Well - there's your problem. You have been prescribed Anti-depressant medication when you suffer with anxiety
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Also if you are against ADs then don't take them
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. I lost 4 years of Life because I didn't want to take them, once I had accepted that I have to take ADs for Life, then DH and I began to go out and about. Anxiety is treated with a 40mg Beta-blocka at night and an emergency medication on an 'as necessary' basis - initially Valium now something else, name escapes me. But it is prescribed for short-term use. I had to accept that if I had a chronic disease i.e. diabetes that I would take the medication, so why not take ADs. I also don't tell anyone unless absolutely necessary which medication I take. Nowt to do with anyone other than my GP!
I have never heard of ADs causing restless leg syndrome. Usually this is due to a lack of potassium in the diet. Eating bananas regularly cured my symptoms in 5 days, I began eating 2/3 daily for panic attacks - and found they eased RLS symptoms. Phew! Magnesium can be another reason for the syndrome. I am aware of the syndrome all the while but it starts as soon as I get into bed and can keep me awake. I have tried sleeping with legs elevated up the wall, of course once I drop off so do the legs - usually onto Hubby's head
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. For a few years I had 3 double blankets under the mattress on my side of the bed which did help as does Nurofen before bed.
Anxiety can ground me within moments so you have my sympathy.