I am so sad today it hurts !!

[Hope61]

my depression is really meeting to Me. I am on lector and Klonopin. It’s been a week.

[Dolphin14]

Hi Hope61

I'm sorry you are not doing well. It does take the medications a bit of time to work.

You are not getting any relief from the klonopin?

🐬

[Hope61 in reply to Dolphin14]

A little. Sometimes yes sometimes it seems known at all

[Dolphin14 in reply to Hope61]

I hope the meds take effect soon for you. Don't hesitate to reach out to your Dr for advice

[Hope61 in reply to Dolphin14]

I have an appt NEXT Tuesday which feels forever away when you feel like this. I just feel so sad and lost and lonely

[Dolphin14 in reply to Hope61]

It does feel like forever. It's hard to keep pushing through days when you are not feeling well.

I know those feelings.

So many of us here understand how you feel

[Hope61 in reply to Dolphin14]

She responded in the portal gotta wait wait one more week to evaluate since I’ve only been on one week so far

If you pray feel free to for me

[Dolphin14 in reply to Hope61]

A week is early on and that is the answer most of us get. So the big question is how do you get through this week?

It's not easy but you will get through it. If you feel worse you call again.

You are in my thoughts

🐬

[Craigliving4Jane in reply to Hope61]

Dear Heavenly Father

We come to you today to kindly ask if you can help Hope61 with her pain and struggles. If it is your will Lord direct her and her Doctor to the correct medications and amounts to greatly help with her symptoms. To give the patience needed to get through this trial and any future ones that may appear. As you know Lord this life we lead can be oh so difficult in so many ways. We need your help , your guidance and love to find our way through.

We love you Lord

In Jesus name

Amen

[Pearl67 in reply to Craigliving4Jane]

amen🙏🏼

[Hope61 in reply to Pearl67]

Thank you !!

[Hope61 in reply to Craigliving4Jane]

Beautiful !!! Thank you so much don’t stop

[Craigliving4Jane in reply to Hope61]

I won’t I’ll add you my prayer list which includes a few from here

[Hope61 in reply to Craigliving4Jane]

I appreciate you!

Found this too

Why is anxiety worse in the morning

Morning anxiety has a biological cause: Cortisol, often called the “stress hormone,” is higher during the first hour after waking for people experiencing stress. Sometimes people feel a measure of control when they worry, so they have trouble stopping the cycle.

[Craigliving4Jane in reply to Hope61]

Interesting. Thank you. My anxiety , Which after 27 years, dissipated greatly last year after discovering I was undermedicated, has not been based on worrying so much. Whatever type it was horrible.

[Hope61 in reply to Dolphin14]

Thank you for your kindness

[Hope61]

what??? Change my message??

[litethatnevergoesout]

did you question the dr why they’re prescribing you benzodiazepines? I don’t understand at all given your symptoms. especially if you say clonopin isn’t working, it won’t work for depression unless you take a ton of it daily, which prescribers just don’t just prescribe. Like 4-6 mg of clonopin.

benzodiazepines are depressant tranquilizers and compound depression. in other words, they will depress you. when taken as prescribed for anxiety issues, they work about instantaneously.

again, puzzled why you’re taking benzodiazepines, not surprised you do not notice any effect they have treating depression. call your doctor asap. you’ll be dependent on them in less than another week. you’ll need a benzodiazepine taper schedule to get rid of the withdrawal side effects of not taking them which have the pains of anxiety x100. But it’s not anxiety it’s benzo withdrawal. it takes 2 weeks to become addicted to them.

[Hope61 in reply to litethatnevergoesout]

I just started taking. A week ago for anxiety. I wasn’t taking for depression. When the anxiety lifted that’s when I feel the depression. I go back next week

[litethatnevergoesout in reply to Hope61]

Sorry, I didn’t see anything about anxiety mentioned in your post or replies, my mistake for assuming that your benzo switch and not working were due to your depression.

[yhsbirny in reply to litethatnevergoesout]

SO SICK of these knee-jerk reactions that anybody on a benzo has to get off, without looking at the individual.. They are the ONLY drugs that helps with anxiety, which usually accompanies depression. I have been on a high dose of Ativan and different anti-depressants for 12 years, and I always tell my doctor the Ativan absolutely helps and the anti-depressants I am never quite sure of. If people like you are trying to create a media-fueled and totally irrational panic about benzos like happened with opioids, where people with cancer, etc., who desperately need them cannot get them and become suicidal because of the pain, leave me out of it.

[litethatnevergoesout in reply to yhsbirny]

That wasn’t my intention at all, the poster only mentioned depression so I wrote what I did based off of the impression I got which was the benzos were treating depression.

[yhsbirny in reply to litethatnevergoesout]

Many times it is hard to distinguish between depression and anxiety which is why a knowkedgable doctor will usually treat both at the same time.

[litethatnevergoesout in reply to yhsbirny]

I’m on board with you regarding the sentiments and demonizing benzos. I respect your opinion. Benzodiazepine is being nudged down the narcotic path. People that need a stronger medicine for the pain they’re in aren’t getting it.

[Hope61 in reply to yhsbirny]

Agreed but I like starting with one just in case something dosent agree with you you can figure out which one it was. Believe I had a nightmare happen when I was out on two meds at the same time

[Hope61]

oh that’s ok. Yes she put me on 10 mg lepto which I have been on for a week. The Klonipan is to replace the Xanax a primary doctor put me on for anxiety when everything first happened in December

With the losses. Maybe that makes more sense

[catsrock]

I'm so sorry you are having such a rough time. I hope things are better very soon.

[Hope61 in reply to catsrock]

Thank you ! 🙏🏻

[barlock]

klonopin helped me over a major mood swing. am hoping to get back on alprazolam soon as a quick fix, I am going to take a gene test to see if that will help get me on something on a daily basis, so far i have tried so many pills with so many side effects they left me worse than i started. good luck to the both of us. will keep you up to date

[Hope61 in reply to barlock]

How do you get a gene test ?

[barlock in reply to Hope61]

i am in minnesota. just asked my dr. they will send the test to your home and you fill out the information when you send it back they will let you know if your insurance will cover it our if you have to pay. the cost is around 300 dollars

[Hope61 in reply to barlock]

I meant I’m in ny

[yhsbirny in reply to Hope61]

It is a DNA mouth swab test from a company called GeneSight (Google them). A doctor has to order it and administer it, and it is done in their office. I had one done several years ago and it showeed my metabolism was not compatible with SSRIs, which I had been taking for years with few results. Switched to Cymbalta, an SNRI recommended by the test, and it was a world of difference.

[Hope61 in reply to yhsbirny]

So interesting I hope my psychiatrist is open to it

[Hope61 in reply to barlock]

are you in the states

[Hope61]

ok I’m in my and call Quest and they said your doctor has to order it for you. Who knows I would love to do it

[barlock in reply to Hope61]

good luck . we will have to keep in touch. i am female 78 and have been going thru this for 10 years now. I think it started mostly when i acquired COPD and then got pneumonia a couple of times real bad. (hospital) the depression and anxiety started after that. i always feel frightened.

[Pitalife]

Hope u feel better,for me klonopin was like miracle drug,and then had to move to south fla,to care for elderly mom,w mental illness, they took me off klonopin as it was keep saying its addict6 factor, Bs I never avmbusrd my meds n been denied, try to use klonopin wisely n it's great help w anxiety