What Helps Anxiety?

Marie Mallory said:
Just made an appointment with primary care doctor for med for axiety.
I talked to my granddaughter and researched meds.
I think maybe clonazepem seems to have less side effects.
What do yall think?
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I'm not sure. I was on something briefly but, not to be crude, it gave me the squirts.

All I can say is the Lexapro I've been taking hasn't presented problems for me, but everyone has different conditions, hormones, and body chemistry. Even "panic attack" might be used for different conditions.

Just got back from the Doc, and he said since I am on the lowest dose I can just stop Lexapro for 2 weeks and monitor for symptoms. Some of these drugs require ramp-up and ramp-down of dosages to avoid side effects. Doc said if I'm concerned I can split tablets and start by taking 5mg/day for 3 days before stopping. I probably won't bother. I don't expect trouble.

I guess what I'm saying is that you can't tell how your body will react ahead of time, so reading "labels" only goes so far.
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
I'm not sure. I was on something briefly but, not to be crude, it gave me the squirts.

All I can say is the Lexapro I've been taking hasn't presented problems for me, but everyone has different conditions, hormones, and body chemistry. Even "panic attack" might be used for different conditions.

Just got back from the Doc, and he said since I am on the lowest dose I can just stop Lexapro for 2 weeks and monitor for symptoms. Some of these drugs require ramp-up and ramp-down of dosages to avoid side effects. Doc said if I'm concerned I can split tablets and start by taking 5mg/day for 3 days before stopping. I probably won't bother. I don't expect trouble.

I guess what I'm saying is that you can't tell how your body will react ahead of time, so reading "labels" only goes so far.
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OB Gyn were handing Lexapro out like candy. When I woke up steam pressing my hand in the middle of a mandatory team call I kind of woke up. I had whined about weight gain and menopause.
 
Well I'm only on day 2 of not taking it. We'll see how it goes. I don't feel any different, but its a low dose AND in any case takes a while to flush out of your system. However I don't ever remember it making me feel "chill."

I keep coming back to the idea that "panic attack" might be a term applied to more than one condition.
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
Well I'm only on day 2 of not taking it. We'll see how it goes. I don't feel any different, but its a low dose AND in any case takes a while to flush out of your system. However I don't ever remember it making me feel "chill."

I keep coming back to the idea that "panic attack" might be a term applied to more than one condition.
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Condition, where should I start? So far none that I know of far as bad side effects with the one in the shot yesterday.
 
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