Profile for User: cimmaryn

I do not do well with medication, but because of the severity of the anxiety, I was desperate. My psychiatrist put me on generic buspar. It is cheap. Started with 7.5 mg twice a day, then 15 mg twice a day – which was fine while I was off work. However, it impacted my work (unmotivated, sleepy, sometimes dizzy), so I went back to 7.5 twice a day. It mostly keeps the anxiety at bay, though I am starting to experience some breakthrough anxiety. But it does help. My last treatment was the first week of April.

I do also have Xanax for if things get really bad – but for me, the Xanax (.05) makes my depression 10x worse for several days so I try not to take it (I am very sensitive to medication).

One of the selling points for tms is that it is supposed to change how the brain works, be cumulative, and permanent. Now I can only hope that might not be true (assuming tms has caused the anxiety – I have no way to know for sure, though it seems the most likely expkaination).