Going to the dr's tonight
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Going to the dr's tonight
| Mon, 10-02-2006 - 1:51pm |
for a followup. It's been six weeks on the Effexor and I am still freaking out all the time. Still convinced I just have to be dying because I am having the same pains in the same areas. I am on 50mg of Effexor. I am hoping she ups it. I did go see a therapist for the first time Weds. I don't have much to say about that because it was only one time but hopefully that will help me too. I just hate feeling like this. I am to the point where I don't want to spend money because I think I will die and my husband will need the money. Does it ever get better? I keep thinking I am not anxious, its just my intuition telling me something is really physically wrong. UGH!
Thanks for listening,
Tina








Please tell the dr. exactly how you're feeling. Especially impress on the dr. how often these fears occur. Maybe break it down into how much of your day is spent worrying. There are many options he/she can try. We have others on drug cocktails(more than one med) or like you say, maybe an increase in the effexor.
Try to look @ even an inch of progress as a positive. If you can spend 15 minutes without a health fear, that is great news for you, Tina. It can & will get better. We all have had severe spells of anxiety & had to have our meds tweaked. Wanting to get better can NEVER come soon enough for us. Good luck & GBU! We care. (((hugs))) jan
I will definitely be stressing. I mean, I have gotten better since my initial visit with her but I still have that obsessiveness I want to get rid of. But like I told my therapist, I can be having a good day and then I will get that pain and it sets me off. I'll update tonight.
Tina
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Hi, she upped my Zoloft from 50 to 100. I told her I was feeling a tad better but the obsessiveness is still there. She has no idea why I am having the breast pain/tingling sensation and said she'd send me to a specialist "to ease my mind hopefully" because I've had a mammogram and tons of other things done and she thinks once my anxiety is under control it will go away. I hate feeling like this.
I hope your dr ups your meds too. It's hard to be on medicine thinking it will help and then you are still panicky.
I did tell her about this board and she asked was it making me worse or better. I said definitely better.
Tina
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I think the med dose change will help you get rid of those feelings.
Sheri Ann
I am on zoloft.
Tina
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