on Luvox for my ocd and Hydroxyzine for my anxiety. The combination is very effective and the best I've been on.

Interested to hear from others!
 
1. I have PTSD and GAD, sometimes with social anxiety (it gets better for a while, then worse, then better etc). Also have panic attacks occasionally. They got a to a point where they were daily before I went on meds. I was on clonazepam for a long time, but no longer take any benzos pretty much ever.
2. I realized it shortly before I got help, but it got worse very rapidly, leading me to see a psychiatrist. I had one of my worst panic attacks ever a couple days before I went to the doctor for the first time, luckily I was with a friend who also has panic attacks and he knew what was happening. I thought I was going crazy.
3. Right now I'm on cymbalta, remeron, gabapentin, seroquel and lamictal for the anxiety disorders and severe depression. I've been on lots of meds, this huge combo does seem to work pretty well for my anxiety while also not making me a zombie, though it barely touches the depression. And of course most PTSD symptoms can't be medicated away, but therapy helps a lot with that stuff. I still have panic attacks and low level anxiety almost all the time, but it's much better.
 
1. Have anxiety issues, not diagnosed with anything so I can't say with certainty what, but I'll provisionally direct you to Avoidant Personality Disorder since it seems to cover the symptoms that I am aware of (again, using this as a point of reference, not claiming I have it since I'm not qualified to make that assessment). Looking at my life it'd be difficult to explain long standing patterns of behavior and thoughts I exhibit without calling me psychiatricly troubled.

2. Issues predate drug use by at least 6 years (that's when my issues started severely impacting my life and emotional wellness)

3. No medication, never sought treatment. I mean, if I've never been close to / open with the people I care about and have known for most my life, or anyone at all for that matter, why the hell would I do it with someone who's just going to be judging me, and putting me in a vulnerable position when they themselves don't have to do so?. The entire notion is ridiculous.
 
first time i experienced anxiety was when i discovered adderall. One day i took 60mg xr and smoked a fat blunt with some friends and all of a sudden i was just straight freakin out.

The thing is back then (junior year of highschool) i did not even know what anxiety was so you can imagine how scared i was thinking i was bout to die then ever since that day my anxiety has been lurking its weirdd how that one panic attack on that one day has changed me but ive learned some techniques to calm myself down.

Now that i understand anxiety i know i am not going to die and it is all in my head and if i keep that mindset im usually cool but sometimes it just creeps up
 
Passive agressive -manic depressive--Type A personality
ADD
OCD
Bipolar
Hyperactive thiriod
chronic anxiety attacks Chronic Insomniac
many phobias
didnt know about my anxiety growing up i just thought it was normal to be so hyper and to have attacks,,,went on meds around ten years old
but as an older person i recocnized my attacks where far from normal but only sought help by buying Drugs off the street weed hash oil valiums etc..
at about 30 years old i finaly was diognosed and started treetment regimon ------- Am currently on
187.5 mg venlafaxine xr--effexor----------------------------------basically for depression
arthrotec 75-0.2 mg-antyinflamitory 1 tab as needed-------------to help with inflamation pain
T3s 8 per day or as needed-----------------------------------------to help with chronic pain
ibuprofen as needed-------------------------------------------------basically to help pain
rabeprazole sodium 20 mg 1 tab twice daily------------------------to stop acid production in stomache
teva-metoprolol film CTD 50 mg 1 tab twice daily------------------heart medication
methotrimeprazine-nozinan 10 mg 3 times daily-------------------to treet mild pain and help calming
temazepam 30 mg 2 at bedtime------------------------------------strickly for sleep dissorder
clonazepam 2 mg 1 tab 3 times daily and 1 as needed per day=4----anxiety attacks
seroquel 200 mg 2 at bedtime or as many as needed--------------mainly for sleep dissorder
mutivitamines -------------------------------------------------------to help with my enemia and other
To many phobias and pain dissorders to list.
This is about anxiety basically anyway,,,but i thought ya all may as well know it all.....
And also yes once on meds on a regular basis the attacks came more often and sever..
Peace.....
 
1. My most severe anxiety disorder is specific phobia, i.e. emetophobia (fear of vomit). I also deal with social anxiety on a daily basis, which is more debilitating just because of its chronic nature. Emetophobia only kicks in when someone is sick. Also suffer from OCD tendencies (hand-washing, intrusive thoughts) that wax and wane depending on my overall anxiety level.

