Anxiety Medications. What has worked for you?

[AlwaysHungry]

You can do cardio while using propranolol, but I'd recommend that you only use 10mg, or even 5mg. At these doses, your heart beats smoothly, with low intensity. No clunking heart beats, no palpitations, no tachycardia. Just smooth heart beating. It will lower your blood pressure a little bit.

The better thing to do would be to do your fasted cardio without propranolol, because with less adrenaline action after taking propranolol, you won't burn as much fat. On the the other side, lowering adrenaline will lower cortisol, so you may be able to lose fat more effectively since your body isn't in stress mode, and the body will preferably burn fat instead of muscle. A lot of people do fasted cardio and are only running on fumes and sky high cortisol, which burns all of their glycogen, and then they jump into immediately burning muscle tissue.

What kind of cardio do you do, at what intensity, and for how long?

What I find to be special about propranolol, is it can "reset" your stress response. It can break bad habits. It can retrain your body. This means you may not have to take propranolol all the time. Maybe you take it a few days, or a few weeks, or occasionally. It doesn't matter. On some level, it will modify your body's stress response to whatever stimuli known or unknown, that is creating these physical manifestations of anxiety.

You may find that you start to operate cool, collected, calm, without anxiety symptoms, even when you don't take propranolol.

You can also accomplish this "reset" with clonidine. But that's another topic. Essentially, you have to break the stress response, which is basically out of control cortisol and adrenaline, which in turn causes all kinds of blood sugar problems like hyperglycemia/hypoglycemia etc. It's a vicious cycle that has to be broken.

I think propranolol is the best solution for this and it's pretty risk free, unless you have asthma, because some people get bronchial restrictions, like wheezing etc. Not that common though.

Sounds good ! I will give it a try surely at 5mg for a start after fasting cardio.
I do 5k every morning relax pace , sometimes if I'm not alone we'll up the intensity and maybe running on some hills.
I'm also on 6iu GH 1g aas at this stage so I think I don't burn muscle that easy.

 

[Inspired]

Interesting stuff, I can only find it at 40mg per pill.

Is it fine to take with cialis? Also does it affect libido or erection like some BP meds tend to do? What else we need to keep in mind before taking it?

I would cut it carefully into 4 different pieces. 40mg is too much. You aren't looking to control blood pressure with propranolol here. You just want to take the edge off, and 5-10mg will do this.

You can take it with Cialis.

At higher doses, beta blockers, especially propranolol, can absolutely reduce erection quality and libido. This is more likely when you are an older guy taking old school beta blockers (like propranolol) to control blood pressure, and you are taking them long term at high doses.

I would say that taking propranolol 10mg, even a few times per day, it unlikely to cause any problems.

I think you should try it. The dose is very small and the effect is finished in 4 hours, so if you somehow didn't like the effects, you aren't stuck there feeling bad for an entire day.

 

[Inspired]

Sounds good ! I will give it a try surely at 5mg for a start after fasting cardio.
I do 5k every morning relax pace , sometimes if I'm not alone we'll up the intensity and maybe running on some hills.
I'm also on 6iu GH 1g aas at this stage so I think I don't burn muscle that easy.

I would take it after you run, unless you have physical anxiety while you run. In that case, try it while you run.

 

[AlwaysHungry]

I would take it after you run, unless you have physical anxiety while you run. In that case, try it while you run.

No I'm relaxed , as I stated above ashwagandha works well for me atm. But I will definitely try it to see what's the deal , or I can maybe use it as needed as you told me in case I know I'll have a stressful activity etc.

 

[Matt90]

My doc put me on Buspar as an addition to the SSRI he prescribed me. Reason being is buspar can help people who are having negative sexual side effects from SSRI meds. With that being said I had a very negative experience with Buspar. It took my anxiety and it amplified it ten fold which happened within the first 24 hours of taking it. I tried it 3 seperate times with the same outcome. I know people who have had a great experience with it. However it wasn't for me. Point being is that it can potentially make anxiety worse in certain people so if it happens you will have some prior insight. Just try not to over think it bc if u are like me you can over think it to a point that it will make your symptoms even worse.

 

[jJjburton]

No I'm relaxed , as I stated above ashwagandha works well for me atm. But I will definitely try it to see what's the deal , or I can maybe use it as needed as you told me in case I know I'll have a stressful activity etc.

What dose ashwaganda?

 

[Tomlikebeetroot]

Have heard some guys claiming that proviron worked wonders for reducing general/social anxiety. Maybe not so useful for panic attacks though.

For reduction in panic attacks, some studies have shown high doses of inositol at 12-18g/day to be more useful than some prescription medications.

 

[Country Club Hero]

I have found that taking 3 x 2mg klonopin completely nips my anxiety. Just 3 little pills spread throughout the week and I have no issues at all. I didn’t expect it to work like that.

only problem is I’m down to 6-7 pills and I can’t find anymore anywhere since Juice Daddy quit selling them. I have VA insurance so they sure as hell won’t prescribe them.

