When I was 10 I was diagnosed with anxiety and put on Prozac. It helped me, until I was diagnosed with depression at 15. It wasn't helping enough with depression so my Dr. wanted to try something new. Then came a string of SSRIs that didn't seem to help me very much. I got on Lexapro and wellbutrin and found relief in that combo for a good 10 years. My depression then seemed to get worse again so my new Dr. tried me on viibryd with wellbutrin. That worked well for a few years, until last year I suddenly got anxiety worse than I've ever had in my life. Crazy nausea to the point of throwing up sometimes, racing thoughts, constantly thinking I was going to die. 



Now I'm in this loop of trying new meds, waiting, changing them, waiting, and nothing seems to work. She took me off viibryd and wellbutrin and put me on pristiq. That made me feel absolutely CRAZY! My anxiety went through the roof and I felt like I was losing my mind. She moved me to celexa which seemed to help at first, but it wasn't helping enough. We increased it and my anxiety got really terrible again. I hung in for weeks hoping it would pass but it didn't. Now we decreased and I'm still feeling awful.



I just worry that I'll never find the right drug for me. How many can I go through? Are SSRIs really that different from each other that one could cause such trouble and another could possibly help? I have an appt with my psych next week but I'm just really feeling helpless. I've been in this cycle since May of changing medications. It's just constant waiting. Decreasing slowly and increasing the new one slowly, waiting to see how you feel, I never know if I'm waiting long enough or too long. I'm literally at a loss and I just need to know there's an end in sight. Can anyone share a success story after trying a lot of meds and finding something that worked?