Posted by oldhand on November 16, 2002, at 18:11:05
In reply to Alcohol substitute - what's best?, posted by hok on November 16, 2002, at 12:09:38
(I am not proud to say) I have been using alcohol for years. Think it started as social and went from there to self-medicating for depression. After seven years of treatment for depression with practically every medication known to mankind I begin to think that the failure of the meds is due to my continued use of the alcohol over the course of treatment. A recent trial of Effexor proved so bad I had to be weaned off but during that time I did not feel at all like drinking. Whether this was due to the psychotropic action of the drug or due to the fact that it made me feel so crappy, not eating, anxious, electric, itchy, sleepless, headachey, etc., I do not know.
I have been weaning off of Effexor (withdrawal worse than heroin) and on Lexapro now for five days. Don't feel much like drinking but I would say to you to use the product that is least addictive to you. If that is alcohol for your anxiety, so be it. If it is one of the drugs, so be it. And well, as always talk to ur doc.
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