Feel Very Negative in the morning

[joedev51]

Every morning when I wake up I feel very negative until I take my Xanax 1mg and then I feel better. I do suffer from Anxiety diorder and have panic attacks once in awhile along with agoraphobia. I have tried therapy, bio-feedback and nothing works. I can't take antidepressants because I have very bad reactions to them. I have tried every one and type you can think of and I still have the same reaction. My throat closes up, my tongue swells, my heart beat gets very slow, my muscles ache, my eyes feel like they are going to explode, my whole body goes numb, I get bad headaches along with other problems that I can't think of right now. I have seen several doctors who all have told me that I can't take antidepressants. And now this negative feeling in the morning. Along with numbness and burning on the back of my hands. Any help would be appreciated. I am building I new house and running low on money so that is adding to my anxiety.

[joedev51]

I take the Xanax 1mg in the morning and at night. My doctor didn't want to give me the Xanax or Kloonopin. He told me they were highly addictive " GARBAGE DRUGS " as he put it, but since I'm allergic to antidepressants he had no other choice. Sometimes I go back to feeling negative, other times the Xanax works fine.

[MrGreen]

So you take the doses Morning and Night? Or afternoon? Just wondering what happens when the xanax wears off? Is it back to feeling negative? Mostly they are dosed out 3 times a day. Not saying that would help any. Cause they would still wear off. Not exactly cover the whole day.

[joedev51]

I was on Klonopin for 6 months, it worked great at first. then my body adjusted to it and the negative feelings came right back. So my doctor put me back on the Xanax,but upped the dose to 1mg twice a day. And my body is adjusting to that to.

[mjbrown]

I experience the same thing. First thing in the morning, I feel panicky until I take a xanax (.5mg). Because xanax has such a short half-life, we are probably experiencing a mini-withdrawal. In other words, we are probably dependent on the xanax, and our bodies don't like it when the blood levels are dipping. My psychiatrist just gave me a script for klonopin. It's effects are supposed to last a lot longer than those of xanax, and when taken regularly, you get "even coverage." So hopefully that morning dread will go away once I actually start taking these things. I begin tomorrow, so I really have no idea how klonopin will work for me.  

[MrGreen]

So we take it that you need your morning xanax dose. Maybe it is just your body letting you know that you need the tablet. It has a unique way of doing that. If you take it at a set time be sure to take it at that time daily. We miss the time it lets us know we have not taken it. I am doubting that as part of the problem. You can normally go an hour over the normal time, or even longer, before your body misses its daily fix. As for the anti depressants? Maybe you only suffer from anxiety. The anti-depressants would make you feel a bit more anxious if this was the case. Or at least it does in some people. As anxiety has us up, and we take tablets to bring us down and relax. Anti-depressants are to bring you up. So if you are already up, the last thing you need is to be brought even higher. They could be just making you feel a lot worse. All just guess work here. I am no doctor. I am sure others will have other opinions.