This is RUINING MY LIFE!
I am 47yo, male. took Prozac and zoloft in past for depression/anxiety. Now on Multaq for AFIB so I cant take those, but take Lamictal instead.
I'm taking Lamictal 75mg for anxiety, and also take Klonpin(clonazepam) as needed. I've had panic disorder for years, but haven't had a panic attack in awhile. But I keep having these damn anxiety episodes. They happen anywhere. Once I had a severe anxiety episode in my grocery store. Actually several episodes, and barely got out of there without passing out on the ground.
Now at home, I was reclined back on my recliner, watching TV or using my laptop. And I'll have an extreme anxiety episode come on. Sometimes I shake very badly. Other times it feels like it will go into a Panic attack, but I try to remain calm so it doesn't. Another time it happened after I was finished talking to my mom at night. I was on my bed getting ready to sleep, and I got major anxiety attack.
I had a BRAIN MRI in 2011, that showed some "There are numerous nonspecific punctate T2 hyperintensities
within the white matter that are advanced for the patient's age."
My doctor never really said much about it at the time. So I asked my current doctor, and he agreed to do another MRI this year. But I'm not sure if it will be of any benefit. I've gone to a spinal doctor, and they said one of my discs is a little compressed, but they didnt think it was causing anxiety.
But it is very peculiar that depending on how I sit in a chair or in a recliner, it will aggravate the anxiety.
Should I maybe go to the Mayo clinic?
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