Morning anxiety depression?

How do you overcome morning anxiety? I have been on meds for 5 years ( effexor xr 75mg) and never suffered from morning anxiety until recently. They upped my meds to 150mg, and by day 4 was climbing the walls..so I was switched to pristiq and am about to take my second dose. They also prescribed xanax to help with the anxiety. Problem is, the xanax apparently isn’t a high enough dose and doesn’t help. I feel better around 5pm, almost back to normal. Anyone else suffer from this? What do you do to help? I take my meds, I talk positive to myself before I go to bed and take a long hot relaxing bath….still doesn’t help. I wake up around 530 am and can’t go back to sleep.

I’ll break it down into 2 parts and it’s kinda up to you to discuss with your doctor what to do.

1) Xanax: I’m not a fan of this drug, even though it has the fastest onset, it has the highest addicting potential. It goes in and out of your body in a matter of 2 hours and as soon as it leaves your body you have rebound anxiety therefore you are forced to take another one. Eventually you will need to take higher doses to achieve the same effect. Xanax is great short term IF you can control it.

2) Venlafaxine (Effexor) /Desvenlafaxine (Pristiq) Even though this drug is an anti depressant, it should be more appropriately called a mood stabilizer. The drugs act as an activator, so at first you will feel more anxious when you start it but in time it will stabilize your anxiety (about 6 weeks). Also, these drugs your doctor prescribed you are pretty strong compared to SSRI’s (Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac). Also, if the dose is too low, it won’t do anything but if it’s too high you get a condition known as serotonin syndrome which pretty much have the same symptoms as anxiety so it’s up to you and your psychiatrist to distinguish between serotonin syndrome and the actual medical condition.

Couple questions
1) Why did your doctor increase the dose of the effexor?
2) At what time during the day did u take these meds?

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