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What seizure meds are also anti-anxiety?
Mon, 11/08/2010 - 20:33I don't know if I can take the extra anxiety from the lamictal for too much longer. I have to do so much and go to therapy to contain it. Otherwise my sense of awareness is so strong that I get adrenaline rushes from loud sounds or get nervous in a car ride. I have this constant neck tightness also from being nervous. I will talk to my Dr. soon to see if it's worth taking anymore because I also can't sleep without trazodone.
So what are my options for ant-anxiety anti-convulsants? I have JME or generalized ep.
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Re: What seizure meds are also anti-anxiety?
Submitted by Revelation 21.4 on Tue, 2010-11-09 - 11:57
Yeah, That would be a add on. I asked my doctor about klonopin actually to curb my anxiety and he said see how therapy goes and if that don't work we'll talk.
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away" - Rev 21:4
Yeah, That would be a add on. I asked my doctor about klonopin actually to curb my anxiety and he said see how therapy goes and if that don't work we'll talk.
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away" - Rev 21:4
Re: What seizure meds are also anti-anxiety?
Submitted by Revelation 21.4 on Thu, 2010-11-11 - 09:21
Wow, my thread totally got Hi-jacked! You can PM eachother people for off topic chat.
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away" - Rev 21:4
Wow, my thread totally got Hi-jacked! You can PM eachother people for off topic chat.
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away" - Rev 21:4
Re: What seizure meds are also anti-anxiety?
Submitted by phylisfjohnson on Tue, 2010-11-09 - 10:43
I use Klonopin as an anti-seizure, anti-anxiety med. But I think it's a "add on." Phylis Feiner Johnson www.epilepsytalk.com
I use Klonopin as an anti-seizure, anti-anxiety med. But I think it's a "add on." Phylis Feiner Johnson www.epilepsytalk.com