Depression and Anxiety meds - HELP

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I guess I better start at the beginning; I have suffered with anxiety and depression since childhood.

6 weeks ago I was sent home from work, after a few weeks of feeling low, having burst into tears at work. I went to see my GP who prescribed Mirtazapine. However after 4 days of sleeping 20 hours a day, I went back to see my GP and asked for something that would make me less sleepy.

I was given Prozac and by day 7 my anxiety levels had risen so high that I ended up in hospital. I was given 15mg of valium immediately and prescribed 2mg x twice a day and 4mg at bedtime. The doc was reluctant, so was I to prescribe any other antidepressants because of my severe reaction to the Prozac.

Initially the valium did help and but the depression was still there and after weeks it got to the stage where I was having very distressing suicidal thoughts (I have no intention of carrying them out).

I returned to my GP once more and have been put on 35.7mg of Venlafaxine twice a day, 4mg of Valium 3 times a day and 7.5mg of zoplicone at night.

The first few days I felt very sick and drowsy but after about 8 days I did start to feel a little better. My GP has advised me to cut down on the valium so yesterday I only took 2mg at lunch time inside of 4mg. I went to bed with a slight headache and a pain in my chest.

This morning I feel sick, quite depressed again, anxious and my suicidal thoughts have returned (although again I have no intention of doing anything about them).

I have an appointment for CBT and counselling etc. but that isn’t until the end of the month.

I feel so messed up. Is it all the drugs I've been on that is making me feel this way? Is it valium withdrawal or am I just having a bad day?

Any help, support or advice would be appreciated, especially if you have experience of being on one or all of the above

I do not have experience, I am not a doctor in any way shape or form.

But as I understand it, human biochem is a very subtle, very tricky, very complicated thing. It sounds like your doctor is doing the right thing in tinkering with the medication. That is the responsible way to practice medicine in this case.

Just offhand, maybe it's the most recent change of the decline in valium from 4mg to 2mg?

Keep talking with your doctor. Keep tinkering. And don't worry about being a high-maintenance patient. That's why he or she went to medical school, at least it is on his or her better days.

Good luck. And keep talking with us here.