Anxiety controlling everything.

[ListerineYana]

Hi everyone,

I have been feeling really unwell lately and can't seem to take control on myself. I'm on 90mg Duloxetine everyday and I don't think they are enough to control my pains. Every morning I will wake up with a huge dull headache and dizziness that I can't control without taking an extra Amitriptyline with the Duloxetine dose. I feel better after 30mins of taking it but I don't want the side effects, the weight gain, the sleepiness etc What can I do instead so I don't take a lot of doses?

29 Year Old Female.

[Finglas-Boy]

Hi ListerineYana. You seem sure that much of this is down to your meds. Have you had a look @ other appropriate meds. My own experiences of some meds left me extremely "hung over", dizzy & confused. Took me ages to find acceptable alternatives (but required an understanding GP/Neuro). Was worth the struggle. Still get probs but not nearly as extreme.

[19malpas]

Hi i am to on duluxatine only 60mg i also wake up with realy bad headace lately my psyc wñt me to change them but to nervous.

[Lace2017 in reply to 19malpas]

BOTH of you get the hell off of that drug !!! anxiety does not normally cause pain... stay away from Psychiatrists !! by the time you feel well, you will not even look like the same person... you need just a G.P. @ first..... get on some celexa for the anxiety if you feel you NEED it, if you can get a friend who understands you.... just get out and have some fun.. go to the gym, go for a walk, just do it !!!

Don't let that SHRINK write another script for that drug !!! there are very few Shrinks that give a damn...THEY throw a script at you and silently tell you to get the hell out of their office...simply put, most SHRINKS suck!!!

i am not a bit remorseful that i said that... i watched a SHRINK take a beautiful girl who her brother died in a car accident and she sort of lost it...someone sent her to a Psychiatrist, by the time HE was done w her, w all the drugs he gave her, she cld barely walk, talk, or anything !! the drugs distorted that beautiful face into one of a sort of a beast !!! she died, as she had a tooth pulled and she was so drugged up from the SHRINK, after the work done on her teeth, she had a donut and was all novocained up and she literally choked to death.!!! Plus, she was AT a hospital !!! before all that medication she was sooo sweet and so much fun.... she left behind a little girl and a husband.........THINK BEFORE YOU SWALLOW ANY PILL FROM A SHRINK!!! (they are mostly all antipsychotic drugs, so they are heavy duty) you do NOT need them !!!

[Hidden in reply to Lace2017]

Anxiety can and does cause pain for many sufferers! the mind is a very powerful thing...