ButterflyGirl82
04-20-2008, 02:11 PM
I've always had some sort of anxiety, but never enough to make me want to go get help for it.
My anxiety gives me:
muscle tension
fast heart rate
tension/tightness in neck, shoulders back
spasms
tired
headaches
makes it hard to sit in the classroom
My neurologist said because of my anxiety and inability to relax for the last 6 months my physiology in the nerves in my head are messed up. He says I don't have any disease and he'd trade spots with me, but that the nerve pains I have is a result of tightness of the head due to anxiety and depression. He did say I could get better.
I saw the psychatrist for the first time a week ago. I had been on prozac 20 mg by my reg doctor for almost two months and trazodone 50 mg for sleep and depression for 3 months. My psychatrist wants to change me to lexapro and wanted me to stop trazodone. So I've been doing prozac every other day and stopped trazodone for four days and got off and on sleep to the point of fatigue this weekend. My neuro said to go back on trazodone or try some ambien cr for a bit. I see my psychatrist in a week.
My psychologist I've only been seeing for a month but he hasn't really taught me relaxation techniques...Should I get a new one that understands this maybe , CBT??
I'm also on Atenolol 25 mg to keep the heart rate under control. I take .25 klonopin at least twice a day and a muscle relaxer at least once.
All I do is sit or lay in bed and its making my body especially my legs weak and ache...Although I think trazodone makes my body ache.
I am doing physical therapy for my tension in my shoulders for two weeks now...Its sorta helping.
Most importantly my family is fustrated upset with me. They can't take me being like this anymore. My mom right now is severly depressed and has MS. My dad is under high stress. And I don't know if I can go to school this week, because I feel exhausted.
My neuro says I need to move, do chores , exercise, get back to my life...But it is so hard to...
Anyone else on lexapro?
Thanks for the support!
My anxiety gives me:
muscle tension
fast heart rate
tension/tightness in neck, shoulders back
spasms
tired
headaches
makes it hard to sit in the classroom
My neurologist said because of my anxiety and inability to relax for the last 6 months my physiology in the nerves in my head are messed up. He says I don't have any disease and he'd trade spots with me, but that the nerve pains I have is a result of tightness of the head due to anxiety and depression. He did say I could get better.
I saw the psychatrist for the first time a week ago. I had been on prozac 20 mg by my reg doctor for almost two months and trazodone 50 mg for sleep and depression for 3 months. My psychatrist wants to change me to lexapro and wanted me to stop trazodone. So I've been doing prozac every other day and stopped trazodone for four days and got off and on sleep to the point of fatigue this weekend. My neuro said to go back on trazodone or try some ambien cr for a bit. I see my psychatrist in a week.
My psychologist I've only been seeing for a month but he hasn't really taught me relaxation techniques...Should I get a new one that understands this maybe , CBT??
I'm also on Atenolol 25 mg to keep the heart rate under control. I take .25 klonopin at least twice a day and a muscle relaxer at least once.
All I do is sit or lay in bed and its making my body especially my legs weak and ache...Although I think trazodone makes my body ache.
I am doing physical therapy for my tension in my shoulders for two weeks now...Its sorta helping.
Most importantly my family is fustrated upset with me. They can't take me being like this anymore. My mom right now is severly depressed and has MS. My dad is under high stress. And I don't know if I can go to school this week, because I feel exhausted.
My neuro says I need to move, do chores , exercise, get back to my life...But it is so hard to...
Anyone else on lexapro?
Thanks for the support!