PCOS Messages for October, 2002: Re: Anyone taking Xanax

Re: Anyone taking Xanax

From: Barb (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 8 Oct 2002 02:08:19 -0500 (CDT)

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Thanks Kimberly,

I do know alot about medications,especially xanax. It can take up to six weeks for this med to work in the system.It is unlike valium that works right away as more of a muscle relaxant. I also know that it has to build up in the blood stream and to be taken at the same time daily to avoid what is called a "trough"...the rebound anxiety. You reach a plateau two hours after taking it,..then you go down...down and then you need more to be brought back up.Xanax has some anti-depressant qualities in it as well and my doctor and I discussed this at great length before I decided to give it a try.I was on valium and it did nothing as the clonazepam.I was on clonazepam since the second of August and it had absolultey No effect on heart palps...made me very nervous and the valium...I thought it had to be a placebo!Really!Clonazepam made me tired yet extremely nervous and heart pounded more.Valium maybe made me relaxed for an hour....that is it...but again...no effects on heart palps...none have had that accept the xanax yesterday.

I know I need to keep taking this and geez...I was the girl last year writing a message to everyone NOT to take anti-depressants and look where I am now.

I am in a bad place and have been for so long that everything seems unreal already.My illness's and doctors getting me frightened that I still have some dire,yet undiagnosed illness,...yet the tests they perform show nothing seriously wrong with my heart.Yeah...like my uncle that had a complete physical....had a stress test....walked out of the Wpg clinic and dropped dead right there of a heart attack back in the eighties.I trust no one..I trust myself.I am sick and tired of doctors telling us women that all we experiene is farting stress! I was taken off work almost six years ago being told all was stress till my legs turned fricken purple...I was malnourished...had diabetes insipidus and was thought of to be anorexic till they did some tests to see why I was not absorbing food.This is a nightmare..constant nightmare!I cannot believe this is happening to me anymore. I got my diagosis of lupus(now told it was drug induced),and my antibodies are negative for the disease.Have not had another MRI done.PCOS was just a coincidental finding with my diabetes insipidus.I wrote book long posts on that one.

Thanks for listening...I need to know someone that understands is on the other end.No one here can calm me and my special friend is on a convention that I would have loved nothing more to go to with ,but I was too frickin sick.

I will give this xanax a try....yesterday was such a good day...probably the one day out of six years that I had no pain and actually felt alright.

I get my hopes up high and then this happens and I fall to pieces. I know I am hoping in a way that it is stress or panic as I know there are so many ways it can be corrected.A bad heart is hard to heal.I need to go with my instincts and I still suspect that there is something wrong with my heart. I can just be sitting quietly...reading a book....and Bang....my whole body is moving..you can see my blouse ties moving to the beat of my heart...my damn hair on my head is moving..I am not kidding...my friends actually panic when they see this.Then I panic.The feelings are totally undescribable...unbearable to say the least.

All I wish is that they can help me.

Thanks again...I am really panicky how I will get through another day tomorrow.

I really am scared. LAst trip to er scared the cr*ap out of me and that was not that long ago...thus the reason for yet another 24 hour heart monitor.I think it just happens that the times I have had these 24 hour deals that my heart does not want to do it's thing.I was told there is no arrythmia,but my heart monitor and me,myself and I see it skip and miss beats where it takes my breath away.The day of the holtor...no skips or missed beats...just one thing that he said was an extrasystole or something...I don't know anymore.I like to blame it on pcos...I want to blame it on my IR..I need to know what the hell is causing this.I have no other symptoms of panic....nothing..nadda....just a racing heart...and sometimes I near faint...my legs hurt and discolor....what's up with this...vascular doc says it is normal for my feet to be discolored..yep....everyone has red,purple and blue feet.he happened to see the distal half of the toes and wrote that they were reddish....hmmm..guess that was on a red day..not a purple or blue day.Can you imagine if your feet turned colors of the american flag? Yep...I am panicy.....

Thanks for rooting...I need all I can get now! Barb

>
>Barb - please stick with the xanax. It might be uncomfortable for
>awhile, but you HAVE to know what is causing your problems - and if it
>is anxiety, you really need to know. Most drugs in this class need
>several weeks to over a month to begin working at their full capacity.
>I'm not sure about xanax - but do some research and find out how long it
>takes to fully kick in- that way you will know when you should stop it
>if it's not working. I started taking wellbutrin for smoking and it
>took 6 weeks TO THE DAY for the side effects to go away. I didn't think
>I was gonna be able to stay on it, but I swore I'd give it the full six
>weeks, and I'm so thankful I did. Perhaps you should try some valium or
>other similiar drug to see if that helps. I'm not saying you should
>become dependant on all sorts of drugs - I'm more interested in ruling
>things out so you can have a better chance at getting better. (i.e. if
>valium and xanax can't get you and your heart to calm down, you need to
>look more aggressively to the physical aspect and stop worring so much
>about the psychological aspect) I know you are health conscious and it
>is hard for you to take meds, but life will not be worth living until
>you get this under control - so dope up girlfriend, and find out if
>anything can help you! ;) The biggest mistake you can make is giving up
>on the xanax before it's had time to work - it could be the answer to
>some of your problems, and if you quit now, it is unlikely you will ever
>try it again, and that might keep you from EVER feeling better. Keep
>your chin up and relax as much as you can. We're all rootin' for you.
>
>--
>Kimberly
>
>At Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Barb wrote:
>>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I realize that ALL of the benzodiazepams are addictive,but for now this
>>seems to make the difference in whether or not I can function in a day
>>to a degree or sit all day with a rapid heartbeat.I hate any
>>psychotrophic medications period...but this one gave me a hope that
>>possibly the heart palps were all stress related.I guess not,as I am in
>>a panicy state right now and heart is palping like crazy and I am
>>deathly scared.I don't get this at all.
>>SO scared!I also know that xanax can cause heart palps....I don't know
>>in my case what is what anymore.They come and they go and seems
>>yesterday they lifted my mood and today had no effect whatsoever.
>>I am really on the verge of suicide these days as these palpitations and
>>sensations are driving me crazy.
>>
>>I feel that there is no hope left for me.
>>I feel so much despair.
>>What is wrong with me?
>>What is it going to take for someone to see what these heart palps are
>>doing to my life?
>>I cannot lead a normal life.I feel like a 85 year old woman.
>>
>>Barb
>>>
>>><PRE>Yes I took Xanax and It is very addicting and I only took one a night .Also
>>>any kind of antianxiety medicine is, so be careful.There is a websight about
>>>it and sorry I cant think of it now but look it up !!!!Goodluck and stop now
>>
>>--
>>Sincerely,
>>Barb C.
>>

--
Sincerely,
Barb C.

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