New Here!! Need Help Anxiety Meds? Please! Posted: 03-02-04 01:16am
Hello. My husband and I have been ttc.
Not sure yet but believe I may be
pregnant. Thing is...I have been
diagnosed as having dissociative identity
disorder, better known as multiple
personalities. I have depression and bad
anxiety, goes with the teritory I suppose.
Have been taking prozac and klonopin.
Not sure if the meds are safe. I have
heard that prozac is safe during
pregnancy.
My psyciatrist told me that klonopin
should be fine but might not want to take
it in first trimester? My family doc
says he wouldnt put me on anything during
pregnancy.
The internet is conflicting on anxiety
pills during pregnancy. Im confused.
Hoping someone here has some information
please!!! Klonopin has been the only
thing that has eased things for me.
Almost my own personal miracle. Yet, I
may not be able to continue taking it?
does
anyone have any idea? Or if any anxiety
med is safe? Hoping to know about
klonopin but I just dont know if I can do
this without the meds. I stopped taking
them and then started truly freaking out
to the point that I was afraid I would end
up in a mental ward by the end of the
week. So I started taking them again.
Please>> is you have info....Would
appreciate that soooo much.
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qt3
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 264
Posted: 03-05-04 02:03am
Look into cognitive behavioral therapy
(cbt). It enabled me to get off of all
meds and feel better than ever :d
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Haley
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 122
Posted: 03-05-04 02:35am
I'm just over halfway through my cbt group
(7th week of 12). We meet once a week and
we are using the book by sam obitz as our
course guide. I like it it because it is
a short book and all the chapters in it
are short. I'm still learning to use the
tea form and it already helps a lot. We
have several people in our group who
suffer from different forms of health
anxiety as well as people suffering from
depression, sad, ptsd and panic (which is
what i'm there for). It's too early to
tell if it will cure us but we are all
making progress and begining to believe in
cbt. I'll let you know how it turns out
but it's definitely worth trying
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qt3
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 264
Posted: 03-08-04 15:26pm
Excellent advice haley
you guys are using my favorite
introductory book on cbt!
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purple333
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 1420 Location: Sydney
Posted: 03-14-04 00:17am
Sage,
aside from talkiing to your dr i'd go to a
search engine (yahoo or google) &
check out the side effects of both meds
(not just re pregnancy but also breast
feeding (assuming you want to do that)
& looking after a child, also re
actually being able to fall pregnant while
on them & chances of side effects on
foetus if you don't go off them well
before falling!!
I'd also check out cbt, but also natural
treatments for your disorder (i don't know
of any - but that's what search engines
& naturopaths, homeopaths, etc are
for!!).
does
anyone have any idea? Or if any anxiety
med is safe? Hoping to know about
klonopin but I just dont know if I can do
this without the meds. I stopped taking
them and then started truly freaking out
to the point that I was afraid I would end
up in a mental ward by the end of the
week. So I started taking them again.
Please>> is you have info....Would
appreciate that soooo much.
