Social Anxiety help pleeeeaase!

Posted by Jasmine on September 4, 2004, at 13:08:20

Hi everyone!
I've been visiting this board for over a year now and I've posted a couple times, but usually just read everyone's advice. Anyway, I could really use some advice right now. This may be a fairly long post so I apologize in advance.
I was diagnosed with severe social anxiety 5 years ago and was immediately put on medication. Since that time, I have tried so many meds and therapies and even my pdoc is saying I have pretty much run out of options, which makes me feel pretty hopeless. I'm only 22 years old and have already pushed away all of my childhood friends and am too shy to make news ones, so I am basically friendless. I just wanted to see if anyone had any other suggestions about what I could take to help myself. Here is a list of what I've tried so far...
-Paxil (Worked the best for making me social, but also made me want to sleep all day and the sexual side effects were intolerable)
-CBT (worked for getting rid of panic attacks, but I still live with the constant anxiety)
-Xanax (worked well but not something I could use for mono-therapy)
-Celexa (didn't work at all)
-Ativan (made me feel depressed)
-Prozac (didn't do anything)
-Nardil (worked pretty well but I gained 18 lbs. in 3 months and that's too much for my 5'5" frame)
-Parnate (didn't work at all)
-Effexor (made me feel too "weird")
-Selegiline (made the anxiety worse and didn't help anything else)
-Ritalin + Klonopin (I'm taking this now, but it isn't making a noticable difference)
So if anyone has any advice of other meds or combinations I could try, I'm open to all advice. I'm suppsoed to call my pdoc later this week to update her so I'm hoping for some ideas to pass along to her. I hate to be picky, but I don't want to deal with sexual side effects or more than 10lbs of weight gain so maybe that limits my possibilities. There must be a combination out there that can work for this. I'll take any advice anyone is willing to give me, thank you all so much!
Jasmine @-->--

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Social Anxiety help pleeeeaase! Jasmine 9/4/04
Re: Social Anxiety help pleeeeaase! pseudonym 9/4/04
Re: Social Anxiety help pleeeeaase! King Vultan 9/5/04
Re: some possibilities » Jasmine Michael Bell 9/5/04
Thanx! I appreciate your responses :) (nm) Jasmine 9/6/04
Re: some possibilities steveb 9/6/04
Re: Social Anxiety help pleeeeaase! Philidor 9/7/04
Re: Social Anxiety help pleeeeaase! » Philidor mattw84 9/7/04
Re: Social Anxiety help pleeeeaase! » Philidor Jasmine 9/8/04
Re: Social Anxiety help pleeeeaase! Philidor 9/8/04
Re: Social Anxiety help: generic tips » Jasmine Philidor 9/9/04
Tianeptine for social phobia » Michael Bell btnd 9/10/04
how does tianeptine work? Franz 9/11/04
Tianeptine and other stuff - ALL SHOULD READ Michael Bell 9/13/04
Re: Tianeptine and other stuff - ALL SHOULD READ » Michael Bell mxrider 9/13/04
Michael Bell: Tianeptine and ... - ALL SHOULD READ btnd 9/19/04
Re: Michael Bell: Tianeptine and ... - ALL SHOULD READ » btnd Michael Bell 9/25/04
Re: Michael Bell: Tianeptine and ... - ALL SHOULD READ » Michael Bell jujube 9/26/04
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Re: some possibilities » steveb alesta 9/28/04
Re: Tianeptine and other stuff - ALL SHOULD READ » Michael Bell steveb 9/30/04
Re: some possibilities steveb 9/30/04
Re: some possibilities » steveb alesta 9/30/04
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