Docs just put me on diazepam 2mg as and when I need it so I can cope with the side effects of the Prozac (until the Prozac get in my system) - anyone got anything on diazepam? i took 1 over 2 hours ago and its doing nothing? its bloody valium and its doing nothing!!!!

Pantzzzzzz

You make me laugh.

Ok i took valium for a few years before i took Prozac, on an as and when basis. They gave me 5mg to start with, which i took for flying, and at first it made me feel like i could fly without the plane !!

Then as my anxiety got worse the valium started to have less effect, until 5mg wasnt enough so id take another 2 and thatd be 7mg, that hardly had an effect. 2mg wont touch most people, i would go back to the doc and ask if he can give you 5mg, but frankly in my opinion if your anxiety is high, which it seems, the valium wont really make much difference, it didnt for me :(

Get further advice from your doc.

Take 6mg daily on an empty stomach and you'll feel it help.

2mg tablets are a very lose dose to give an adult, would hardly fidge a mouse.

Ha Ha Glenz,

I was gonna say that too.

Pantzzzzz if your around, how are you getting on with 2mg? Is it helping?

Let me know

:)

Yeah I'm still here, not really had to bother with them, i'm sticking with the Prozac, 3 weeks in now and feeling it, think they are starting to kick in so fingers xrossed

Ha I had to laugh, we are all from the UK and on Valium!!

I have been on them for 2 years with no problems... 2mg is not a strong dose so don't worry...Mandy

Glad your getting a better feeling with Prozac Pantz. SEE i told you didnt i? at first things are so bad you really dont think anything will help. Its amazing how meds can and do work, given time. Keep us posted Pantz.. :)

Its still pretty rough to-be honest, i went to see my physcologist today and he's told me to stick with them as i've not been on them long - i'm also going to spend a couple of weeks in the Priory from monday on a CBT and theraphy course so hopefully that will get me over the line.......

Pantz...

You will be fine, the Priory is good, a friend was there for a month. Tell me was that expensive? or can you get it on a private med insurance.

I'm pretty fed up today..... Before this anxiety started in January i booked my family a holiday to Australia. Then all this came about and i and my Doctor and my Therapist just knew i wouldnt make it, so i cancelled it and thought my insurance would cover it. As its turned out they wont pay a penny to me so i have lost £1500 in deposits. We saved 5 years for this holiday. I didnt realise insurance companies dont cover for mental illness. I think its discriminating, as if id have had heart failure or cancer they woulda paid out :(
(not doing much for my anxiety i can tell you .)

Its still pretty rough to-be honest, i went to see my physcologist today and he's told me to stick with them as i've not been on them long - i'm also going to spend a couple of weeks in the Priory from monday on a CBT and theraphy course so hopefully that will get me over the line.......

Pay attention to that CBT course....it'll do you more good than a truckload of Valium, and Prozac combined, if you learn the trick to it..

Trust me, it saves my life all the time.

Lil

I'm pretty fed up today..... Before this anxiety started in January i booked my family a holiday to Australia. Then all this came about and i and my Doctor and my Therapist just knew i wouldnt make it, so i cancelled it and thought my insurance would cover it. As its turned out they wont pay a penny to me so i have lost £1500 in deposits. We saved 5 years for this holiday. I didnt realise insurance companies dont cover for mental illness. I think its discriminating, as if id have had heart failure or cancer they woulda paid out :(
(not doing much for my anxiety i can tell you .)

I am going to preach a little here....I am including myself in the sermon......

Read this post....think of all the things that we haven't done, because of our anxiety......I could think of probably 50 anyway, if I had time to do it.

Think of it in a way of missing good things, like holidays, and how we "limit" ourselves with our anxiety. Not as in "poor me, I'm sick".

Only "I" can stop my anxiety, because it's in "my" head.

End of sermon....coffee has been set up in the rectory.....sorry.....nevermind

Lil

Ha ha Lil,

That brought a smile to my face, but it has an element of truth to it.

Its crazy because we saved for 5 years for this holiday only to lose £1500 in non refundable internal flights. Hey ho, id like to say by next year we can go and i wont be afraid anymore, but right now i know i couldnt have done it.

Its the nature of the "mental health" beast.