Increased dose....increased anxiety at first normal?

[momee146]

Is it normal to have anxiety symptoms increase when you increase dosage? So worse before better kind of thing?

[momee146]

Yes, the evening is always a bit better. I am feeling slightly better the last couple days as well. Not sure if I have the patience to deal with the crying when I stop nursing.....nursing is calming to me, so I may be ok without the benzo. At least for another week or so I'll see, if its not improving much, I'll have to quit the nursing.
I'm glad for you by the way :)

[JGF25]

For the most part.  I still have to fall back on my CBT some times.  Yes...if you are nursing then of course no benzo.  A recourse would be to stop nursing and add the benzo until you feel better but I think if you can get through the next 4 weeks or so, you will notice a difference without the benzo.  Do you feel better in the evening?  

[momee146]

so is your anxiety gone now? I'm glad your feeling better :)
I'm nursing (he's 18M) but the doc said it is not ok to have a benzo while I'm still nursing.

[JGF25]

It took 4 to 5 weeks before I felt better.  It was like a lightbulb came on and it was gone.  Maybe talk to your doctor about prescribing a low dose benzo for the time being to help you get through the rough patches.  

[momee146]

my anxiety is crazy right now (day 5). I'm so terrified. How long before yours STARTED to subside? My throat feels like it's closing and I have such a doomed feeling

[JGF25]

Nursegirl is right.  I had the "jitters" when I increased my dosage as well.  It took several weeks for them to go away but they did and the medication works as well as it did before.  Hang in there.  

[momee146]

Also, this medication has been great for me in the past.......would you think it would work just as good as before? Would you mind a private msg nursegirl?

[momee146]

Plz let me know how you do with that themiddle7. I hope it goes for u soon

[momee146]

it is actually more anxiety that I am feeling, like a scared or worried feeling, heart palps.

[themiddle7]

I've doubled my dose of celexa and I've been feeling more anxious for the last 2 weeks. I'm told that it'll get better soon.

[momee146]

Thanks for answering. Ok that's what I thought. I've been on and off, up and down on Effexor XR for 12 yrs....I was on 150mg for quite a while and thought since I was doing so great that why not take less! So I went down to 75mg (6 weeks later, there was a trigger and anxiety came back and was very bad)....have been on 150 mg for the last 10 weeks...much better but not feeling back to my old self and dwelling on silly things, ruminating. So 2 days ago I started 225mg.  (Have been up to 300 in the past but I can't remember much)

[nursegirl6572]

If you're talking about an antidepressant, yes, absolutely.  That's par for the course.  Usually it's pretty short lived, it will start to improve after a few days to a week, and usually resolve completely about 2 weeks after the dosage increase, give or take.

What are you on, and what is the dose you went up to, and the dose you went up from?  Hang in there!