Have mixed feelings about taking ADs but if they help me w my emotional roller coaster then I am okay w taking them temporarily.
Just be sure to give them at least a month to work. You should start feeling a difference in as little as a week, but your body has to get adjusted before they take full effect and that can take a month. Many people take them a week and give up on them because they think they're not working.
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The anxiety meds make me feel "loopy" like I've had a couple glasses of wine, so I'll have to be careful & selective about when/if I take these.
Try reducing the dose. I took one tablet and it made me feel loopy like you described. The next time I took half a tab and it was better, but I was still a bit dizzy/ loopy. The next time I took 1/4 tab and it killed the anxiety with no side effects. So in my case they WAY overprescribed what I really needed.
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DO any of you go to a support group?
I really wanted to, but looked around and couldn't find one that was centered around what I was going through.
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How are you all making new friends (meet-ups, etc?)?
I had better luck reaching out to old friends, I was surprised at how quickly we were able to rekindle friendships that had been dead for years.
