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Good medication for mild panic attacks or anxiety

wcote

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Basically story is I was amitriptyline for back pain, I have mild epilepsy and it caused me to have 3 seizures in 5 weeks. So I came off the amitriptyline with a taper over few weeks. Got of ami in march this year. In that time I had two big panic attacks. I was panicking about having seizures which is fucking HORRIBLE :-(

Ever since when I'm very tired and out and about I can have mild anxiety or maybe panic attacks not sure which one but not pleasant as I can it is about having seizures.

So apart from benzos which I will not get as I'm down medical record as opiate and benzo ex addict.

Beta blockers any good? I don't need a full time medication as it is no more than once a week.
 
Beta-Blockers definitely help with the physical side-effects, and the Antihistamine Hydroxyzine which ,didn't help me, but has helped others people here on BL.

p.s. Being that Amitriptyline is the best Antidepressant I've found - and I'm still on it - coming off it sounds horrible :( I didn't have any for a week and yeah I got a small feeling of what it must be like.
 
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I was put on propranalol (beta-blocker) when my heart rate decided to do 120 at rest and I couldn't sleep etc. (It wasn't drug-related - my doc said it was probably stress.) It definitely sorted the physical side effects and from doing my research seems to help a lot of people who have panic attacks etc. Is probably one of the better options.
 
You WILL get mirtazepine. GPs think it's the solution to all the world's evils :|
 
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Or maybe sertraline, or any SSRI, they hand em out like candy. That said sertralines helped with my anxiety and i'm only on 50mg
 
My GP is an absolute gem! So beta blockers would not be off the cards.

As an ex heroin addict she gave me morphine for my chronic back pain. Although due to trying pregabalin I'm on codeine at the moment.

So will enquire about beta blockers. I get fucking mad head rushes which are similar to what sometimes happen before a seizure so you can see that would only make the panic worse :(
 
wcote said:
As an ex heroin addict she gave me morphine for my chronic back pain. Although due to trying pregabalin I'm on codeine at the moment.
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how long were you on heroin for? unless it was a very small amount, or very short duration - morphine shouldnt touch the sides (in terms of pain relief) but still be enough to bring your rattle back with a vengeance. how have you avoided this?
 
lurching said:
+1

it's an anxiolytic and anticonvulsant. works fast, feels a bit like benzo such as clonazepam (or light dose GHB), low addiction potential.
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It certainly worked for me. I don't think it feels much like benzos/G, but it definitely hits the same spots. Just watch out for sudden, massive, weight-gain. Be prepared to drop your calorie intake, despite being starving. I'm almost off it now, and I'm pretty much anxiety/fat free. It pretty much saved me, and I'd recommend it to most people. It's obviously good for pain, as well, so is brilliant for anyone experiencing anxiety and pain, simultaneously.
 
Mela said:
Alternatively, fuck off pharma period and seek MCBT/CBT.
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Appreciate you're requesting info on a good med wcote, otherwise I'd also recommend the above and meditation for a longer term solution.

Hope you get sorted.
 
My panic attacks have now gone. Sometimes I might get a little bit anxious but I have been able to teach myself to calm myself down. So self taught CBT I guess, it is really useful. I never wanted a benzo being an ex benzo muncher I dont trust myself!

Off morphine. On pregabalin but went to high a dose really helped with pain but turned into a fucking zombie! So had to reduce dose, which meant pain started to creep back. So I'm on codeine now.

Opiate addict for over 3 years, prescribed codeine and morphine, then gear, then subutex to get clean.
 
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