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Scared of meds for anxiety

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Sep 4 7:57am | Replies (28)

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@mwilhe02 Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. When your doctor switched your medications, did they talk to you about titrating off, lowering your dose slowly before starting the new medication? Is the new one Ativan? It could be that if you stopped one and just started on another, you were not able to give your system a chance to get used to a decreased dose. Have you spoken to your doctor about what you are experiencing?

Please call them today, and let me know what they say, okay?
Ginger

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Ginger, Yes the new one is Ativan. No just a switch from one to another for a week. 0.5. I'm to take ½ as needed. Then he said only for a panic attack which I felt was happening every am. I was taking xanax .5 breaking it in half taking one in am and the other in pm and trying to build up on zoloft. Today stopping cold turkey after 1 month was terrible. Just had a meeting with a licensed counselor who told me this was withdrawls and to take half tonight and if need be I can wean off slowly. But not this fast. It is just causing me more anxiety and we r trying to reduce it. He is going to reach out to my doctor as well. Thx u 4 ur response!