Posted by confused-in-TN on August 30, 2012, at 14:47:23
In reply to Re: Anxietys back - beta blockers? » jono_in_adelaide, posted by phidippus on August 27, 2012, at 23:14:23
> Beta Blockers don't treat anxiety. they treat the symptoms of anxiety-the parasympathetic response your body has to fear.
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> Only one beta blocker ever improved my anxiety: Pindolol. It works because it is 5ht1a agonist, like Buspar, another anxiolytic. 5ht1a agonism essentiallly helps treat anxiety and depression.
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> Its worth a try!
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> >But that gets back to the chicken and the egg thing. Does your body sense the physical symptoms and interpret them as anxiety or does the anxiety cause the symptoms or is it an endless cycle? Anyway if beta blockers help....which in my case they seem to, why not? Best to all.
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