Armyguy?

December 7, 2003

I had a bad night last night and most of today. I was having Panic

Attacks one after the other. I tried Medataing to calm myself down

but the waves of panic kept coming until I finely gave in and took

Xanax. I started with a .25 pill and after an hour had to take one

more. I have not had any Arimidex since Fri. and it was a quarter

of a pill. I don't think it is the Arimidex I now feel it is coming

off the Xanax this is the 3rd. time that I have stopped taking Xamax

but after weaning my self off. I have gone form a .5 mg. pill at

night to a .25 mg. at bedtime then a half of the .25 for a week

then I stop. Now after 4 days I have no problem the the fifth night

I have what feels like a panic attack but not the tight chest or

trouble breathing. I think it is with draw symptons. Last Wed.

morning I had trouble on the fifth night and posted that I felt it

was the Arimidex I took Xanax that day and then stopped on Thur. now

this morning is the fifth day off and it started at 6am this morning

and lasted until 2pm. I am not going to take Arimidex until I get

the blood test back hopefully tomorrow. If my E2 is not to low then

I am going to wait until I get my E2 down and am on a reg. schedule

with the Arimidex. Then I am going to work on getting off the Xanax

maybe I need to take a pill every other day for a week before

stopping. It is so hard too tell what is going on. But in the past

if I did not take the Xanax at bed time I would have trouble that

night. At least I am lasting 5 days. But this is knocking the crap

out of me.

Phil

December 8, 2003

I agree that you should get on a system and stick to it, get blood

test using the system. The more you change what you are doing, the

less likely you will find treatment that will help you feel

consistently good. Arimidex is powerful, and it may have some side

effects, I do find it seems to make me very tired when I take too

much. But at a quarter pill a day you should be fine in my opinion.

Like you said, it is hard to figure out when you have a few problems

happening at once, so you shouldn't jump to conclusions about the

effects of hormone related drugs and vitamins until you give them a

fair shot. It is hard to say how much is the placebo effect (ie.

psychological rather than physiological responses), until you give