Glad to hear you're feeling better. Birth control pills most definitely will cause anxiety, as they are hormones. That would have been my first guess as well.
UPDATE: I stopped taking the Birth Control pills for 2 days and feel better. I guess that's what it was.
I have been on Celexa for over a year and I lowered it to see if I could be ok (depression) without it. But my depression came back. So now I'm upping it back to the dose I was origionally on. It takes about a week for my body to adjust to any dose changes. Since I've been on my typical dosage since 3 weeks ago, I can rule out Celexa. My doctor does know about my Celexa. My first guess it the Birth Control. If you take Xanax or Lunesta occauonally, can it cause anxiety when you aren't taking it? As if your body is addicted or something? I never want to be addicted.
Celexa makes some people more anxious if they are taking too little. I never experienced that when I took it and had to move up from 20 to 30, but my pharmacist said some people claim that happens, which means no one can prove it since it is difficult for a patient with anxiety to calculate their anxiety level. It is a bit of a subjective calculation. 30 did the trick for me but it took weeks to get any good effect from the increase.
I have not heard that the moving up to a higher dose temporarily increases your anxiety level. There are so many factors involved that make a person anxious that it is difficult to pinpoint any specific factor, so you could have been going through a more anxious period that week for any number of reasons.
Since it takes up to 8 weeks to get the full effect from a Celexa dosage, it is premature to be making a call about whether you are at the right dosage on the 7th day or whether the Celexa has increased your anxiety but won't release you from that stress as it seems you are claiming.
You must have been anxious 7 days ago for you to decide to you up your dosage then - I would wait 3 or more weeks to see what the effect of the increased dosage is
I assume your doc told you to increase your dosage, otherwise if you did it on your own perhaps a trip to see doc is needed.
I have been on Celexa for over a year and I lowered it to see if I could be ok (depression) without it. But my depression came back. So now I'm upping it back to the dose I was origionally on. It takes about a week for my body to adjust to any dose changes. Since I've been on my typical dosage since 3 weeks ago, I can rule out Celexa. My doctor does know about my Celexa. My first guess it the Birth Control. If you take Xanax or Lunesta occauonally, can it cause anxiety when you aren't taking it? As if your body is addicted or something? I never want to be addicted.
I don't know anything about Celexa. If you are upping it and then getting the anxiety, it sounds like that is your problem. Did your doctor tell you to up it? I would talk to him about what you are experiencing. He probably could tell you if that could be causing your anxiety and what you need to do.
It seems like the anxiety has been for a few weeks. I have been upping my Celexa very slowly to the normal dose I have taken in the past. Every time I up it, there's always a small adjustment period if a about a week which causes me anxiety. But that window has closed. I was thinking ut's the birth control. Unless I am getting addicted to Lunesta or Xanax. Again I take them maybe twice a week.
Meds
Celexa 15mg
Lunesta 3mg
Xanax .25
Ortho Cyclean
How long have you been having anxiety? People are different, but I can not take birth control pills. They made me feel awful and throw up. When I tried them years ago, I had never dealt with anxiety. My guess would be birth control pills. If it is caused by your medication. Xanax should help your anxiety, and I have been taking lunesta for a long time without any problems with anxiety. It seems to help me to take it. It calms me down better than anything besides my anxiety medicine.