Taking DPH instead of Xanax for Panic attacks?

[drfeelgood1]

I am almost running out of my one month supply of Xanax. Taking 1mg per day for my social anxiety and plus for panic attacks.
My dr. is out of town. So I am guess I am out of luck. I have about 20 left and I want to start tapering down each day to 0.50mg to avoid major WDs in the meantime...

Taking DPH (25mg), does that usually help with panic attacks? I don't want to take over 25mgs as I don't want to fall asleep, but sedate me just enough to focus on my work.

 

[PotatoMan]

what i've found to help with panic attacks is breathing and focusing on your heart rate and trying to calm down. I'm sure they've told you this before but i'm sure if i put a DPH pill in your xanax bottle and you took it while you were having a panic attack it will calm you down. It's just the knowing that relief is on the way i believe. But I don't think DPH can truly calm you down chemically. I've found it to actually elevate my heart rate. Panic attacks are really just a mix of paranoia and tachycardia IME. You thought yourself into it, think yourself out!

Also doing work on DPH is totally out of the question for me as I feel fucking horrible on it. Maybe that's cuz I tried to get high on it back in the day but I can't dream of doing any sort of work on it.

 

[drfeelgood1]

Yeah, well, Xanax fucks me up too in a negative way as well. makes me empty, even aggressive at times...
Xanax effects to me are a bit the same as taking anti-histamines like DPH. Makes me feel depressed and empty.
So I will try the breathing method instead.

If someone tells me that Xanax is recreational, there out of there freakin minds....

However, it is great for panic attacks.
It does want to make me sleep all day...And do want to get off of it.

 

[PotatoMan]

I'm surprised no-one mentioned the breathing method to you. It works for ALL high anxiety situations tbh.

and yes xanax does make me empty and aggressive as well, it's why im totally against the therapeutic use of these meds.

 

[《Plasticity》]

It works for ALL high anxiety situations tbh.

Don't get me wrong I definitely agree that proper breathing techniques are helpful, but I've had my fair share of panic attacks where there was no way I could breathe my way out of it.

 

[PotatoMan]

Yeah in the moment there isn't much thinking happening. I was reading a book the other day talking about the difference between panicking and choking and they were saying panicking is when we think too little and choking is the opposite. Maybe during a panic attack we must think more about the situation and realize that we need to breathe idk? lol just a thought.

 

[iameatingjam]

I am almost running out of my one month supply of Xanax. Taking 1mg per day for my social anxiety and plus for panic attacks.
My dr. is out of town. So I am guess I am out of luck. I have about 20 left and I want to start tapering down each day to 0.50mg to avoid major WDs in the meantime...

Taking DPH (25mg), does that usually help with panic attacks? I don't want to take over 25mgs as I don't want to fall asleep, but sedate me just enough to focus on my work.

For me, DPH helps with anxiety for a brief peroid, a couple hours, then I get a plethora of negative effects like physical agitation and a general creepy 'weird', dissociated feeling. I usually only take it if I have bad nausea and am desperate to get some sleep.

 

[drfeelgood1]

And why do I feel so "spacey" while I am off of Xanax? Does this mean my body goes into a shock-like state?
I feel so out of it..No major WD symptoms, sometimes I get sweaty, but nothing major or too serious.
Just feel so "out of it"

Do anyone of you had this feeling while tapering off Xanax?