What happens if you stop taking your anxiety medication?

Question

I suffer from anxiety...once of my symptoms is that I am nauseated a lot of the time. I take medication to keep me from vomiting all day, but lately I haven't even felt well enough to take my anxiety medication. For the past month, I've been taking it kind of regularly, but for the past 4 days I haven't been able to take it at all. What symtoms should I be on the look out for? I see my doc on the 31st, but wanted to know if there is anything I should be on the look out for in myself.

Answer 1

You can probably reduce the amount you are taking.
But, before you quit altogether, ask your doctor how safe it is to stop. Some medications cannot be stopped cold turkey because they throw your body chemistry off.
You should also be receiving therapy. Seek out a good neuro-therapist or cognitive therapist in your area.

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Answer 2

Stopping Anxiety Medication

Answer 3

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Answer 4

it isn't good to just suddenly quit taking any psychiatric drug.

But I don't think drugs help with anxiety much.
If you talk to your doctor they will just try another pill.

Best thing to do is this - in the hours before bed time try to relax - don't look at the computer or tv - try not to eat as much - exercise when you can - and then try to get good sleep for all the days before you see your doctor - record the amount of sleep you get every night - and then report the results to your doctr. Most anxiety problems are due to lack of sleep, possible nutritional deficiencies, and just plain stress. Also learn what you can about comedy and learn to cultivate a sense of humor so when things happen you aren't scared or anxious. It all depends on the problem, but if you aren't getting sleep - no pill is going to help you.

nausea - try ginger which is cheap and you can get it in many forms at your grocery store.
If that doesn't work then you have to go to a prescription.

you may end up not needing the medicine, but you have to work with your doctor I 'm not going to tell you to do anything outside of your medical care. But your doctor HAS to drug you if you aren't getting sleep. So that's the first step.

Also there's 2 other things that helped me sleep
1) lavender - don't eat it - just smell it - it calms your nerves so you can sleep - I smush the petals and the breath it in one time.
I usually fall asleep shortly afterwards.

2) melatonin - I cleared this with my doctor -y ou can get this at a health food store. I now sleep nightly with no sleep meds due to taking this and doing the lavender -

if you can get nightly sleep you may get rid of your anxiety.

prayer helps a lot too. - anything to help you de-stress.. like taking a deep breath.

hope this helps. just curious - how anxious have you been the past 4 days?

Answer 5

Don't ever take the sleeping pills route!!

1. They will damage your liver big time and you can get into serious health problems.

2. You will get hooked up on them and you won't be able to have a normal life any more if you don't take your pills everyday.

The sleeping pills industry is damaging our health by capitalizing on our ignorance, and by distracting people from effective and natural ways to deal with this problem. I had been taking prescription sleep medications [Ambien] for over 5 years. It stopped working and I simply took more. Still did not work. Nights were very difficult - medication put me to sleep but I would wake up after 2–3 hours with a strong sympathetic response (fast pulse, pounding heartbeat, wide awake alert). It was a very difficult cycle to break. I was really in bad shape due to lack of sleep.

After years of struggling I was able to cure my insomnia naturally and pretty fast. I followed the Sleep Tracks sleep optimization program, here is their official web -site if you want to take a look: http://www.insomniacure.net

Ohhh..and Good Luck!

Answer 6

If you are a natural person you should try cognitive behavioral therapy. It was the only thing that has helped me with my horrible health anxiety. Read here https://tr.im/EndPanicAttacks

Your thinking determines your quality of life. Your thinking is what causes you these feelings:

Anxious, fearful, stressed or depressed
Constantly worried, or angry about something that is happening in your life
Struggling to overcome obsessive and negative thoughts.

If you change your thinking, you will change your life. This is the basic idea behind CBT for anxiety. The Cognitive part is where you learn nee methods and ways to change your same old habits and thinking patterns. If you keep thinking and expecting the worst – You will continue to suffer.

Answer 7

I had a spat of nausea/vomiting from nerves and did not take my meds. I told my Dr. and he told me that most of the anti-anxiety benzoids (Valium, Xanax, Klonipin, etc) can be placed under the tongue to absorb. The stopping of the meds all together sends the body into a withdrawal effect which can cause that feeling of being 'ILL'. You may notice increased sweating, heart rate, fatigue, headache, loss of appetite, pretty much all the same symptoms of anxiety all over again. Some of those meds actually come in a disolving wafer form and the Dr. may change you over to that.

Answer 8

You can definitely have a "rebounding" of your anxiety. That means it can come back even worse than it was originally.

You really need to call the doctor's office and tell them about your symptoms. I'm sure they don't want you to wait till the 31st with the way you are feeling.
Why are you suffering? Call their office now.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Oh dear, it depends on what you've been taking. When I took Paxil, missing 1-2 days would make me sick. Dizzy, "brain zaps", crying, unable to think straight, my body all electrified and weird. I don't think it's a good idea to stop. I learned the hard way. If you run out, call your doctor right away.