I have been on medroxyprogesterone for about a year and doing great. Well 2 months ago my doctor switched me to Prometrium because I started having periods every 20 days. (obviously the other med just wasn't working anymore). I took the med only 13 days a month. After the first month I had nausea and vomiting and a severe anxiety attack. The second month I had nausea, dizziness, severe general anxiety, diarrhea and a major migraine headache (hadn't had one of those in at least 3 years). Anyway they stopped the medicine last wednesday. It is a hormone. I immediately started my period and just ended that today. I am dizzy and anxious and have been ever since I started the pill. My doctor told me to go back on the ativan twice a day for a couple of weeks while my hormones leveled out. So I have been taking one a day in the morning. The deal is, I do not want to take the ativan. I do not want to take anything. Yet, the dizziness and very minimal nausea is just agitating my now low-level anxiety. Should I just give in and take the dang ativan?
Another thought I had was getting some meclizine or dramamine. Has anyone used either of these and had any good effects? I do not want to be drowsy, I am in nursing school and have to be alert. This semester is over May 18th and I just want to get through it! UGH! Any advice would be great and appreciated.
My anxiety has started again because of a problem with medication...
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Your body is now being balanced by some very complicated chemical concoctions. That's one of the problems with resorting to meds. It's never as easy as just take this prescription.
When I was caring for my dementia father, I made the mistake of listening to a doctor who prescribed him psychiatric drugs for his agitation. One side affect was aggression. The other problem was that the drug only worked for so long. Like alcohol, you can drink 6 bottles and get perfectly drunk. If you do this on a regular basis, the body gets used to it and requires more to get the same high. Pretty soon, your sitting and downing a full 12 pack and it's still not enough so you switch to hard liquor.
The psychiatric meds my dad was on wore off and soon his previous symptoms began to re-emerge, the doctor would prescribe higher and higher doses of the drug. I began to realize that we were on a vicious spiral down. Dad's agitation began to increase. If I was your average family member, I would have washed my hands of dad because I could no longer control his aggressive behaviour. I would have admitted him to a nursing home where they would have drugged him even more. His remaining days would have amounted to medicinal torture. Instead< I took a leap of faith and demanded STOP!!!all medications. I had to fight the medical profession who knew best. We weaned dad off the drugs because I was dad's legal guardian. Psych drugs by the way deplete the body of vitamin B's. I strongly suspect it might have had something to do with the aggression.
In the end I discovered that the reason he displayed the original problem was because he had been admitted to the hospital briefly for an 11 day stay where they pumped him with the drug Loxipine just to restrain him from getting out of bed and leaving. The Loxipine was making his skin crawl, was causing him to lose his swallowing ability and causing him a condition called Tardive Dyskonesia. This caused him anxiety....duh.
One of the side affects of psych drugs, sleeping pills and many other meds can be aggression.
His reason for going to the hospital was low blood pressure. The Loxipine he was given destroyed his life due to the complications that followed.
If I hadn't been to hell and back, I might still be trusting the medical profession.
Today I'm sober and wiser. I can't give you advice as to what to do, I can only share with you my experiences. I just know that the anxiety is not going to go away for you just because you're covering it over.
If I were in your shoes, I'd be terrified of drugs. I would work through Lucinda's anxiety program and at the same time, do everything i could to identify the root of the anxiety problem.
I'm willing to bet that somewhere on your journey to discovery, you'll find an old trauma that needs integrating, some old experience you've long forgotten that is still causing you to "fear".
Hope things work out for you with these meds. You must be terribly frustrated. My advice I guess is: empower yourself with as much knowledge as you can. You need to be pro-active about your health.
When I was caring for my dementia father, I made the mistake of listening to a doctor who prescribed him psychiatric drugs for his agitation. One side affect was aggression. The other problem was that the drug only worked for so long. Like alcohol, you can drink 6 bottles and get perfectly drunk. If you do this on a regular basis, the body gets used to it and requires more to get the same high. Pretty soon, your sitting and downing a full 12 pack and it's still not enough so you switch to hard liquor.
The psychiatric meds my dad was on wore off and soon his previous symptoms began to re-emerge, the doctor would prescribe higher and higher doses of the drug. I began to realize that we were on a vicious spiral down. Dad's agitation began to increase. If I was your average family member, I would have washed my hands of dad because I could no longer control his aggressive behaviour. I would have admitted him to a nursing home where they would have drugged him even more. His remaining days would have amounted to medicinal torture. Instead< I took a leap of faith and demanded STOP!!!all medications. I had to fight the medical profession who knew best. We weaned dad off the drugs because I was dad's legal guardian. Psych drugs by the way deplete the body of vitamin B's. I strongly suspect it might have had something to do with the aggression.
In the end I discovered that the reason he displayed the original problem was because he had been admitted to the hospital briefly for an 11 day stay where they pumped him with the drug Loxipine just to restrain him from getting out of bed and leaving. The Loxipine was making his skin crawl, was causing him to lose his swallowing ability and causing him a condition called Tardive Dyskonesia. This caused him anxiety....duh.
One of the side affects of psych drugs, sleeping pills and many other meds can be aggression.
His reason for going to the hospital was low blood pressure. The Loxipine he was given destroyed his life due to the complications that followed.
If I hadn't been to hell and back, I might still be trusting the medical profession.
Today I'm sober and wiser. I can't give you advice as to what to do, I can only share with you my experiences. I just know that the anxiety is not going to go away for you just because you're covering it over.
If I were in your shoes, I'd be terrified of drugs. I would work through Lucinda's anxiety program and at the same time, do everything i could to identify the root of the anxiety problem.
I'm willing to bet that somewhere on your journey to discovery, you'll find an old trauma that needs integrating, some old experience you've long forgotten that is still causing you to "fear".
Hope things work out for you with these meds. You must be terribly frustrated. My advice I guess is: empower yourself with as much knowledge as you can. You need to be pro-active about your health.