cookie26
12-26-2012, 02:25 PM
Hi all,
So it's the day after Christmas ... I just did three and a half hours of travel back from my parents to my apartment early this morning. It was a fine drive, and I had a mostly relaxing afternoon... I just had the strangest experience, though. I've been pretty good with panic attacks lately, no major panic attacks for about 2 full weeks! I've had some anxiety but I think 50 mg of zoloft is helpping ( I just upped it to 50mg two weeks ago). This afternoon, I was so exhausted that I took a nap from around 2:30pm - 4pm. I woke up at 4pm feeling incredibly confused, believing that I had slept the whole night through and then the morning and into the afternoon...anyways, this confusion about how I could have slept over 12 hours kept going through my mind, and caused me to have some panic symptoms, but not all of them. I was pacing, felt nauseuous, felt like I was going crazy and losing control, heart racing...but I wasn't uncontrollably trembling all over my body, like I usually do. Anyways, I figured out I only slept 1 1/2 hour nap, but I'm still shaken up about my confusion, like a brain fogginess or confusion. Is 50mg of Zoloft a good therapeutic amount? I've been on Zoloft for a full month now, 2 weeks at 25mg and 2 weeks at 50mg. I've been taking .25mg of xanax too, when I'm feeling extra anxious...I just took it now, and it calmed me down a bit...
Anxiety and panic are just really awful!! What kind of emotional work can you do while on medication to help rid of anxiety/panic attacks?
So it's the day after Christmas ... I just did three and a half hours of travel back from my parents to my apartment early this morning. It was a fine drive, and I had a mostly relaxing afternoon... I just had the strangest experience, though. I've been pretty good with panic attacks lately, no major panic attacks for about 2 full weeks! I've had some anxiety but I think 50 mg of zoloft is helpping ( I just upped it to 50mg two weeks ago). This afternoon, I was so exhausted that I took a nap from around 2:30pm - 4pm. I woke up at 4pm feeling incredibly confused, believing that I had slept the whole night through and then the morning and into the afternoon...anyways, this confusion about how I could have slept over 12 hours kept going through my mind, and caused me to have some panic symptoms, but not all of them. I was pacing, felt nauseuous, felt like I was going crazy and losing control, heart racing...but I wasn't uncontrollably trembling all over my body, like I usually do. Anyways, I figured out I only slept 1 1/2 hour nap, but I'm still shaken up about my confusion, like a brain fogginess or confusion. Is 50mg of Zoloft a good therapeutic amount? I've been on Zoloft for a full month now, 2 weeks at 25mg and 2 weeks at 50mg. I've been taking .25mg of xanax too, when I'm feeling extra anxious...I just took it now, and it calmed me down a bit...
Anxiety and panic are just really awful!! What kind of emotional work can you do while on medication to help rid of anxiety/panic attacks?