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Re: Cam and Others, Social Anxiety Cocktail Evaluation

Posted by Rick on August 26, 2000, at 17:47:11

In reply to Cam and Others, Social Anxiety Cocktail Evaluation, posted by Billb on August 10, 2000, at 18:59:02

Man, what a lot of good info! Andrew could write a book!

A few comments:

The daily challenges and symptoms mentioned in these posts are so closely aligned with my own experiences that I can hardly believe it! I found the head-shakiness comment especially interesting because that was my initial troubling physical symptom of what I later learned was a mental disorder. Oddly, that symptom spontaneously resolved after a few years, but was soon replaced with the voice shakiness that has been my biggest source of embarrassment and increased work/social/family avoidance for the many years since. In fact, I sometimes use my patented VMAC Scale (Voice Mail as a Crutch) to measure my progress: Before treatment I re-recorded meassages ad nauseum until most traces of tremulousness or other vocal tenseness was gone; now I re-record infrequently. (Sweating was a significant secondary issue, but I don't know whether that decreased due to the meds, losing a lot of weight, lowered blood pressure, lowered blood sugar, or a synergistic combo of the above. Also, part of the voice problem may be physical in nature, since it sometimes re-surfaces a bit when I'm feeling weak due to excessive hunger and/or sleepiness from late-night work, etc.)

My own Social Anxiety cocktail was mentioned in one of the posts. One of the unexpected benefits of my moderate-dose Klonopin is that I now rarely have bouts of insomnia, even though I take most of my daily dose first thing in the morning, and seldom take any after 3 p.m.

To Andrew: While Provigil has supplied me with plenty of the outgoingness (is that a word?), wakefulness, and cognitive enhancement that you reoport with the related adrafinil, I haven't yet seen any of the touted memory enhancement. Have you noticed a memory effect with adrafinil?

Best of luck to all posters and lurkers,
Rick


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