There are many other tools you can use to help besdies nerve pills. I recommend you try talking to a therapist to straighten all of this out. It sounds like you have been through a lot ! There is a reason the doctores won't give them to you I guess, but that is none of my business. I do know that drugs such as xanax or valium are very addictive. There are other things you can do to settle your nerves. I would research anxiety on the internet - there is all kinds of help out there. Good luck to you.

Agreed - take control of your situation. There are many herbal remedies that work wonders for people, such as Valerian root, St. John's Wort, just to name a couple. Talk to your local pharmacist - they're more knowledgeable about what's available than doctors are - it's their specialty, and they know all about interactions or contra-indications, etc.. Do get yourself a therapist as well - cognitive behavioral therapy is an absolute MUST. Diet/vitamins, exercise, sleep, sunshine and laughter are also ALL very important. Do what you can to reduce stress as well... one good way is by learning to say "no"... "No, I'm sorry, I can't help you move this weekend", or "no, I'm sorry I am unable to watch your kids for you on my only day off"... that sort of thing.

I've had panic disorder for years and years - almost my entire life, and now at 43, I am almost 100% cured - all without drugs. If you need any more help - just ask!

Oh, and btw... congratulations on kicking the drugs and alcohol. You're obviously a very strong person. I too had a drug and alcohol problem in the past - the very distant past. People like us - we're resilient... you can get over this too!

Hi! Congratulations on kicking your addiction. I am sorry you are having trouble with panic. I used to have it terribly. For me, the thing that helped me the most was educating myself about why this was happening to me. I went to the library and read every book on the subject that I could find and I took all the mystery out of what was happening. What I learned was that I was the one causing my panic. There was nothing physically wrong with me. My brain was not abnormal. The problem was ME. I was doing it to myself. The reason I felt panic was, quite simply, because I was panicking. Everybody would always tell me to "just calm down" and it really used to piss me off. They didn't know what I was going through or how hard it was. But you know what? They were right. Thats all I had to do. In the history of the world there has never been a person who had a panic attack while they were calm. Its physically impossible. If you want to beat this you simply have to learn to calm yourself down. How? By retraining your brain how to think and how to react to things in a healthy way. You have to accept your anxiety and become its friend and learn to live with it. As soon as you do this it will go away. Read anxiety books until you think you will die of boredom if you have to read them again. Speak to yourself in a positive way. Remove the words What If from your vocabluary. When you start to panic, say SO WHAT? Tell the panic that you are giving in to it and to go ahead and do its worst. Don't resist it. As soon as you stop resisting it, it will stop.
You will always have an anxious mind. It is who you were born to me and there is nothing you can do about it. But you can learn to control it instead of it controlling you. It takes time. It doesn't happen overnight. It probably took me 2 years before I fully got a handle on what was going on. But I noticed little improvements all the time. And one day I just realized that I didn't have it anymore.
Don't let yourself be a victim to your own mind. As long as you feel like a victim you will never improve. You don't need medication. I had anxiety so bad that I couldn't drive and I never took a single pill to get over it. Have faith in yourself and trust that you are strong enough to do this on your own, because you are. Good luck.

I dont take medicine for my anxiety which can be very severe. I can however tell when one is coming on since I have been having them so long. I tend to go for long walks (sometimes pacing) Have you considered getting an excercise machine to work off the anxiety? I also tell myself while Im having one that I know what is happeneing therefore I can be calmer while it is happening.

One thing that everyone needs to realize is that you do have a chronic illness, possibly fatal. This can bring on a lot of anxiety. Have any of those Doctors told you that you could be anxious over the hepc? Do you tend to feel dizzy and off balanced from this hepc?