2. For the longest time, I just assumed everyone felt anxious like me (minus the phobia). Guess I realized I had anxiety when I was about 18 or so, around the time I discovered my Asperger's syndrome. Drug use only made it more obvious by allowing me to see what "normal" feels like.

3. I'm not currently prescribed anything, but take Prozac 20 mg. Have tried practically every SSRI, some tricyclics, an anti-psychotic and an atypical AD to no avail. I'm definitely worse off without the Prozac, but after a decade I can't tell whether it's some form of withdrawal or an actual underlying disorder causing the shitty feelings. (I self-medicate with low-dose poppy tea 1x per day, which has been leaps and bounds more effective than scrips.)
 
1. What type of anxiety or phobia do you suffer from? I have some generalized anxiety and some social anxiety. Also, some things really freak me out like small spaces, dark spaces, the ocean, driving at night, sometimes driving during the day, etc.

2. Did you start to realize your anxiety before or after you started taking drugs including prescriptions? I had really bad anxiety before I ever touched any sort of drug (aside from allergy meds). I remember having anxiety at 6! and it'd keep me up all night. My mind never stops. Well, I'm bipolar and meds HAVE helped, the racing crazy thoughts haven't been as bad since I've gotten on them. I smoke a lot of weed and once in a great while I do get anxiety when high, but that just tells me that I need to back up and calm down because really most likely I'm fine. Caffeine, meth and coke give me anxiety pretty bad so I only use those when I've forgotten why I quit.

3. Are you prescribed medications as treatment and what? Yes, I have a low dosage of xanax "when needed" which is like once or twice a week. Well, I've been going to therapy to work on the anxiety so I really try not to take the xanax unless I'm REALLY freaking out. Gotta practice those coping skills! Otherwise why am I paying for therapy, right? :) I'm pretty sure I give away more xanax than I take.
I also take risperdal and wellbutrin for bipolar & SAD (damn those dark winters!). Those didn't seem to help with my anxiety at all, I was having it a LOT pre xanax & therapy. I've only been using xanax since this summer.
 
I have post traumatic stress disorder and a severe gad. It started when I was in highschool and the very end of middle school. That is for the gad. The ptsd started right after someone was stabbed in my presence which fucked me up in the head. I take klonopin and restoril atm. I take spare pills if needed. I think every post you make is awesome kman
 
Social anxiety and general ANXIETY. Severe Panic attacks .
Discovered opiates thought i had nailed my anxiety 12 years down the line worse than it was b4 opiates with a fairly large benzo habit and ridiculous tolerance!
 
Ill just say yep!!! in the middle of the night or whenever,i ussualy wake up many times a night most times theres np but sometimes i wake to full blown attacks,mostly the mornings for me as ive told ya before,
I also have a bit of a heart problem -- high blood pressure and an extremely high heart rate which is why im on the new heart meds ,so its not hard for me to have an attack at anytime realy.
my best puls rate is around 90 while on meds,i need to get in to see him again and go back on another med to help out that we dropped just to see if anything would happen to my heartrate..
When i miss a dose of my heart meds im ussually around 130 BPM,which sux in itself because even when yer not haven an attack ya still feel the pressure and pain..
But im rambling again...
The answer------------YES lol..........and it sux..........
 
K'd-OUT-in-AZ said:
Does anybody else wake in the middle of the night with panic attacks?
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Yes and oddly most often when I was on benzos for anxiety treatment. I would wake up worried over something 'dumb' and it would develop into a panic. I'd end up having to take another dose of medicine to get back to sleep.

Even though I never used benzos in an abusive sense, I still feel much better now that I'm almost off of them completely.

More benign medicine for anxiety is great in my book.

K'd - If you'd like to discuss in more detail just shoot me a pm, I don't want to go into much more detail than that publicly though.
 
I have anxiety and panic attacks. It fucking sucks i was fine before until i smoke weed a day after i rolled and it just hit me and i haven't been the same since :(
 
Had full on panic disorder many years ago. It was eventually brought under control with Xanax, which gave me some breathing space to learn the stress/anxiety management techniques which have served me well ever since.
 
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