Inanna
12-18-2007, 11:37 AM
Hi everyone, this is my first post.
I've suffered with chronic anxiety my entire life, and have lived with agoraphobia for about five years now. I have lost most of my teen years to the anxiety, and the depression, and am suspected bipolar, or psychotic depressive. Most definitely chronic depressive, although I really feel like so much of it is stress and hating my life. But then by the same token, I sometimes remember how I used to feel about my day and I see that the way I feel now is 1000% worse.
I refused meds for a very long time but was ultimately forced by my father and GP to take Lexapro, about 7 weeks ago. I'm on 10mgs.
I am really happy that I took them, they have really taken off the edge and I find myself *wanting* to be free of the anxiety, truly wanting, for the first time in years. I am much less vindictive and cruel, and so much more stable. The only downside I guess is that I'm addicted to diet coke as in the early days I needed a kick to stay awake, and I'm unable to orgasm. This is OK with me.
I will talk to my GP about it, I'll have to ring him or get someone else to do it for me - baby steps - but do you think that upping the dose increases the benefits? If I upped it by 5 or 10mg, do you think I'd find myself having even less anxiety?
Inanna :)
I've suffered with chronic anxiety my entire life, and have lived with agoraphobia for about five years now. I have lost most of my teen years to the anxiety, and the depression, and am suspected bipolar, or psychotic depressive. Most definitely chronic depressive, although I really feel like so much of it is stress and hating my life. But then by the same token, I sometimes remember how I used to feel about my day and I see that the way I feel now is 1000% worse.
I refused meds for a very long time but was ultimately forced by my father and GP to take Lexapro, about 7 weeks ago. I'm on 10mgs.
I am really happy that I took them, they have really taken off the edge and I find myself *wanting* to be free of the anxiety, truly wanting, for the first time in years. I am much less vindictive and cruel, and so much more stable. The only downside I guess is that I'm addicted to diet coke as in the early days I needed a kick to stay awake, and I'm unable to orgasm. This is OK with me.
I will talk to my GP about it, I'll have to ring him or get someone else to do it for me - baby steps - but do you think that upping the dose increases the benefits? If I upped it by 5 or 10mg, do you think I'd find myself having even less anxiety?
Inanna :)