Posted by tina on July 3, 2000, at 17:13:54
In reply to Re: question to Cam or other's who might know, posted by danf on July 3, 2000, at 12:39:14
Cam--you are such an inspiration to me. That said i will answer your questions. I do take the Rivotril at regular times. One in the morning and one at night. I can't increase that because I get sleepy and useless. My doc is a witch who doesn't think I need Xanax as well as Rivotril and won't give it to me. She is afraid I'll overdose and doesn't want that responsibility. Like it's all about HER--please! How can I convince her that I need both and I won't overdose. The depression is taken cae of most days and suicide is NOT an option I think about. If I skip the next Rivotril after taking Xanax will my body go into withdrawal at all and start that vicious cycle of which one do I take when?
dan--thanks for the info. I'll try the melting under my tongue thing. I know it tastes like shit but I'll try anything right now. I want my life back damn it!
Thank you to everyone that contributed to this. Nikki, love you babe. I immediately get the sick feeling and the stomach pain and then the shakes come. Never been any different for me. I hope that will change though.
Take care of yourselves, everyone. You mean the world to me.--hugs, Tina
> Tina,
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> a couple of things.
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> depending on the PA symptoms, a beta blocker may help. They help most if you have mainly cardiovascular or adrenergic mediated things like racing heart, BP spikes, flushing, sweating, shakes & tremors. They work in a day or so & are very helpful for some. they do little for anxiety itself, but the rivotril should help with that.
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> 3 used. inderal (3x /day), pindolol ( 2x /day), atenolol (Tenormin) 1x /day. Of the 3 pindolol may speedup the effective onset of psych drugs as well as relieve some of the epinephrine related effects of PA.
> in the archives pindolol also helped a few people with ringing in the ears from meds.
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> you can speed up the onset of the rivotril by letting it melt under your tongue. tastes like crap, but works a lot faster.
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