3 weeks into my antidepressants

[Felix_stowe]

Starting to feel moments of detachment from the environment around me. Also moments during the day when I feel weak and nervous and a bit shaky. My doctor thinks its a magnesium deficiency but I think it's a side effect from either my ADs or blood pressure tablets. Or both. On a positive note my anxiety and panic attacks have nearly stopped and my blood pressure had started to come down. Since suffering a serious foot sports injury at the start of July I sank into depression and suffered from anxiety and panic attacks and high BP. I was in and out of hospital on drips to calm me down but they just kept returning. The doctors suggested ADs and therapy. I now have both. Hope this will put a stop to all of these problems.

Does anyone else have any feedback about AS side effects please? Thank you for listening.

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Allow a further two to three weeks to allow the medications to work

BOB

[marsdream]

Sorry about side effects. What did your doctor suggest that you should do about possible side effects? Try speaking with your doctor and hang in there!

[Felix_stowe in reply to marsdream]

Well marsdream the doctor suggested my shakes could be due to a magnesium deficiency because each time I was in hospital with high levels of anxiety and very high BP only magnesium and a calming tablet brought this under control - not the emergency BP lowering pill they usually try. So she has booked me for a test which means not taking magnesium for 7 days beforehand. She has asked for a follow-up with her a week after the test with daily BP results and any accompanying symptoms.

I'm trying to determine the trigger and it seems to happen after I do some light physical exercise like gardening for instance. But I'm on a cocktail of drugs right now due to BP, anxiety and thrombosis. It could be a side effect. I was not like this before - always active, sporty. Amazing what 3 months inactivity can do to the body.