I have never told my story to any one because I'm embarrassed - wow, I cant spell ha ha - but I have had anxiety for many years now. But about 2 years ago I didn't really have anxiety, I had no clue what a panic attack was, even a true anxiety attack was. I was to my psych and she gave me CIPRALEX!!!!!! bad bad bad bad... I'm very very little and I was at that time also, she gave me a high dose I believe and I took it and about 3 hours later, I had every single symptom you get with that drug... i know just my damn luck.
Then all of a sudden this drug put me in a huge anxiety attack every 3 mins with severe nausea and lasting for about 3-4 minutes. This went on for about 4-5 hours!!!! I called 911. I never had attacks like that before so the ambulance came about 5 minutes after I called them. When they got there I was in such distress I couldn't walk any more. My legs completely gave out!!! It was brutal. They put me on oxygen and basically I waited for the doc all alone because I didn't want my husband around me.
Anyways when the doc came he told me he had never seen this and I have to wait about 24 hours before the drug is completely out of my system. So the attacks died down slowly throughout that day but even the next day I would have an anxiety attack every couple of hours. So days passed and I don't know what happened but I was sooo scared of this Cipralex drug getting into my body again that I would refuse to eat and barely drink anything for a couple months. I lost about 15 pounds.
My husband helped me a lot and everything I drank he would have to, so I would know that there was no Cipralex in anything. Over time I was able to drink and eat all by myself again, which is good. More time passed and I got completely over it but it was so damn traumatizing to me that to this day every so often I think there may be drugs in my food or whatever else. I don't have mental illness besides anxiety which I have overcome so much and I believe I have done so much work on myself. I am almost cured but I'm wondering would that be considered pts? If so will I ever get over the whole drug thing??? I'm not like that now but every so often I have a weird thought like that..
anyways hope anyone can help
Then all of a sudden this drug put me in a huge anxiety attack every 3 mins with severe nausea and lasting for about 3-4 minutes. This went on for about 4-5 hours!!!! I called 911. I never had attacks like that before so the ambulance came about 5 minutes after I called them. When they got there I was in such distress I couldn't walk any more. My legs completely gave out!!! It was brutal. They put me on oxygen and basically I waited for the doc all alone because I didn't want my husband around me.
Anyways when the doc came he told me he had never seen this and I have to wait about 24 hours before the drug is completely out of my system. So the attacks died down slowly throughout that day but even the next day I would have an anxiety attack every couple of hours. So days passed and I don't know what happened but I was sooo scared of this Cipralex drug getting into my body again that I would refuse to eat and barely drink anything for a couple months. I lost about 15 pounds.
My husband helped me a lot and everything I drank he would have to, so I would know that there was no Cipralex in anything. Over time I was able to drink and eat all by myself again, which is good. More time passed and I got completely over it but it was so damn traumatizing to me that to this day every so often I think there may be drugs in my food or whatever else. I don't have mental illness besides anxiety which I have overcome so much and I believe I have done so much work on myself. I am almost cured but I'm wondering would that be considered pts? If so will I ever get over the whole drug thing??? I'm not like that now but every so often I have a weird thought like that..
anyways hope anyone can help
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