Good Anxiety Medication

[Dystopia35]

Good Anxiety Medication?

I am really considering asking my doctor for something for anxiety.
I have a stressful job as well as a stressful family. Lately I have been blowing up a lot at work. A lot more than usual.
I have also been developing issues when people are too close to me as well as loudness.
I experience shortness of breath when people are in my space. I am also snapping at my son alot more for being too loud or just bothering me. It is starting to effect my family life and work.

Several years ago I was given low dose klonopin wafers that dissolved under the tongue for fast relief of anxiety attacks. I just thought I was over it.

Anyway what anxiety medications have you guys had experience with?

 

[sabertooth virus]

I am really considering asking my doctor for something for anxiety.
I have a stressful job as well as a stressful family. Lately I have been blowing up a lot at work. A lot more than usual.
I have also been developing issues when people are too close to me as well as loudness.
I experience shortness of breath when people are in my space. I am also snapping at my son alot more for being too loud or just bothering me. It is starting to effect my family life and work.

Several years ago I was given low dose klonopin wafers that dissolved under the tongue for fast relief of anxiety attacks. I just thought I was over it.

Anyway what anxiety medications have you guys had experience with?

I have quite the case.of.agoraphobia, behavioral disorder, panic disorder and depression as well.

Told my doctory symptoms
And tested me for drugs.

I had nothing in my system and.i.told him. I only party on fourth of.july new years etc. I mean, im just not.a.drikner


.so he could see i ha e a genuinecase.of.sever.crippling anxiety and.panix.attacks...he first wrote me valium #120. 5Mg.valium monthly- they made me.tireds even with coffee, and valium you barpwy feel at all unlesa your stomach is empty, like temazepam.

Then i told him it made me.tired so he gave me.3 .5mg xanax a day. It worked amazingly but only when i took two.2 mgs will stop a panic attack in 2-5 minutes with xanax, 15minutes for the wafers-40

 

[Dystopia35]

Yeah I actually completely quit drinking this year. So much stress going on that alcohol was not a good mix.

 

[BrentlyD]

I feel you Dystopia. I am the same way I have a very stressful life in general, most people ask me how I do it. I also quit drinking completely almost a year on October 23rd, my depression is gone but anxiety is a killer. the past few days I've been tossing around the idea of drinking again, but I really don't want to. Love xanax too its the only thing that makes me feel like everything is going to be ok. It's just a slippery slope to use them without becoming physically dependent.
but in my opinion it's been the best thing for acute anxiety, but not long term everyday. Sometimes i feel like i have to decide if i'm going to be tied to the anxiety or tied to the pill.

 

[Katiet123]

If stay away from the benzos.. Buspar works for me.. Non narcotic

 

[contradictionary]

Where I live, only one of these must be prescribed by a doctor, but I'll include the other two in case you're interested anyway.

5-HTP seems to help me a bit, but can't be sure. The only positive effect it definitely has is on my sleep. If you have problems with sleep, related to the anxiety or not, 5-HTP is likely to make it either much worse or much better, but getting the dose right is very hard and what used to make you sleep seems to start keeping you awake all night. Other people report a lot of success with it for anxiety.

Melatonin is the one to go for if you really want reliable help sleeping, though. 5-HTP only has that effect because some of the extra serotonin gets converted to melatonin, but if you just take melatonin supplements the effects are far more predictable, though they might sedate you too much in the day.

For the last few days I've been supplementing with chelated magnesium (other forms, like magnesium oxide are said not to work or be worth the money). I actually bought it for the purpose of preventing tolerance, as it's an NMDA receptor antagonist, and then I learned some people use it for anxiety as well. It does seem to sedate me significantly.

 

[sekio]

Ask your dr, we don't do "what should I take" threads.