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[JJ]

Hello nelliedee your story sounds familiar, the anxiety in menopause is or can be really awful. This site has been a great help to me. Just knowing your not alone is so cathartic , there's always someone whose felt the same. It WILL pass x incidentally I had post natal depression after my second child 27 years ago, didn't take any meds but it took a good year till I felt like myself again. I was then fine - until peri menopause which really kicked in last year - I'm 49.

[nelliedee]

Thanks for your welcomes and funny enough I had read the 3 2 1 excersise 2 nights ago and have been having a go at it and it is good.

[paisley]

Hi nellidee and a very warm welcome from me and I am so glad you have found your way here. You will realize you are not going mad cos everyone on here understands. Strange what you say about ADs cos I took them when I had pnd and they made me worse. I have just come of anafranil 6 weeks ago and I am still really feeling the withdrawal effects. I have just read that it can take up to 8 weeks to totally be off them , didn't realize it took that long. They do have a profound effect on your brain.
AnneB and horsie how are you? hope a bit better. Haven't been on for a few days as felt awful and as I said above convinced it is still ADs in my system.

[mac]

Hi Ladies and Welcome Nellidee.  I am so glad that you found some comfort and reassurance in this thread and that you are very much NOT alone in these horrible feelings.  Anxiety for me is throughly the worst symptom of memo. 
I survived my train journey (just) and the flights.  It wasn't helped by the fact that the the first flight was delayed by 2.5 hours I didn't think I would make it on the flight.  Thank god for propranalol and rescue remedy.  I stayed with my brother so i didn't have to be on my own in the family home.
The days have got gradually better but I think I have suffered all the side effects of the AD's   can anyone tell me how long it usually takes for AD's to have complete effect, or am I expecting to much and will I always have this underlying anxiety where i question everything i do?   I am still taking the propanalol but not as much as I was.

Hugs to everyone

Mac

[CLKD]

Why have you lessened the Propranalol when you are in a stressful situation?

[JJ]

Hello mac , I take anti depressants, took quite a few months for me to feel the benefits as at the beginning they seem to make your anxiety  worse. I persevered and I have found that they have basically enabled me to do the things I want to do , not all of the time but most of the time. I haven't found them to be a cure all they've just slowly helped ease the anxiety, I've been on them about a year now. I still get hot flushes but I can cope with them, I don't think I'd worry about taking the beta blocker I'd use them whenever I felt I needed them if I where you, why suffer?

You've done really well with all the travelling you've just done  so well done x

[CLKD]

Propranalol needs to be taken regularly to have benefit ........ keeping the drug in the system to give support when we require it. Plus Rescue Rememdy 

[paisley]

mac, well done on all your journey's, you did amazingly well and you should be so  pleased you did it as it is not easy.
Glad you are feeling better and I hope that continues to improve, I have had awful times but convinced it is still coming off ADs  as you have had side effects going on them I have had the opposite coming off.
Take care

[mac]

HI CKLD an JJ

This is going to sound so daft but I'm scared of them   I've had so many of the side effects from the AD's that I think I'm paranoid about what's causing what.

I suppose i was expecting the AD's to be a cure for all because i was so desperate to feel better.  I know your right about the propanalol I'll keep taking them.  It sometimes feels like I've lost me and become this stranger that has become dependant on pills to make me feel like me.  If that makes sense.  I know we all need help now and again but it's like I'm grieving for the old me.

Great to be back on here.

Mac

[JJ]

Mac I'm not the old me, but I'm still in menopause, I'm confident that eventually this will pass. Be patient with the anti depressants I'm not sure how long you've been on them but with me, they took time, and the improvement is subtle but there is improvement. Do you take hrt, I'd be happy to give that a go if there weren't so many family members with breast cancer, (my doc said i could give it a go anyway, but thats plan b for me, justnin case)Maybe if you have no reasons not to,hrt would help you. (apologies if ive missed a posting re hrt)

I'm now up to 4 months period free which is the longest I've gone so at the mo I'm wondering if I've had my last period, probably not 

[mac]

Hi Paisley

I really hope you begin to feel better soon.  If the AD's work I can put up with the side effects because hopefully they will ease of.

JJ
I stopped HRT in May, i had only been on it 3 months. I had convinced myself it was causing a lot of my problems but will give the AD's a few months and then review whether the HRT would be a better option.

Thanks

Mac

[JJ]

I think it's trial and error, trying to find what combinations work best for you. At least we have this web site, and it's free  hope you get a good nights sleep .

[paisley]

mac  =the side effects will ease of as your body gets more used to them. Just look at how far you have come, getting on that flight was a major achievement when you consider how you had felt.
I got stuck at another 4 year old birthday party on Saturday. In U.K you drop them off then leave but not here I did not feel like socializing at all but was there for 5 hours making polite conversation. Should have spoke about menopause might have got rid of then quickly.

[nelliedee]

Thanks for the welcome Mac and well done for completing your journey. My doc advised me to take the Propanolol 3 times a day and written across the front in large letters is '' DO NOT STOP TAKING THIS MEDICINE WITHOUT CONSULTING YOUR DOCTOR'' and I have been paranoid about missing a dose and assumed it was because it slows the heart rate.  I have found it strange that others have been advised to take it as and when !!!
Nelliedee x 

[mac]

Hi Nellidee

I think there's 2 schools of thought about the propanalol.  It is used for some many things that i think it depends what your taking it for, whether its continous or ad hoc.  How you feeling now, has the anxiety got better.  I was on 40mg 3 times a day and it was a life saver along with this forum

Paisley, when we lived in abroad the birthday parties were the same as yours but thankfully not all of them, so I can understand how your feeling.  Its great your son is making friends one less worry for you.  I just have to worry about the family holiday that we're supposed to go on on the 2nd July and the 3.5 hour flight

Mac