Posted 10/4/2011 7:42 PM (GMT -5)
I have been on ad's since 1995. I have suffered from panic disorder since I was 6 but was never treated until I was 27. I am 42 now. Dr.'s first put me on luvox, klonopin, trazadone....then a few weeks later rediagnosed me with panic disorder in addition to depression. They switched my meds to prozac, klonopin, trazadone....that was good for about 5 years then it began to poop out so they switched me to effexor xr and klonopin. That worked wonders for 3 years and then they added a small dose of zoloft...this worked wonders for another 5 years...so good in fact I thought I wa cured so dr.' weaned me off of 150 mg of effexor xr, 50 mg of zoloft and .5 mg of klonopin in 3 months after being on effexor and klonopin for 10 years. I was great for a month then bam...panic attacks returned with a vengince. I was put back on klonopin and effexor xr and trazadone for sleep. This time I began having severe headaches and jaw clenching. After two years I began to wean myself off (with the help of my dr.)...it took me a year to get off of effexor and had to be put on prozac and buspar to get me off of it. Well, in May of this year I went off of the Buspar and in June went down to 10 mg of prozac and just 25 mg of trazadone. I started having the headaches again...especially first thing in the morning when I wake up...tight jaws during the day and my blood sugar would seem to get low and I would get extremely hungry and had to eat with in like 5 minutes or I would get very edgy. In August was tested for diabetes and thyroid...both came back fine. I went off of prozac and was only on trazadone...panic attacks returned so they put me on zoloft and klonopin (after being off of klonopin for 1 1/2 years)....zoloft was tearing my stomach up...(did not have this effect previously when I took it). So dr. switched me to lexapro....was leary of weight gain because I gained 35 pounds on effexor xr but tried it...not much but a little anxiety and diarrhea the first week...felt better the second week...and panic returned on the third week...with bad diarrhea...decided to stop it after three weeks...dr. put me on cymbalta....started reading the bad withdrawals of cymbalta (similar to the ones with effexor) so after one week on cymbalta I asked dr. to switch me back to prozac....took prozac (10 mg) last night and again this morning and did not take cymbalta....the jaw clenching headaches are worse than on cymbalta or lexapro...I am thinking I did not give lexapro enough time....anyone know which ad does not cause jaw clenching? Help Please!