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Suggest Remedy To Overcome Anxiety

I am experiencing a lot of anxiety. I have been awful bad about switching from one antidepressant to another. Couldn't begin to tell you how many different ones I have been on since the first of this year. I have trouble "calming" myself down. What could be wrong with me?
Mon, 15 Dec 2014
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Hello thanks for asking from HCM

You have been experiencing a lot of anxiety and you have switched multiple antidepressants and that didnt cause improvement. If in a patient of depression one medicine fails to produce relief then trail of other drug is started. If multiple trials fail then augmentation of antidepressants is done with other drugs like Lithium carbonate, lamotrigine, thyroxin etc. In more severe depression drugs like Venlafaxine, Duloxetine etc help in better response.
Also get your thyroid hormone and B12 levels checked to rule out any medicinal cause. This could be the reason for resistance.

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Suggest Remedy To Overcome Anxiety

Hello thanks for asking from HCM You have been experiencing a lot of anxiety and you have switched multiple antidepressants and that didnt cause improvement. If in a patient of depression one medicine fails to produce relief then trail of other drug is started. If multiple trials fail then augmentation of antidepressants is done with other drugs like Lithium carbonate, lamotrigine, thyroxin etc. In more severe depression drugs like Venlafaxine, Duloxetine etc help in better response. Also get your thyroid hormone and B12 levels checked to rule out any medicinal cause. This could be the reason for resistance. Thanks, hope this helps you.