Panic Attacks Support Group

A panic attack is a period of intense fear or discomfort, typically with an abrupt onset and usually lasting no more than thirty minutes. Symptoms include trembling, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, sweating, nausea, dizziness, hyperventilation, and sensations of choking or smothering. Panic attacks can be very sudden, appear to be unprovoked, and are often...

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SCTFP 09/13/2011

Does Xanax make anyone else iritable(spelling) Seems like most people like this med but it make me iritable and does not work real well. What dosage should I take .5mgs seems do do nothing and I'm trying to use it as a temporary sleep aid

travisbickle 09/14/2011

There is such a thing as staying on a med too long. I finally found a therapist who understands this concept, and he is helping me get off of the X first with small doses of librium, and then hopefully, with just air!!!. I read and experienced many accounts where the Xanax or Klonopin actually start to do the reverse of their intentions when they have been taken for too long, and that is that they actually bring on the disorder with more frequency. I am on my 1st week of this test, and I have not felt better in years!! I'll be the first to yell it from the mountain if it works!!

SCTFP 09/15/2011

Good luck man!! All the power to ya.

harry3333 09/15/2011

your dose is small and it usually calms you, theres much fake xanax around sadly
try a higher dose but get into bed before taking it in case it kicks in quickly

xanax is one of many valium type meds, if the others also make you irritable you would know this by now

travisbickle 09/15/2011

Reply #2 SCFTP
Thanks for your encouragement!! T
he funny thing about all this "There is such a thing as staying on a med too long" stuff, is that I had to find out about in Guitar Player Magazine in an interview with Johnny Winter!! His 'enabler' had him on like 5 Klonopins a day for years, because his lifestyle had finally caught up with him, and he had started to have panic attacks on stage in front of 20,000 people!! They doped him up good so he could go out and make $ for them, but in the end he started to go downhill. Once he got a new manger, they detoxed him and he is the best he has been in YEARS, and that is really a good thing if you like listening to a master of his craft!!
Do you think my therapist(s) know anything about this 'too much too long thing'? I suspect they could give a s*!t as long as their paychecks keep rolling in!
"yeah, drug the cretin, he'll behave!"

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