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Why don’t anxiety meds work for me?
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@jschwing
Originally, the only medication I was on for close to 30 years was the Effexor (no benzos). It was my decision to stop it. God only know why I made such a life altering decision. I honestly didn’t know you had to taper off of it. All my horrors could have been avoided if I had only looked up on line ‘getting off Effexor.’ The answer most people gave was don’t try. If it works for you, stay on it. After going into withdrawal from the Effexor, I was put on every medication under the sun to try to help. I refused to take the antipsychotics but was open to pretty much everything else including the benzos. As I said, my husband is taking care of me but he is starting to slow down. I worry I will wind up hospitalized when he can no longer assist me.
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Hi Claudia:
Are you sleeping at least some in the evening? The sleep has been such a struggle with all of this.
I was planning on staying on Paxil for the rest of my life. Then, after a surgery with a nerve block, everything changed. That is why I wonder if the long term use of the SSRI created risk for a relapse or the neuro toxicity caused the change. The Paxil dose was increased, but I could not tolerate it and, like you, none of the medications have been successful in improving the baseline depression, or anxiety.