I love the USA but stuff like this needs to be fixed. A veteran with legit anxiety issues has to seek treatment on the black market because VA doctors are spineless and usually bottom of the barrel docs. SMH

 

[Country Club Hero]

Have heard some guys claiming that proviron worked wonders for reducing general/social anxiety. Maybe not so useful for panic attacks though.

For reduction in panic attacks, some studies have shown high doses of inositol at 12-18g/day to be more useful than some prescription medications.

It kinda does. Makes me feel happy and more social. Major sense of well-being increase. Unfortunately they also turn on the oil glands in my face. Like bad bad. So I can’t even use them.

 

[clearheaded]

proviron im guessing ur talking about.. isn't inositol like an alcohol sugar soluble fibre type thing?

 

[AlwaysHungry]

I would cut it carefully into 4 different pieces. 40mg is too much. You aren't looking to control blood pressure with propranolol here. You just want to take the edge off, and 5-10mg will do this.

You can take it with Cialis.

At higher doses, beta blockers, especially propranolol, can absolutely reduce erection quality and libido. This is more likely when you are an older guy taking old school beta blockers (like propranolol) to control blood pressure, and you are taking them long term at high doses.

I would say that taking propranolol 10mg, even a few times per day, it unlikely to cause any problems.

I think you should try it. The dose is very small and the effect is finished in 4 hours, so if you somehow didn't like the effects, you aren't stuck there feeling bad for an entire day.

My friend I finally tried propranolol, what a fucking great drug isn’t it ? All’s my physical symptoms did go away. It reduces my heart rate to the point I feel comfortable and I don’t have any symptoms (physical) of anxiety.
I also feel calm.
I read the recommended dosage for anxiety is 30-40mg. I take 20mg when I wake up and another 20mg at the afternoon l. I maybe need a third dose mid day but so far so good.
I really thank you for this suggestion!

 

[AlwaysHungry]

What dose ashwaganda?

1 tablet KSM66 don’t know the dosage I will read the label and tell you. It’s Swanson brand

 

[Inspired]

My friend I finally tried propranolol, what a fucking great drug isn’t it ? All’s my physical symptoms did go away. It reduces my heart rate to the point I feel comfortable and I don’t have any symptoms (physical) of anxiety.
I also feel calm.
I read the recommended dosage for anxiety is 30-40mg. I take 20mg when I wake up and another 20mg at the afternoon l. I maybe need a third dose mid day but so far so good.
I really thank you for this suggestion!

I'm really happy to hear that it works for you and I am also happy that I was able to help you find a solution.

The dosing for anxiety is usually 10mg, as needed, up to several times per day. You can theoretically take 10mg every 4 hours.

I would stick to the smaller dosing I recommended earlier. But if this works for you, then try it. You can aways reduce the dose.

 

[AlwaysHungry]

I'm really happy to hear that it works for you and I am also happy that I was able to help you find a solution.

The dosing for anxiety is usually 10mg, as needed, up to several times per day. You can theoretically take 10mg every 4 hours.

I would stick to the smaller dosing I recommended earlier. But if this works for you, then try it. You can aways reduce the dose.

The pills comes at 40mg so I just split them in half. And it works great for anxiety for my heart rate and BP so I just keep it as it is 20mg 2x daily but I feel it would be better to take it 3x. I don’t have any sides at this dosage. And again thank you very much my friend.

 

[psauce]

The pills comes at 40mg so I just split them in half. And it works great for anxiety for my heart rate and BP so I just keep it as it is 20mg 2x daily but I feel it would be better to take it 3x. I don’t have any sides at this dosage. And again thank you very much my friend.

They make extended release propranolol, up to 160 mg IIRC. If it's helping you with both anxiety and blood pressure management, it's worth looking into.

 

[AlwaysHungry]

They make extended release propranolol, up to 160 mg IIRC. If it's helping you with both anxiety and blood pressure management, it's worth looking into.

I’ve looked into it cause it’s a pain to dose it 2-3 times daily.
But in my country they don’t sell XR at the pharmacy and it’s already dirt cheap to look into buying from the net.

 

[SVRE46]

Zoloft works for me. 50mg daily. Keeps me level overall with no sides.

 

[hurricane]

Zoloft works for me. 50mg daily. Keeps me level overall with no sides.

Tried Zoloft in the past. Worked pretty well but the sexual side effects were horrible.

 

[inon]

Therapy and counseling have been my tools for fighting anxiety.
I would highly recommend seeking the support of a psychiatrist who specializes in anxiety disorders.

A psychiatrist will help you fight the problem from the root, while the drugs only mask the problem

 

[jJjburton]

Therapy and counseling have been my tools for fighting anxiety.
I would highly recommend seeking the support of a psychiatrist who specializes in anxiety disorders.

A psychiatrist will help you fight the problem from the root, while the drugs only mask the problem

Yes this is very true