Topic Title: Relapse of Anxiety - Please Help!
| |  "Relapse of Anxiety - Please Help!"
, Tue 4 Mar 23:32
Last July I posted a message for help, as I was suffering from debilitating anxiety as part of my recovery from anorexia. Well, taking 200mg of 5HTP a day, along with 500mg of L-Tyrosine appeared to help me tolerate Ativan, which I take .5 mg 3-4x a day. Before 5HTP and L-Tyrosine, the Ativan just made me too depressed. So from August 2002 through this past week, I felt like a normal person for once! Thank you for that! Now, however, I'm having difficulties with my estranged husband, so my severe anxiety symptoms returned last week. What should I do? I have just increased the L-Tyrosine to 1500 mg/day, and my doctor will not allow me to increase the Ativan - actually he wants me to decrease it. Any other suggestions? I am also going on vacation to hopefully destress myself.
Posts: 2 | | Registered: Fri 5 Jul 2002 19:18 |
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| | "Re(1):Relapse of Anxiety - Please Help!" , Wed 5 Mar 05:14
You can increase your dose of 5htp. Are you in therapy? Therapy helped me to overcome my anxiety and panic attacks.
MJ DuPont
Posts: 467 | | Registered: Wed 20 Jun 2001 6:19 |
| | | "Re(2):Relapse of Anxiety - Please Help!" , Wed 5 Mar 12:21
Hi Dupont,
I was in therapy for several years, but it did not help my anxiety. It did help me overcome anorexia. What helped my anxiety was when I stopped therapy, and then added the 5HTP/L-Tyrosine/Ativan pills last summer. My doctor wants me to try a stress management class, given that I separated from my husband, and it has been quite stressful. I don't have panic attacks - just a general feeling of ill health - constant waves of heat, stomach pains and a general panicky feeling all of the time. How should I increase my dose of 5htp? By 50 mg at first? I know that the extra serotonin sometimes increases anxiety in the beginning. Thank you!
Posts: 3 | | Registered: Fri 5 Jul 2002 19:18 |
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