Stronger anxiety after more than a month on 50 mg of Fevarin
This is my first Reddit post, so sorry if it's horribly written.
So, I've been on Fevarin 50 mg for my anxiety and OCD, since around the 26th of March (around 60 days now). Going by the psychiatrist's instructions, I started with 1/4th for 4 days, then 1/2 for 6 days and finally 1 pill, or 50 mg, which is the dose that I'm on currently and have been on for about 50 days. The psychiatrist said that I can increase the dose further if necessary, however, for the longest time, I felt incredibly strong sleepiness/drowsiness, every day, most of the day (even before I started using 50 mg), so I put off increasing the dosage, since I couldn't really tell if it was generally helping or not. In fact, the drowsiness finally started going away only a week or two back and now, in terms of awareness and awakeness, I'd say I feel mostly fine, however... recently I've been getting, what I feel like is much stronger anxiety than before. For the time period, when I was feeling super sleepy and drowsy, I couldn't really feel much anxiety (which was nice), but now, it feels like it has returned with extra punch and it's quite worrying and bothersome to me. I fought with the tiredness for so long and now that that's finally gone, I have to deal with this anxiety that almost feels like it's stronger than it was before I started the medicine.
The only upside currently is that I feel much calmer in the evenings, however the past few days especially have been rough, with almost constant anxiety or waves of really strong anxiety.
Is this normal? Anyone else dealt with this? I really hope that this is just another temporary side effect. I'm still on 50 mg and I'm kind of worried about increaisng the dose. I take it every evening and have done so from the start.
Update: So, it's the next day and today aside from the anxiety, I'm also feeling overall more nervous, jittery and it's hard to sit still. At the same time, I'm also feeling more drowsy and sleepy today. Possibly because I drank a bit less coffee this morning, since I read about the caffeine thing. I'm really starting to reconsider this medication, because right now, I'm genuinely feeling worse than before I started the medication and if every day in the foreseeable future is going to be like this, I'm not sure how I'm going to be able to handle it, especailly since I'm supposed to go on a trip next week.