Hi Coffeebean,
Please do NOT get off the lorazapam all by yourself!! You can have some major withdrawls from this!!! have your doc. ween ya from it, if you feel you can and want to get off this! Love, Desi

hello there!

You are absolutely correct, as are the people who responded to you, that anxiety, and moods/mental mood changes, are a part of RSD. This is why it is suggested that psychological treatment, and or medication, play a crucial role in the treatment of RSD (always remembering that RSD came causes the depression and anxiety, not the reverse).

I, like you, had, prior to my RSD had problems with anxiety. I had been on Diazepam (very similiar to the medication that you mentioned ) 4 YEARS before my RSD. However, as time progressed, I noticed that my anxiety was not only greater/more frequent, but it was anxiety "out of the blue" and for no reason or known trigger. Previously, though i was taking anti-anxiety meds, at a low dose, even then, the anxiety I felt was in proportion to a situation or related to something I could put my finger on (ie, a job interview, driving to a new place and fear of getting lost). However, after RSD, my anxiety was constant, and usually was triggered by nothing at all. I talked to my doc about it, and he explained it much like those below have written about anxiety, moods, emotions period, and how the lymbic system ties into all that and regualtes it. To make an already long story short, my doc doubled my dose of anti-anxiety meds (which still is not a high dose by any means), and I have had no further problems since....

hope this helps..

My anxiety has been worse lately again. It seems like it comes and goes. I try to control it myself anymore due to not being able to do most meds.

This past week, I fired one of my caregivers which was my son-in-law's sister. She got to where she wasn't showing a lot nor doing her job. I was so stressed yesterday when she showed, I called up and let her go. That's stress for me not guts. LOL

I have tightened up on my boys and what they do when they are here and they keep asking what's wrong with me. I get so stressed from too many kids around, I finally told them, just the two of them come and go.

I think too, it is when our pain level is higher. Mine has been lately and we have gotten most of it calmed down with TPI's and I am now off of my Methadone. My next thing is to get off of my prevacid. It seems there are too many side effects for me no matter what I take.

I do think though as I said when we go into flares our stress and anxiety is much much worse.

Ada

Ada,

...trying to lend my assistance with the issues that you mentioned about anxiety. Which meds are you unable to take? Are you talking strictly about anti-anxiety drugs that you are unable to take? Let me know which ones you have taken that don't work, and I can easily offer you some alternative meds to try and some good dosage recommendations to recommend to your doctor. If you have a good doctor, this can be easily fixed and decrease your stress dramatically.

What I am running up with on meds, is that they cause me chest pain.

This has been going on for over 8 years. I cannot even take heart meds for the pain. The more I take the worse it gets.

I do know I have Fibro, Costo, angina, CAD, and Esopogeal reflux and I see my heart Dr. on the 24th. He'll want to get me back on my heart meds and I can't do them. I can't do pain meds, I can't do depression meds, you name it.

We raised my Methadone only to a 5 MG 3 times a day and I got the chest pain and it hasn't calmed down. The Prevacid doesn't calm it down either.

I have seen several Drs. and none of them know what is going on nor what to do for me. I think it's an ulcer in that area but they keep saying it can't be. It's around the heart area.

I do have other side effects also too and with depression it adds on. Actually the reason I am in the shape I am in is due to meds. From falling while on them.

I don't even ask for them anymore due to what I go through on them.

Thanks,
Ada