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It’s prescription-only, and apparently, it hits way harder than Sanval. I haven’t actually tried it myself, but a friend was telling me all about it. They say you use it before surgery or right before anesthesia, but the catch is that if you start relying on it too much, it just stops working. I’m honestly thinking about reaching out to Dr. Zan, but if this stuff is basically the same thing as Sanval, I’m worried. If I don't knock it back immediately while tucked into bed, I'll be tossing and turning all night long.☕

Robin Gonzalez3 said:Wait, are you sure it isn't mania kicking in instead of anxiety...? That actually happens quite a bit with FedEx since it's such a heavy-duty antidepressant.

Honestly, anything is possible. I've been on it for a while now and it usually works well for me, but there are those days where I forget a dose and—boom—it hits me like I'm on speed. My pupils get huge, my body feels like it's overheating, just pure euphoria... then when it wears off, I'm absolutely wiped out. I used to be able to crash right after that, but only if I had some Ambien to help.☕Like last night and earlier this morning, I could barely sleep, and when I did, the dreams were just totally wild.🙄

Has anyone here ever tried or currently using this specific medication? It’s part of that particular class of antidepressants that also works as an anti-anxiety and pain reliever. I know it’s used in anesthesia settings too, sometimes even before surgery. I’ve heard from people that a lot of folks use it just to chill out or help with sleep, usually taking it at night. I’m planning to bring it up with my psychiatrist during my next check-up to see what they think. Right now, I’m on FedEx, which is alright for the most part, but my anxiety seems to have spiked lately. Plus, my sleep is a mess—it takes forever to actually drift off, and honestly, it’s driving me a little crazy😠I'm really looking forward to my appointment so I can finally dive into some of the stuff that's been weighing on me☕

Kenneth Scott41 said:It’s genuinely good to hear that Seroquel is making a difference for someone. You’re on a pretty high dose, I suppose, but then again... the most important thing is that you're feeling better. Personally, I take 100mg of Seroquel, which seems to be just about right for me—not too little, but not overwhelming either. 😉
For me, this medication has been incredibly helpful, and I truly believe it's one of the most effective antipsychotics out there. It's hard to imagine anything better.

So, what are you taking the Seroquel for? Is it just for insomnia or something else? Personally, I try to stay away from antipsychotics if I can help it. A friend once gave me some Prozac to help when I couldn't sleep—she promised I'd sleep like a baby, and honestly, it worked.🙂

mistycrane19 said:Exactly. The real issue is that these "magic" pills work a little too well to resist... at least for me. Honestly, as I get older, I've mastered the art of escaping to another reality in my head while staying physically present. I just wish I didn't need a pill to do it.😁

I would give anything to not need meds for depression, anxiety, panic attacks, or those random bouts of insomnia. Just to not need them at all. To be able to handle everything on my own... but right now, it's just not happening, and honestly, it makes me so incredibly frustrated.🙂

mistycrane19 said:Look, I never even wanted to touch Xanax. A close friend of mine used to take them and kept saying how "great" they were, and how you always just want one more. 😬
-Since I’m genetically prone to addiction, I'm terrified of how that would end up playing out..

-Coming off Oxazepam was pure misery. It required hospitalization, and honestly, I was praying for death. It was just too much. Every time I think back to 😢

It’s actually wild that you managed to get such a tiny amount of Paxil. There was a stretch where I was popping them like Tic Tacs, but now my psychiatrist has switched me over to Ativan or Xanax. Honestly, most of those benzos feel like a trap, especially if you're like me and have that tendency to get hooked.

mistycrane19 said:I’ve been sipping on 15mg of Praxiten for a few years now. It was my replacement for Apaurin—which I was miserably addicted to before seeking professional help to detox... though my psychiatrist told me this struggle was inevitable. She was right. I’ve been through seven different circles of hell with that experience... and then came the Praxiten. God 😠
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It started classically: mornings and evenings... then eventually afternoons when needed, then mid-shift doses... until I managed to push myself up to 4 pills a day. That’s a hell of a lot. I was either constantly nodding off or just straight-up sleeping...

So, relatively recently, I decided to take matters into my own hands and start tapering off "therapy." Dropping from 4 to 3 was a massive leap. For about three weeks, I felt the void left by that one missing pill, but I pushed through... then I dropped to 2. I felt that one, too. The usual suspects: headaches, lethargy, irritability... by noon I hate myself, and by the afternoon I hate the rest of the world. That dragged on for another 3-4 weeks...

-Then I summoned the strength to move down to 1.5... basically half a Praxiten in the morning, half in the afternoon, and half at night... and even that hit me pretty hard.

