Anxiety is new to me in the last 4 years. I have had severe depression my whole life and then all of a sudden this horrible anxiety came out of the blue. It took me a year of begging my pdoc to get klonopin. I take .5mg in the morning and .5mg at night. It has totally knocked it out. the morning dose is not sedating for me. I am having some situational lately but not bad.
Unfortunately there isn't much out there that works. Sounds like Buspar isn't cutting it for you. The only thing that works in my view are the benzo's and they create a whole bunch of potential problems. I don't understand the klonopin for bedtime. You are taking ambien. Can't you take klonopin as needed during the day for situational and not at night. That is what I would do. Hard to recommend benzo's to someone so young but they haven't come up with anything else. Maybe there are a few things in the works based on new research.
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." -- Richard Feynman
Major Depressive Disorder
Anxiety Disorder with some paranoid delusions thrown in for fun.
Recovering Alcoholic and Addict
Possibly on low end of bi polar spectrum...trying to decide.
Male, 50
Fetzima 80mg
Lamictal 100mg
Remeron 30mg for sleep
Klonopin .5mg twice a day, cutting this back
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