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Can taking Ativan prolong your anxiety?
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Have you been diagnosed with panic attacks or generalized anxiety disorder? I’m no expert, but think there’s a difference and the medication prescribed would matter. I was prescribed Xanax for panic attacks and only used them short term when I started to feel one coming on. I learned to gradually not need the med, as I could calm myself down….learned nothing bad would happen to me. I now manage it with talk therapy.
If you are having long stretches of symptoms, you might talk to your doctor about a different kind of medication.
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I am currently on 90mg of duloxitine and have been good for 2+ years. All of a sudden almost two weeks ago I woke up and my anxiety was at 100. I don’t get attacks. I get that random spike and then i am stuck there until my body comes back down to normal
My psych is giving it 2 more weeks to come back down and then wants to up my dose of duloxetine if it doesn’t even out.
I have had issues like this in the past and come back down but hard to see that when you’re going through it. Everything makes me scared. To much or to little Ativan. Never know.
What I’m not sure is if I use Ativan is it going to cause my anxiety to last longer or will my anxiety run its course in the same time frame with or without the Ativan. Scared of everything and crying everyday.