Quote from worrywort:

I am going crazy, Yesterday I wasn't feeling good, Might have been ibs, Then of course my mind goes crazy and I panic and it makes it even worse. I woke up with panic attacks twice last night, Took some xanax and went to bed. I woke up this morning with panic and still feel very spacy and out of it. I try and tell myself this is just panic but it is so hard. I feel like everytime I have a bad day or two My life is ending or something, Start thinking about the death stuff and all of that b.s. I am on 40mg of prozac and I take xanax as needed....EVERYDAY .25. I am stressing out because i am going back to college in june and I am scared that I won't feel better. I see my gen prac next week because of course I am convinced something is wrong with me. It has been a while since I felt like this. I hate it. Please any advice for me.
:angel: Carly

Dear worrywort,
If you felt better on a lower dosage of Prozac then your Doctor should bring you back down. If you have never felt better on Prozac then it might not be right for you. It is really a depression medication although they say it will work for panic attacks. I would say more like mild anxiety. 0.25mg of xanax is only a sleeping pill dosage and I have said this over and over and everyone wants to say take them as needed but that only works for some. Most of them I would assume don't have that bad a condition to begin with. If the condition was bad enough they would need a benzo on a constant dosage. Let me re-state that. Some of them may have learned to manage it on an as needed basis and do have a bad condition. All I am trying to say is that, "if the condition warrants xanax to stop the attacks, then it will probably be a constant dosage and Klonopin should be tried first if the answer is a benzo. If you were okay with less prozac tell your Doctor that this is not working out. I would call him, I wouldn't suffer for his schedule. Hope you don't feel to bad.

Sincerely,

Sickman :)

Hi, I have tried klonopin...It didn't do nothing for me, I also tried ativan...did nothing. I started to get more panicky that is why I went to my psych and he upped my dose. That was just about two weeks ago. I have a feeling it might be the xanax, I really don't know, I am scared that something else is wrong with me. I get headaches and weird pains. I worry myself so much I think that all of this worry is going to kill me. I have had panic for years but they just diagnosed me about 5 months ago, I had lots of health problems as a child and I think that is a big part of my health anxiety. I was at the doctors a lot as a child. The bigest thing for me is the heart skipping beats or whatever the hell it is doing. I have never really had that as on going as it has been. I have had ekg's and stuff. I feel like nothing will reassure me that it is not my heart, and if it isn't my heart it is my brain. I just want answeres to why my heart skips or why I get headaches a lot when I never did before. I understand that all of this can be realted to anxiety but I want to hear my doctor say it. I will try cbt. Thank you for the input. I appreciate it.
:angel: Have a good one
Carly

Quote from worrywort:

Hi, I have tried klonopin...It didn't do nothing for me, I also tried ativan...did nothing. I started to get more panicky that is why I went to my psych and he upped my dose. That was just about two weeks ago. I have a feeling it might be the xanax, I really don't know, I am scared that something else is wrong with me. I get headaches and weird pains. I worry myself so much I think that all of this worry is going to kill me. I have had panic for years but they just diagnosed me about 5 months ago, I had lots of health problems as a child and I think that is a big part of my health anxiety. I was at the doctors a lot as a child. The bigest thing for me is the heart skipping beats or whatever the hell it is doing. I have never really had that as on going as it has been. I have had ekg's and stuff. I feel like nothing will reassure me that it is not my heart, and if it isn't my heart it is my brain. I just want answeres to why my heart skips or why I get headaches a lot when I never did before. I understand that all of this can be realted to anxiety but I want to hear my doctor say it. I will try cbt. Thank you for the input. I appreciate it.
:angel: Have a good one
Carly

WorryWort,

I just wanted to let you know that when I was on xanex it made my heart skip beats, then I would get a really hard beat that actually hurt. Do you feel them in different places? If so, that is called scattered heart beats and it is caused by medication. It scared me too, but I was happy to know that it was only the medication. I would still talk to your doctor and let him know what's going on just to be sure. I hope you feel better soon hun.

Chantel