Not sure if Buspirone is making me numb
Hello!
I'll keep this as short as possible..
I have a medical history of anxiety and depression, asthma, under active thyroid, bulimia, OCD traits and fibromyalgia.
I'm a 40 year old female.
I have been on every antidepressant available in the UK other than mitarzapine (sp?) as I worry about the weight gain.
I found venlafaxine the best for me but it kind of made me a bit hyper - which I think would actually be nice at the moment.. I will get to that in a moment.
I have basically switched each time due to increased binging.
I lost weight on that to begin with but then had huge hunger and binge eating so switched again. I was on 150mg
I have been on quetiapine which caused me to have severe panic attacks.
Propranolol for years which helped anxiety and a nervous tremor - they won't give this to me now due to having asthma... I've had asthma since a child but I think the regulations have changed.
Diazepam - this is the best thing for my anxiety..even 2mg once a day and I feel so much better in general but they won't prescribe this longer than a few days at a time.
Amitriptyline which made me feel really anxious and weird.
Pregabalin which made me feel amazing on 25mg twice a day for about 3 days and then it seemed to stop and I tried to increase but noticed I was swelling up and getting puffy so stopped.
I am currently on sertraline - was 200mg but noticed increased tremor when doing nothing at all and increased anxiety..went down to 150 then 100 now up to 150 again.
I've also started 5mg Buspirone once a day - increased to twice a day.. felt like it was helping but now I feel completely numb, really down and irritable, disassociating and generally don't seem to care about anything.
I also was prescribed promethazine 10mg upto 3x a day... If I take one at bedtime it knocks me out but the next day I feel really crappy and tired.
I'm not sure if it's the Buspirone causing my symptoms at the moment and if I should stop...the promethazine.. or the sertraline.
I wish I could just not take anything and get it all out of my system and start from scratch but I can't.
So I wanted to find out if anyone else had similar experiences, any recommendations etc.
Thank you