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How do you ease the dang anxiety, like a rock in your gut?
Since I went off Effexor I just cannot get my tummy right! Does Prozac cause this maybe? I have never felt this so awful. I wake up with it.
My mind is not worrying either. I am grateful and my list is infinite. What is wrong with me????
About to go see my doc friend. He will probably tell me to "snap out of it!" haha not really. ugh. no no caffeine, nicotine or sugar, eat healthy when I eat.
I was reading cortisol can make ya like this, that I need to eat several little meals. so I guess I can try that.
Hard when I eat one meal a day. Just am not hungry. sigh, hopeless at Eden,, debilyn
My non-professional opinion is that effexor, just like any other SSRI/SNRI or many other psychiatric drugs are dirty drugs that often make you worse than you started out. They are extremely hard to get off of.
Two things:
Maybe physically, your body is getting used to being off the drug.
Maybe youre ''rock in your gut'' feeling is the way your body is expressing anxiety.
Eat. Eat as much as you can even if you arent hungry. Drink lots of water.
Well for me, I am not on the psych meds now, but was a year ago. Actually, almost exactly a year ago, I went off. I was on klonopin for panic attacks and zoloft. The klonopin was awful to detox from. It took weeks. The zoloft I weaned off slowly and didn't have a problem. I have lived my whole life (35 years) with anxiety and depression, but those pills did nothing for me. I felt like I lived in a non-emotional box. I didn't care if anything happened. When I got off, a light went on and I cared again. Just my experience, those meds didn't help me. ANxiety can manifest itself in many ways... for me I get a stomach ache that makes me feel nausous. I feel just yucky. Maybe that is it for you? Eating yummy foods helps. Take care!!
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Aloha Debbie...Experience with being counseled (including speaking with and listening to others in program), experienced with chemicals...alcohol (gawd a liquid depressant I used to not feel depressed?...and I use to work for NASA.) and lots of others and I had no information about how I was made up and how chemicals were handled by my body...not a good idea after the fact. Experience with recovery...all level; mind, body spirit and emotions...simultaneously is what has worked (really) for me. Last time I went thru prescriptive withdrawal I was grateful to be able to do it with program and awareness from other sources. I would be okay...I didn't have to be affraid even as it appeared to be a sci-fi event. I researched other ways of healing..many including ancient practices and I kept the spiritual, mental and emotional and behavioral practices. I learned for me that when I give into the chemical solution all of the other tools get put away...This is for me only...the membership has other solutions which also work for them. (((((hugs)))))
oha! I answered everyone then it went away...rrrrr
Ok again to all. thank you!! I am seeing more it may be my bod still getting rid of the effexor. I wonder if it deposits in fat? Would make sense since i am losing fat that it may be part of it.
I have a tendancy towards anorexia. It feels like ya feel right before you throw up. sorry so graphic. so cannot just eat.
I eat extremely healthy. vegan, drink or sip water. Got a pineapple and cantalope to leave out and munch on.
fed up I have a deep tendon/muscle injury in my left calf. So I am doing stretches and the things in the Pain free book my daughter sent me.
Well so far it does seem like it may be I am still kicking that dang med. rrrrrr
I don't know if prozac is doing anything. that is ok. I am not constantly crying anyway. Just normal stuff.
thank you you all so far.
Just had some vegan meatballs. hearts of palm and mandarin oranges and water. I tried to share my not meatballs with my dogs. They just sniffed them, looked at me like this isn't food! sigh
I have contsant anxiety attacks due to PTSD. I would wake up from a dead sleep in sheer panic ready to run for safety. I must take meds for this But when it's not to bad before I take medication I have now learnd to PRAY I make up a mantra about whatever it is that I am feeling such as "please HP relieve me of this anxiety and put peace in my heart" I go to a quite place and say it over and over again in my head until I am finally at peace. In the beginning when I would do this I would go lay down and start my mantra and many a time fell asleep while saying it only to wake up in peace. right now I seem to be having anxiety that I can not put my finger on but I have not been able to sleep more than 3 hours a night. I go to sleep peacefully then boom my eyes pop open and sleep is over for me. I am not feeling anxious at least concisely (spelling) so clearly something in the depths of my mind something is going on. And I have yet to find a way to stop this. Blessings
lol Betty, come over and I will make ya spegetti and meatballs, you would not know the difference yum.
I also eat this yummy stuff that is like chicken strips. yum
My mother used to tease me and say,"you are hopeless!" lol I was always so different, thought differently. A lamb in my bedroom in diapers? Why not? lol My poor parents.
xeno YES you reminded me of saying the serenity prayer over and over putting my real thoughts, obstacles in it.
Also to all I did eat last night and now today much earlier and I do feel better. I read about cortisol and stuff, the symptoms sound like it may be that too. So doing what that is about too.
PTSD must be so awful. I know my AH suffered from that, among a bunch of other serious mental illness obstacles.
