Medication

[dunc-b73]

Hi All

I've written and replyed to several post lately as I have just join the community in relation to what I think is anxiety and my on going symptoms, everyone has been most helpful!

I want to ask the question about medication for anxiety.

About how long can meds take to be affected, side effects in your personal experiences

Cheers Dunc

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Hi dun-b73. I'm glad this site is helpful to you. It's been very helpful to me as well. I've been on the following medications:

Zoloft - HATED IT. It made me feel like I was in outer space and not in a good way. And it was horrible getting off of it. It felt like electric shocks were shooting through my brain. I quit this medication cold turkey so that's probably why. I was told that I should have gradually weened myself off of it.

Lexapro - It was ok. I believe it did help, but I quit taking it. It had bad sexual side effects (TMI, but you asked about side effects)

Paxil - I think out of all of the medications, this one worked the best. Again, I quit taking it because I would like to treat my anxiety naturally and not with drugs.

Vibryd - This is the most current drug that I've been prescribed. I don't think this worked for me at all. I still had major anxiety while using it.

Now Im using acupuncture and Chinese herbs as a way of treating my anxiety. I just started. I still have anxiety, but my symptoms aren't nearly as intense. My hope is that they will eventually go away entirely.

I hope this helped.