20 MG of Celexa and sometimes with 1 mg Xanax is helping! Nervous system / anxiety issue
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20 MG of Celexa and sometimes with 1 mg Xanax is helping! Nervous system / anxiety issue I'm not sure if you all can see my previous messages regarding stuttering or not, if not, long story short I've done countless things over the 30+ years for my stutter without success. I tried so many things that at age 35 I was approved for disability w/o a lawyer etc (but thankfully got off of it as I finally landed a job that lasted a few years until covid). Anyway - 2-3 months ago I tried Risperidone, a dopamine blocker that other stutters have tried for 20 or so years, of course some with great success, and others not so much. My first 24-48 hours on it, I thought hey! this is great.. but it quickly went down hill and my speech for the next 2-3 weeks was by far the worst it's ever been. So I got off that. Over the last 7-8 years, I've strongly have believed for ME, my stutter is because of some sort of nervous system / anxiety issue, however the various things I've tried before hasn't worked for the long-run (usually past 1-3 weeks). Anyway, it'll be 4 weeks ago from tomorrow when I got on 20 MG Celexa every day and 1mg of Xanax (when needed). ​ Last night I hung out with a good friend I've known for 18 years that I haven't seen in about 16 months, at the end of the night he was like what happened to your speech?.. Before meeting up with him, it was the first time I ever tried Xanax with Celexa, just 1mg right before meeting up with him. I take the Celexa 20 mg in the morning and it was pretty darn fluent for 4-5 hours straight, close to 95-100%? Interesting note as to why I have hope w/ Celexa, is I'm able to order food, coffee when I'm NOT familiar with that person etc. Those blocks I've had, haven't been there since before Celexa (almost 4 weeks ago). I think the oddest thing is lately, in the last week or so, I'm starting to forget that I stutter. I'm leaving on a trip in 9 days and meeting up with someone that my speech has always been terrible with, and someone that I haven't met before.. So that'll be a huge test, I'll try both Celexa and Xanax for those 4 days straight. Since I absolutely believe it's a nervous system / anxiety issue. What are other natural things people do to help with their stutter and/or anxiety? While the Celexa has been great so far, if there's something naturally I can do that improves it even more, and/or hope one day I can stop taking the Celexa and be fluent, that'll be ideal. Any ideas? Once again, I've taken Celexa 20 mg every day for almost 4 weeks. I've been prescribed 1 mg of Xanax (when needed, I've only taken it one time).. and I'm not sure how much / if any this has helped, but I've been taking BioEmblem triple complex Magnesium ( malate + glycinate + citrate ) usually 4-5 days a week.. but I'd say the biggest improvement is because Celexa hands down. I might, might switch from Xanax (habit forming) to Gabapentin which is non-habit forming sometime in the future, just depends.