Is there a medicine I can take forever for anxiety?!
Question: Is there a medicine I can take forever for anxiety!?
Is there a medicine or pill that doctors can prescribe for someone to take FOREVER for anxiety!. I have chronic anxiety!. Everytime I go to the doctor, they prescribe me something with no refills, so I cant take it longer than a month!. I never mentioned that I wanted it long term until I saw the last doctor, and she prescribed me zoloft (anti-depressant)!. This didnt work at all and made me sick!. I dont think im depressive!. I just get stress and anxiety so bad that it makes me sick, no matter how much I try to calm down!. Ativan and Lorazepam both worked for me but the doctors couldnt prescribe it to me forever or give me refills because they said they dont want me to become addicted to them!. What do people with chronic anxiety take!?!? I dont want to waste my money again and go back to a doctor who trys to get me on zoloft or some anti depressant!. Is there something that works like lorazepam or ativan that you can take every month!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
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In the long run, all the sedative type drugs you mention, such as Ativan or Xanax, will lose their effectiveness even if you do not develop dependency issues!. The brain's chemistry adjusts to the effects of these drugs!. They have less and less physical effect until the point comes that you feel nothing!. Of course, this is what leads to you want higher and higher doses and it serves as the beginning point in the addiction cycle!. As far as studies have gone to this point, anti-depressants do not appear to create classic addictive behavior!. Their effect on the brain is of a much different nature!. Some of them, Zoloft being one, appear to have an anti-anxiety effect as an adjunct to their anti-depressant activity!. In each individual case, it is impossible to know whether your body will tolerate a specific one without doing a little experimenting!. For instance, I got real sick on one called Serzone, and Wellbutrin actually increased my anxiety, but I was able to handle Prozac pretty well and it had a definite anti-anxiety effect!. I probably never felt better while on it!. So don't give up on these!.!.!.!.the results may surprise you!. You should try at least three, from the various selective re-uptake inhibitor drug families, before writing this idea off!. Good luck!.!.!.I can send you some references on these if you want to know more!. P!.S!. I would add one thing!.!.!.!.you may not think you're dealing with depression, but there is really no way of telling for sure unless you plan to go through a fairly thorough counselling regimen!. About half the time, anxiety masks depression of varying degrees to the point that only a professional might be able to see it!. This is without even considering the fact that depression can take on many different forms!. Many people do not fit a good portion of the "classic' symptoms, especially if theirs is of a lower-level, chronic variety as mine was!. ;)Www@Answer-Health@Com