Time of Day Anxiety Strikes

[FJOHNONE]

I  have the weirdest thing I want to share with everyone. My anxiety symptoms have cycles! I get up around 7:00 am and read the paper and eat breakfast around 9:00. None or minor symptoms. Symptoms begin at 9:30 and include, heat radiating in my arms, weakness in the thighs, head pressure, extreme sleeppyness, bleary eyes, and nausea.
This persists until noon or one when I have lunch. I have to take a nap because I am so tired. The nap is the worst because I can't sleep and yet am so tired. Symptoms are severe at this point. I get up around 3 and workout at my club. The symptoms start to leave me about a half hour into my workout. I get home and have a late dinner. Never, ever do I have the symptoms persist into dinner, around seven. As a matter of fact I comment to my wife that "I can feel them leaving me." I even have tried to recreate the symptoms with negative thoughts and have not been able to do so. I go to bed, take my Ambien, and have a good night's rest.
I take Ativan, as needed (nap) and have just completed a Lexapro withdrawal and have switched to Prozac (20mg) which has not kicked in yet.
I would encourage everyone to take a good look at your symptoms and see if there is a cyclical effect. For me, just taking this look gives me more of a sense of control against that which is such a mystery (anxiety).

[RubyWitch]

What my learned g/f has said has a great deal of validity.........the pesky "rebound" thing. Anxiety, while it CAN and DOES strike us anytime of the day or night, has been proven to peak during the morning hours.  
I wish I was a pharmacist so I could really help you understand what your body is going through right now..........which is quite a bit after a w/d from Lexapro, then toss in the Ativan, the Ambien and the Prosac and it's no wonder you get so tired in the afternoon!
I appreciate the heads up for all of us to take a look at our "cycles," but I would urge you to call your doc and tell them about your need to nap and discuss why your anxiety seems to reappear around the same time everyday. Could be nothing. Could be something. Better to be "in the know....."
Peace
Greenlydia

[Jade59]

I bet you start to feel better in the afternoon/evening because you've taken the Ativan for the nap.  I think Ativan can work for up to 6hrs, then your ready for bed, take Ambian and by the time you wake up in the morning your body is ready for another Ativan, but you don't take it so you suffer from rebound anxiety.    

What do you think?