anxiety-king
01-01-2011, 08:26 PM
For the full story, please read my thread I originally created called "my crazy 3 months (or has it been longer)". I refreshed the thread so hopefully it should come up at top of list.
I was prescribed Prozac back in May, originally the medication did not work and I was really feeling crazy, tearful and suicidal. After 6 weeks I upped my dose to 40mg per day, suffered a few minor side affects but they went away. My recovery really started from then on, to me the medication has saved my life. Although im not 100% I would say at least 80 - 90%. My sleep is back, im eating and chomping away like no tomorrow (although im probably enjoying my food too much and have piled the weight back on, so a diet may come in to place soon!). I still have the odd few moments a day where I fall in to a deep thought process of obsessive thinking, or thinking about thinking (which i know sounds very strange) however all these thoughts gradually reduced day by day, week by week, and my concentration continued to improved. I feel I have my life back, and I have goals again and have promised myself never to go back to how I was. Sometimes I don't remember how I felt when I was that bad or how I even coped but reading that below thread really upset and surprised me. Im still on the medication, Im not at all worried about dependence or even planning to come off them soon. My aim is to be 100% better then I can worry about lowering my doseage and then eventually coming off it altogether when I feel the time is right.
Keep your heads up people, I never thought I had a chance of getting over this. It took me 4 months to decide on taking medication. Yes it has worked wonders for me BUT.......... medication takes time!! It was not an overnight cure and every morning I woke up I wished it fixed me during my sleep, however over time you will notice improvements!
I was prescribed Prozac back in May, originally the medication did not work and I was really feeling crazy, tearful and suicidal. After 6 weeks I upped my dose to 40mg per day, suffered a few minor side affects but they went away. My recovery really started from then on, to me the medication has saved my life. Although im not 100% I would say at least 80 - 90%. My sleep is back, im eating and chomping away like no tomorrow (although im probably enjoying my food too much and have piled the weight back on, so a diet may come in to place soon!). I still have the odd few moments a day where I fall in to a deep thought process of obsessive thinking, or thinking about thinking (which i know sounds very strange) however all these thoughts gradually reduced day by day, week by week, and my concentration continued to improved. I feel I have my life back, and I have goals again and have promised myself never to go back to how I was. Sometimes I don't remember how I felt when I was that bad or how I even coped but reading that below thread really upset and surprised me. Im still on the medication, Im not at all worried about dependence or even planning to come off them soon. My aim is to be 100% better then I can worry about lowering my doseage and then eventually coming off it altogether when I feel the time is right.
Keep your heads up people, I never thought I had a chance of getting over this. It took me 4 months to decide on taking medication. Yes it has worked wonders for me BUT.......... medication takes time!! It was not an overnight cure and every morning I woke up I wished it fixed me during my sleep, however over time you will notice improvements!