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Hi Jerry,

My doc has put me on lorazepam and remeran. I suffer from severe panic attacks and have many troubles with anxiety. I was surfing online today and found something called Anxietril or something like that. Anyhow, it said it worked the same as remeran but it's an herbal formula. I wonder if it would be better for me to take that. I currently take a combination of herbs and vitamins that help keep me on track. What's your opinion? Also, how do these medications work?

i take remeron.....it causes me to have extremely bizarre dreams. i'm not too fond of it and am working myself off of it. i couldn't tell that it really helped me. xoxoxo pat

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Hi Fayerody... that's not good. How long did you take it before the bad dreams started? I just started on remeron. I have panic and panic attacks very frequently. Any suggestions on what may work better? I think if I could get rid of the panic I could make progress faster.

[Butterfly_Faerie]

Ativan helped with anxiety, but I only took it when I needed it back then.

Remeron was hell. It worked for my depression and anxiety for about 8 months I believe I was on it.

I gained weight that caused my depression to be worse the side effects were horrible. I ate more, I slept more, I had trouble getting up, I was drowsy all the time. I would wake up freaking out from time to time sitting straight up in bed wondering if I took my pill or not before bed, that never happened with me before. Use to freak me out.

After a certain amount of time the meds stopped working for me, I went off of it and onto Effexor, and the withdrawals were terrible, I felt like I had to be in a dtox program.

However once it was completely out of my system my weight went down, and I was pretty much back to my original size.

Just didn't like being on it at all.