Anxiety and Psych Meds

Hi guys,

I am considering medication for anxiety-like symptoms.
00pump gave a great response in Empire's log.

I have taken urbanol for a few weeks in the past - it worked well.
Clonidine worked but not as well as I would have liked and stopped working after a few weeks.

I suspect my issues are a tendency for pretty bad depression and anxiety in public situations.
The anxiety is essentially difficult to manage day-to-day especially in the AM.

I am very suspect of psychiatrists and any medication, I would appreciate any experience or advice.

Thanks

Do you take a lot of stimulants? Blood pressure high? You could always go the route of nebivolol which is a beta blocker that may assist you.

Blood pressure is always on the low end, still normal.

BP spikes when I have a panic attack.
Stimulants I essentially do not take when I have to attend a public event in the am.
So yeah caffeine makes it more likely to experience anxiety when in public only.

The idea of beta blocker limiting BP annoys me since for certain lifts you want the BP high - performance limit.

But I will look into it as I need help lol
Thanks

First off I would stay away from all stimulants completely if you have anxiety issues. That will help alot.

I'll give my two cents here next week. To tired to try and give this the type of attention it needs.

Hey pump,

Any chance this message finds you?

Clonidine is making me a zombie, anxiety made worse too.

Are there any drugs that won't destroy gym performance you can suggest I ask a doc about?

Thought of buspirone or hydroxyzine. Anxiety is pretty bad, daily panic attack, night sweats, cant sleep etc.

MPhilosopher wrote:

Hey pump,

Any chance this message finds you?

Clonidine is making me a zombie, anxiety made worse too.

Are there any drugs that won't destroy gym performance you can suggest I ask a doc about?

Thought of buspirone or hydroxyzine. Anxiety is pretty bad, daily panic attack, night sweats, cant sleep etc.

How long have you been taking clonidine? It's not a good idea to stop taking it cold turkey if you've been on it for a while. Taper off it slowly. Almost all drugs that are used to treat anxiety will have a rebound increase in anxiety when you come off it until your body adjusts. Clonidine is quite hardcore meds and withdrawal can be pretty unpleasant.

I used it for migraines as needed.
Took a few doses for anxiety to test it, each leaving me feeling lethargic and a bit emotionless, I have stopped for a week and feeling better already.

Howzit.. sorry bud, not fun..

The buspirone is normally something used when other stuff doesn't. It's stimulating, so it can make anxiety worse, it can help when you have some ADHD symptoms as it helps with drive but it can also ramp up the anxiety.

Hydroxyzine can work and it pretty safe, it is worth a shot.

Other options that may work better is molipaxan, you can run pretty high with the dose and the sexual side effects are very low and helps give you a good night's sleep. You may land up feeling pretty good quite quickly, ofcourse it's only a bandaid while you get your through some CBT sessions.

Something else and works in that acute manner is Stresam, it doesn't make you zonked like xanor and have that rebound regardless of the dose, it's pretty safe.

Good luck

Thank you bro I appreciate it, I will look them up tonight and ask the doc.

I am honestly not ready to talk to a therapist etc.
Got used to constant anxiety and depression coming and going.

Hence, pharma band aid sounds wonderful right about now haha

Stay away from the benzodiazepines and tranquilizers, soon as you stop it will much worse and if taken every day for more than a month, it can cause very uncomfortable symptoms. Stresam was mentioned, trepiline or train in the morning if possible cause that always worked for me and I'm adhd which complicates matters.