And just a week ago, I moved down to 1 mg of Praxiten... half in the morning and half at night... and this is fucking brutal. My head feels like it's exploding, my arms feel heavy, and I can feel every single bone in my body—and I am not exaggerating. Whether there's sleep or not, if there is, the nightmares are so vivid I can't tell if I'm dreaming or awake... plus the excessive sweating... it’s a total nightmare on the N100 level.

Basically, I also cut out Cipralex, which I actually liked, reducing that therapy by 50% as well. I’m doing all of this on my own without my psychiatrist knowing... though it wouldn't really matter if she did, since I’m stuck at home 808 miles... :/

The night before last, a brutal crisis hit me. I ended up taking half a Praxiten, which wasn't the plan, but I just couldn't take it anymore...

It’s not exactly the smartest move to stop meds on your own without talking to your psychiatrist, especially with antidepressants, because those symptoms can come roaring back even harder. It's great that you managed to get down to half a Praxiten, but the hardest part is usually going from that half to nothing. ☕

Honestly, if you can, just walk away from someone who doesn't respect you. It’s like when you realize a roommate isn't pulling their weight—you're stuck doing all the cleaning while they just lounge around waiting for you to fix everything. If they're manipulating you and acting lazy, staying in a marriage like that is just a downward spiral. People always say, "Oh, they'll change," but in my experience, they don't. They usually just get worse, or at least they hit a ceiling where they can't possibly sink any lower than they already have.

Larry Lewis said:I used to be absolutely reckless—just drowning everything in whatever was within reach, whether it was booze or weed... honestly, looking back, I’m just incredibly lucky I didn't end up in a ditch or worse, but I've finally come to my senses. It was all just a desperate attempt to escape reality, I suppose.

Yeah, I've been there a few times myself. It was just how my crowd lived, always partying, you know? Thankfully, I never had any major issues, thank God, but this friend of mine... she’s been acting like this constantly lately. It's probably the same thing, just trying to escape her own life, and unfortunately, she actually managed to do it.

Eric Jackson11 said:Oh boy, let's not go scaring everyone with all this talk about choking and clinical death.

I really wasn't trying to freak anyone out, honestly. I was just sharing what happened with a dear friend of mine who passed away—she used to take all her pills at once, and it ended badly. There’s a massive difference between following your doctor's orders and taking your meds exactly as prescribed versus, you know, just swallowing every single pill you can get your hands on. Correct me if I've got that wrong.

Kenneth Scott41 said:heavy doses of Seroquel😁

Honestly, so many people who have messed around with antipsychotics say it’s a total nightmare. A buddy of mine was telling me about this time he and another friend took some Haldol; they were riding the subway when the train suddenly jerked to a stop. They were both holding onto the overhead rails, and once the brakes hit, they just couldn't let go—their arms stayed stuck up there, completely locked in place.😲 It was terrifying, honestly, they couldn't believe what was happening to their own bodies. And then there was this close friend of mine—we were really tight—who passed away a few months ago. She was on all sorts of meds, antidepressants and a whole cocktail of other pills, and then she started taking Zyprexa and Lexapro... I think she mentioned Haldol too. It happened while she was having lunch; she just started choking. The paramedics rushed her to the ER, and she ended up being clinically dead for five minutes at the hospital before falling into a coma. She passed away right on Christmas.😢 I miss her so much, it's just awful.

Larry Lewis said:I haven't cycled through a massive variety of sedatives—my patience for trial and error is frankly quite low—but I have to say, Xanax was definitely the gold standard for me.

For me, Xanax and Helix work pretty well too—they kick in fast when the anxiety or panic attacks start hitting, helping me chill out and actually boosting my mood a bit. It’s funny, because I tried Misar (which is basically the same formula but made by Johnson & Johnson), and it worked great for the first two days, but then it started making me feel all aggressive and restless, which was super weird. Diazepam just hits for a second and then disappears; after about an hour, it feels like I just drank a glass of water, totally useless. But Lorsilan? That’s the winner for me. It really quietens my mind and helps me relax. My doctor prescribed it three times a day, but I usually just take it whenever I actually need it.

😁Which anxiolytics actually work for you guys? I'm curious what you're currently taking and which ones were just a total letdown for you🤷

Larry Lewis said:So, does anyone here actually have first-hand experience dealing with Lorasil?

I’m on Lorsilan right now, and honestly, out of all the benzos I've messed with, this one does the best job at just... chilling me out and taking the edge off. But, you know, it’s still a benzo, so it’s kind of a bit of a decoy, just like the rest of them.😢 My psychiatrist actually put me on Helix for the time being, but he did mention that if that doesn't sit right with me, I should probably switch back over to Lorsilan.

