Board index › General Discussion › General Autism Discussion

Weird Anxiety Issues Lately?

Page 1 of 1 [ 5 posts ] 

Previous topic | Next topic

Thebigrage
Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl

User avatar

Joined: 14 Nov 2010
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Posts: 160

02 May 2011, 9:38 pm

I have had AS my entire life and have known about it, and have been on medication for it. I recently ran out of my meds due to the fact that my new Health Insurance is taking FOREVER to go into effect, and until it does it would cost $120 and I don't have that much neither do my parents. Now I have only been off for like 1 day and yet I have had some weird anxiety issues lately. For example my head has started to twitch uncontrolably, which it has never done before, and I have felt dizzy pretty much all the time with frequent random dizzy spells, and anxiety attacks, I think it may have something to do with being off my medication, but anyway has anyone else had weird issues lately with anxiety?



Chronos
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 22 Apr 2010
Age: 45
Gender: Female
Posts: 8,698

02 May 2011, 9:41 pm

Thebigrage wrote:
I have had AS my entire life and have known about it, and have been on medication for it. I recently ran out of my meds due to the fact that my new Health Insurance is taking FOREVER to go into effect, and until it does it would cost $120 and I don't have that much neither do my parents. Now I have only been off for like 1 day and yet I have had some weird anxiety issues lately. For example my head has started to twitch uncontrolably, which it has never done before, and I have felt dizzy pretty much all the time with frequent random dizzy spells, and anxiety attacks, I think it may have something to do with being off my medication, but anyway has anyone else had weird issues lately with anxiety?


Were you on Paxil?



Thebigrage
Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl

User avatar

Joined: 14 Nov 2010
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Posts: 160

02 May 2011, 9:43 pm

No actually I have been on Lexipro and my dosage just got uped to 20mg's last week.



IdahoRose
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 24 Feb 2007
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Posts: 19,801
Location: The Gem State

02 May 2011, 10:05 pm

I'm on Lexapro as well. Whenever I miss a dose of it, I experience the same symptoms (becoming lightheaded and my head twitching). I think those are just the withdrawal symptoms.



Thebigrage
Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl

User avatar

Joined: 14 Nov 2010
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Posts: 160

03 May 2011, 2:16 pm

Well glad that I am not alone with this then, this is my second day without it and it seemed to have just gotten worse as far as the twitching and dizzyness goes, luckily my mom can get me the medication today, unfortunatly the head twitching gave me a migrane so I had to stay home today.