Ok, so its been a couple yrs since I have been on the site. I finally got well enough with the panic/anxiety attacks and all that I was able to get my dream job of being a 911 Dispatcher (Yes, I know INSANE!) but I have been working for the past two yrs almost and all of a sudden I am having problems with this again. I LOVE my job but the 12 hr shifts and stress of it are getting to me so I am stepping down to Receptionist but still with the police dept.
In doing this I have had to start Ativan again to be able to make it through some nights at work. I finally decided its time for something stronger and since the 12 yrs before I had ried every drug out there pretty much the doc said well we never did try Imipramine so thats what he gave me. I tend to be sensitive to meds so he only put me on 25mgs to start with. So my question is who has taken this and did it help? Any problems/symptoms?
Thanks
Imipramine?
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Hey Heather. My name is TAmi and i take imipromene and I think it is great I take 50 mill. three times a day and 100 mill. every night with 150 mill. of trezedone at bed time I have been on prozac and paxill and effexor and nothing has worked as well for me as the imipramine .The thing I like the most about it is that the docters can make sure it is at a theraputic level in your body by doing blood work on you so it is definately a medication that can be monitered which is great I have always been verrry anxious any way about taking any kind of medications , but this one has proved tred and true.I even lost 20 pounds on it. It never ever has caused me to be more Anx. the only side affect I have experienced with it is a verrrry dry mouth(I can deal with that if it helps me with my severe depression and severe anxiety(I was hospitalized for eight days and I know it was the imp. that worked for me. Now I am calmed down enough to start working on my life skills to change some of these bad ahbits that trigger my depp. and anxiety / all in all I have had a very positive experience with this medication I hope that your experience is a as good. Tami
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I have been on imipramine since the middle 80s not sure exactly what year I started taking it.It has helped me a lot.It helped with ocd.
I started on 25 mg a day and very slowly worked
my way up to 50 mg 4times a day later I found out you could take it all at night.
I now take 2 50 mg pills at night.I have worked my way down to one 50 mg pill aday.I have wanted to get off of medicine totally but I have never over came my agrophobia totally.I have been anxiety and panic attack free.Phobias are another the medicine takes the edge off of panic.doesn't totally take ever bit of anxiety like the dr told me the medicine can't do it all a person would have to be in a vegetive state to not feel any anxiety it is a normal part of live we have blown it up.I found out about the medicine thru a dr david sheehan who
said anxiety was a disease and if you got the medicine regulated just right you could block the panic attacks and his dosage got real high I have a book called the anxiety disease he gives the drugs and the dosages side effects which are a little scary. the dosage he gives is between 100 mg 450 mg.I once wrote to a lady that took a high does of zanax.I have been waiting for 30 years for a new drug to wipe out panic attacks.then I got the program and it says we cause our panic and that was not what I wanted to hear.the more I think of it I realize I do have the key I just need to use it .I don't want to face that is the problem.I have regressed a little and I am at a place where I need to do something. Happy New Year!!!!
I started on 25 mg a day and very slowly worked
my way up to 50 mg 4times a day later I found out you could take it all at night.
I now take 2 50 mg pills at night.I have worked my way down to one 50 mg pill aday.I have wanted to get off of medicine totally but I have never over came my agrophobia totally.I have been anxiety and panic attack free.Phobias are another the medicine takes the edge off of panic.doesn't totally take ever bit of anxiety like the dr told me the medicine can't do it all a person would have to be in a vegetive state to not feel any anxiety it is a normal part of live we have blown it up.I found out about the medicine thru a dr david sheehan who
said anxiety was a disease and if you got the medicine regulated just right you could block the panic attacks and his dosage got real high I have a book called the anxiety disease he gives the drugs and the dosages side effects which are a little scary. the dosage he gives is between 100 mg 450 mg.I once wrote to a lady that took a high does of zanax.I have been waiting for 30 years for a new drug to wipe out panic attacks.then I got the program and it says we cause our panic and that was not what I wanted to hear.the more I think of it I realize I do have the key I just need to use it .I don't want to face that is the problem.I have regressed a little and I am at a place where I need to do something. Happy New Year!!!!
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hi heather,
i was on imipramine for quite a few years...125 mg. every night. I went off of it for some strange reason and now Iam going back on it. I never realized how much it was helping me until i made the mistake of going off of it. It takes awhile for it to kick in...the only side effect i recall is dry mouth. I would definately try it if i were you...just remember to be patient.
good luck,
erin
i was on imipramine for quite a few years...125 mg. every night. I went off of it for some strange reason and now Iam going back on it. I never realized how much it was helping me until i made the mistake of going off of it. It takes awhile for it to kick in...the only side effect i recall is dry mouth. I would definately try it if i were you...just remember to be patient.
good luck,
erin