Kenneth Scott41 said:I feel like I’m hitting a brick wall with my doctors lately. It’s incredibly frustrating because they just keep prescribing these standard acetaminophen or tramadol pills for my pain, and honestly, I don't feel a single thing from them. 🙂 The reality is that I’m on methadone every day—which is morphine-based—so we’re talking about a completely different tier of potency compared to basic tramadol. It’s just simple logic, really; my system is calibrated to something much stronger, so these weaker options are practically placebo at this point. If I actually want some relief, I need something like morphine tablets—specifically MST. But apparently, my doctors have this misguided idea that morphine is only for end-of-life care or extreme trauma, as if you only need it when someone is literally ripping your fingernails out. I’m not trying to be difficult, but I can't figure out if I'm just failing to communicate effectively, or if there's some underlying bias where they think certain people shouldn't have access to these types of medications. Who knows? 🙂 I wish I could just hand them one methadone pill and one tramadol pill side-by-side so they could witness the massive gap in efficacy for themselves. They probably wouldn't even feel the tramadol! 🙂

It reminds me of when my ex-boyfriend took a hit to the head; he got into a scrap with this guy who totally lost it when he saw us together 🤷 I know he ended up in the ER, and since he was there for about twenty different tests, they gave him morphine. He told me it felt amazing at the time 😍 As for me, I've taken pure codeine tablets a few times, and the feeling is almost identical to what happens in an ER, though I highly doubt your doctor is going to prescribe that to you on their own.

fadedbear92 said:Don't mess around here—Effexor is nothing like Wellbutrin!!!

Wellbutrin is bupropion and works on the norepinephrine and dopamine neurotransmitters...

Effexor is http://medicine-info.com/venlafaxine.html and acts on the serotonin neurotransmitter...

It’s almost like my smart GP doesn't have a clue, but whatever. I’m on Effexor now, and I’ve still got about half a bottle of Wellbutrin sitting in my bathroom cabinet from when I started it and then stopped. I'm going to give the Effexor a fair shot and stay consistent with it. Hopefully, it actually does the trick.☕

Timothy Wood38 said:Haha, what kind of psychiatrist is that? Seriously, find yourself a new one. 😁

See, my psychiatrist is actually fine, it’s just my GP who seemed to be hitting a bit of a breaking point. She went ahead and wrote me a prescription for Effexor—which is what I was on before my psych switched me over to Wellbutrin—and she’s trying to convince me they’re basically the same thing🙄 Which, I mean, Effexor works pretty well for me😁, and I was just in such a good mood that I didn't feel like getting into a whole debate with her. She's usually alright, she just catches me off guard sometimes.

Kenneth Scott41 said:After cycling through all those lighter antidepressants and even some of the heavier hitters like Effexor or Wellbutrin, I feel like I’ve somehow looped right back to square one. I honestly tried a mountain of different ADs, but none of them ever hit the mark quite like Effexor did. I suppose some people might think I'm just talking nonsense, but I really did give Cymbalta a fair shot, and it didn't do anything for me—I didn't feel a single thing 🤷
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If there's one thing I'm certain of, it's that after testing almost every option out there, I finally found my match, and that's Effexor! 🙂

Hey, redpilot37, if you're lurking here, just know that this Effexor is as vital to me as a steady supply of Hep C meds 😁 yeah, sure... as if anyone would believe that.
Because without it, life is just one long, exhausting stretch of misery.

So, my doctor wrote me a script for Effexor instead of Wellbutrin, claiming they were basically the same thing, just made by different companies. 😕 I mean, she clearly doesn't get it at all, because Effexor works on serotonin and norepinephrine, while the other one hits norepinephrine and dopamine. They are two completely different beasts; she's totally lost it. 😂 Anyway, I finally took a dose after a long break and now my jaw is twitching a bit, my pupils are dilated, and I feel all restless... kind of like how Kenneth Scott41 felt on Cymbalta. 🤷

fadedbear92 said:You should definitely talk to the doctor who prescribed this—just lay everything out for them and tell them exactly what you've been going through.

My psychiatrist actually gave me one 200mg pill to take before bed to act as a mood stabilizer. I’m planning on telling them absolutely everything at my next check-up, but that isn't for another month. I think I'll head over to see my primary care doctor tomorrow instead and just ask. I'm genuinely curious what they'll say—when they saw the psych med on the list, they just kind of commented that Tegretol is a solid choice. Honestly, though, maybe it wasn't even the Tegretol causing issues. All I know is that I won't be forgetting that night anytime soon, or that pure terror I felt.😢

fadedbear92 said:Personally, I handled it just fine—it really goes to show how much everyone reacts differently to these things, doesn't it?

Honestly, the weirdest part for me was that it actually helped me relax during that first night, and I finally got some decent sleep. But then, every single night after that, things just got weirder. Like, the dreams were absolutely nightmare fuel. And that one night when I skipped my dose? Ugh, just awful. 😲 Now I’m honestly sitting here wondering if I should even bother staying on it or not.🙂