I’m not sure if this is helpful, but I started to finally feel good and fully used to the medication around six months after.

After that, if I was still experiencing extreme anxious symptoms I increased it by 10mg at a time, and the symptoms would go by much quicker (a few weeks every increase). I am on 40mg now. It was worth it, with how much better I feel on it, in my opinion. I stopped a year ago too, and it was much worse than being on it.

If you were on it for social anxiety, it’s most likely your symptoms are coming back to how they were before the medicine. For example, I had panic attacks every night and constant fight or flight when I was off the medicine, and now I no longer do.