thebaseball2001
08-29-2016, 10:32 AM
Hi All,
I am currently taking Effexor for long running anxiety. I take 150mg per day and have been for about 5 weeks now. I also take 1mg of Xanax in the day and 1mg in the evening and have been doing that for probably 6 months. Last week I ran out of the Xanax for about 3 days and I was in a terrible places mentally. I felt like my mind awareness on steroids. Visually everything seemed really strange, almost like I was sensitive to everything around me like light and movement. Loud noises bothered me a lot and made me anxious and irritable. I have been dealing with high blood pressure for about a month and it was running very high all 3 days (and that raised my anxiety even more). And I couldn't think straight, everything seemed harder to come by like memory and my words when speaking. Most distressing of all is the feeling of detachment I get, like my surroundings seem flat and my emotions are flat. As soon as I got the Xanax filled and took a few, things started to calm down some and since this past weekend I have been able to cope better now that I am taking the Xanax again.
It seems to me that without that little bit of Xanax, my body and mind are like an open nerve. Everything gets amped up and I have a very hard time coping. At this point I am wondering if Effexor is doing anything for me at all. I was hoping that would control the anxiety and the Xanax would serve as an emergency go to but it doesn't seem to be working that way. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Chad
I am currently taking Effexor for long running anxiety. I take 150mg per day and have been for about 5 weeks now. I also take 1mg of Xanax in the day and 1mg in the evening and have been doing that for probably 6 months. Last week I ran out of the Xanax for about 3 days and I was in a terrible places mentally. I felt like my mind awareness on steroids. Visually everything seemed really strange, almost like I was sensitive to everything around me like light and movement. Loud noises bothered me a lot and made me anxious and irritable. I have been dealing with high blood pressure for about a month and it was running very high all 3 days (and that raised my anxiety even more). And I couldn't think straight, everything seemed harder to come by like memory and my words when speaking. Most distressing of all is the feeling of detachment I get, like my surroundings seem flat and my emotions are flat. As soon as I got the Xanax filled and took a few, things started to calm down some and since this past weekend I have been able to cope better now that I am taking the Xanax again.
It seems to me that without that little bit of Xanax, my body and mind are like an open nerve. Everything gets amped up and I have a very hard time coping. At this point I am wondering if Effexor is doing anything for me at all. I was hoping that would control the anxiety and the Xanax would serve as an emergency go to but it doesn't seem to be working that way. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Chad