anxiety-king
05-07-2013, 04:00 AM
Hi,
As the title suggests, I've hit a slight issue with my anxiety again.
For those that haven't clicked my profile to read previous posts, suffered really bad anxiety 3 years ago, prescribed 40 mg prozac per day, took 6 months to get over. Anxiety again last summer, took about a month to get over, dosage upped to 60 mg.
Been fine ever since, however 2 days worth of jagerbomb binging left me extremely hungover. In previous cases with how my anxiety started, a repeated disturbing thought left me in a horrible anxiety state - however this time it was a simple song/tune stuck in my head, which then turned to me thinking "please stop with the repeatitive thoughts". At this point I felt the anxiety creep up and ever since I'm constantly thinking about the thought of anxiety, and how long I can go without thinking about it. I then tried to drink through it the next few days to forget about it (which worked slightly) however yesterday I sobered up and I felt the anxiety and slight depression quite badly. Today I feel slightly better, the depressive thoughts are not there, but the obsessive thinking sits in the background still. This may sound like a silly problem, but the constant repetitive thought is annoying, frustrating, off putting, and slightly worrying as I dont want to go back to how Ive been before.
I'm left with a few questions and maybe some of you guys can help out.
1) Give it a week, let me sober up/hydrate and let the pills do its job?
2) Do I need to speak to the doctor again NOW?
3) Im gonna get a blatent NO on this question, but to the "rule breakers" out there: up my dosage over the next week just to give the meds a slight boost.
4) Tell me Im gonna be ok!
5) Maybe more importantly: My drinking. I love getting drunk, I love going crazy, however it dosent take a genius to realise that a huge part of my anxiety stems from drinking and possibly how much! Hangovers have gradually got worse, to the point the next day is a total right off (I can handle) but if the anxiety is gonna flare up randomly the day after, then perhaps I need to stop drinking? Cut down? Cut the Red Bull out?
As the title suggests, I've hit a slight issue with my anxiety again.
For those that haven't clicked my profile to read previous posts, suffered really bad anxiety 3 years ago, prescribed 40 mg prozac per day, took 6 months to get over. Anxiety again last summer, took about a month to get over, dosage upped to 60 mg.
Been fine ever since, however 2 days worth of jagerbomb binging left me extremely hungover. In previous cases with how my anxiety started, a repeated disturbing thought left me in a horrible anxiety state - however this time it was a simple song/tune stuck in my head, which then turned to me thinking "please stop with the repeatitive thoughts". At this point I felt the anxiety creep up and ever since I'm constantly thinking about the thought of anxiety, and how long I can go without thinking about it. I then tried to drink through it the next few days to forget about it (which worked slightly) however yesterday I sobered up and I felt the anxiety and slight depression quite badly. Today I feel slightly better, the depressive thoughts are not there, but the obsessive thinking sits in the background still. This may sound like a silly problem, but the constant repetitive thought is annoying, frustrating, off putting, and slightly worrying as I dont want to go back to how Ive been before.
I'm left with a few questions and maybe some of you guys can help out.
1) Give it a week, let me sober up/hydrate and let the pills do its job?
2) Do I need to speak to the doctor again NOW?
3) Im gonna get a blatent NO on this question, but to the "rule breakers" out there: up my dosage over the next week just to give the meds a slight boost.
4) Tell me Im gonna be ok!
5) Maybe more importantly: My drinking. I love getting drunk, I love going crazy, however it dosent take a genius to realise that a huge part of my anxiety stems from drinking and possibly how much! Hangovers have gradually got worse, to the point the next day is a total right off (I can handle) but if the anxiety is gonna flare up randomly the day after, then perhaps I need to stop drinking? Cut down? Cut the Red Bull out?