Hello all,
I've posted on here on similar topics before, but still trying to work out what is going on? Basically, I've had problems with anxiety on and off, which I think were initially triggered by a medication I was taking. I have also had problems with extreme fatigue and drowsiness. I had started taking benzos last year, and I think a lot of the ongoing residual anxiety was benzo withdrawal. Anyway, I'm doing a lot better with the withdrawal this time around, and I'm down to half a mg of diazepam a day. Still getting anxiety when I first wake up, but it is manageable.
However, I am having a enormous flare-up of fatigue. I am sleeping well, but I just cannot seem to wake up properly at all. The fatigue has been a problem for as long as the anxiety, but at the moment I am getting major fatigue without much anxiety. I just feel really drowsy throughout the day, and could fall asleep at any moment. I am therefore wondering if this is related to the benzo withdrawal as well?
I am also on simvastatin, which seems to cause fatigue in some people, although I am not getting the usual muscle aches and pains that people report with statins: just this constant feeling of drowsiness.