Anxiety and panic attacks? Need help!?

Question

I have just been through a colonoscopy and the doc said I have anxiety and panic attacks. I tried Xanax XR 1 mg. and felt like a zombie. I will be going back to the doc today for a new perscription. Does anyone know of a med that works without bad side effects? Also, maybe a natural pill that works just as well?
Thanks

Answer 1

i have the same thing and the only thing that works for me is xanax. i don't take cr though and i got used to the side effects after about a week. it really doe swork though...you don't get nervous...no panic attacks....just very addicting and hard to get off of..i'm on four mg a day....by my doctor...but i only take 2 mg.

Answer 2

I am not sure how a colonoscopy can show that you have anxiety and panic attacks? However, that does not mean that you do not suffer from them. Seek medical help for the attacks and please look into the drugs given. Xanax is a benzodiazipam which is addictive and can give you problems of dependency.
Check out the health food stores for some natural pills, but check them out with your doc to make sure they will not interfere with any meds you are on now. There are reasons that you get panic and anxiety problems and they need to be explored.
Good Luck

Answer 3

Hi there, I just laugh about my past 3 years of panic now. I was not able to go anywhere without carrying xanax. Fear of having another attack was the most important subject of my days.When i first found joe barry's web site i started to cry because of my happiness.

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Answer 4

From Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine - Murray & Pizzorno
Reduce or eliminate use of stimulants and/or alcohol
Eat a healthy diet; avoid refined foods (white sugar and flour)
Take a high potency multiple vitamin-mineral
Take calcium-magnesium-zinc tablets 3 times daily
Take 1 tbsn Flaxseed oil daily
Suntheanine, Relora, GABA, and 5-HTP may help anxiety
Super Stress B complex with Vitamin C may help
Good luck!

Answer 5

My husband went through EXACTLY what you describe. He even had the colonoscopy. The doc put him on Paxil and he said it changed his life. He has been on it for about 6 years now and no more panic attacks or anxiety. Good luck!

Answer 6

I have to be blunt! There is no THING causing this (unless there is a specifically identified illness, situation or event like a wild animal attacking you). It's not a place or situation or thought...not that couch or that car or that room or that strange feeling in your eyes, stomach, head, arms, or that crowded place! Not a brain tumor, not cancer of anything, no breakdown of any nerves! Only you! To think otherwise..to think that a certain room or situation CAUSES you to have the attacks...is false. Sure, I understand that when you are in a place or situation where you have felt these attacks before that you are aware of being there and fear THAT place or situation. BUT IT'S YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM being on a high state of alert. You must understand that it's coming from you! You also are exaggerating those strange feelings that you are having in your body into MAJOR significance. You are boxing in your life more and more by HIDING from these! It's NOT these places or situations or feelings, and I know that's hard to accept. But this is where you change your attitude from HIDING to "giving up"! From superstition to a rational approach!

Once you apply the attitude, "I will let this feeling of fear be as worse as it wants to be, I don't care anymore", and let it happen, let yourself go towards it and begin to believe it (the prime objective), then the truth starts to comes out. You become a little less afraid. IT TAKES PRACTICE. (Research in treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder has demonstrated that persistent practice of skills such as these can result in measurable changes in brain function without medication.) As you begin to "pooh-pooh" these fear feelings and establish the attitude of non-caring more and more you get closer to the rationale about them. Eventually you will be ready for the time when you truly try to make it worse while having a panic attack - and THAT is a key moment!

Want proof? If you force the panic to come, make it come...really, really beg for it to come...you CANNOT make it come! Try it! Right now try concentrating on MAKING yourself have a panic attack.

It's NOT POSSIBLE! See how that works? When you WANT to have a panic attack, you can't, and when you are afraid of having one...you get them. This is the proof that panic attacks are only apprehension.

And that is the way to resolve them.

I dealt with panic feelings on and off for 15 years and finally I realized that they never got worse - just built up and up to the same point. This was a point of fear that I SO dreaded experiencing that I would do most ANYTHING to make them go away and many times avoid the places that seemed to induce them. But after 15 years - the same feelings! I had always wondered what was passed this, beyond this feeling of fear? But I wouldn't go there. Or later on I would say, "I accept it" - but I really didn't. I was still doubting while "practicing" non-caring.

Being on this other side from fear gives you the strength that comes from understanding. An understanding that you want to LOSE this fight. THIS IS IMPORTANT: You cannot CONSCIOUSLY make a panic attack WORSE by yourself. It IS as worse as it gets. That's why when I say, "Go with it, have the worst attack possible", there isn't anything that can happen! You have already experienced the worst many times over, yet you want to run away from it each time, wanting it to go away by thinking, "please, please go away...I am losing my mind, losing control, I'm going to die (or whatever)." The intensity of the fear is fooling you! You have to turn the table and "approach" it with as much belief as you can muster in that moment of fear and panic (only takes a tiny bit). Let it come all over you and do whatever it wants to AND (when you feel ready) TRY TO MAKE THE FEAR WORSE!!!! It's not possible.

Answer 7

You can try splitting the pill either in half or fourths. There are other anti anxiety meds available. Always check with your doctor before making any changes, and NEVER take herbal remedies while you are taking your prescriptions without checking with the doctor or pharmacist.

Answer 8

Natural is the way to go. All my child hood i watched my mom and those and it was bad the doctor would say try this or this and she would and she would sleep all day or have bad mood changes. I have the same prob now I'm older and i work threw it myself, take deep breaths or go for a walk talk to a friend on the phone. You could also try st johns wort's and see What they have or go to a local hi health store....

Answer 9

Brother man get you a bottle of wine a bag of some high power weed put on some serious jazz and relax you will be fine. You will sleep like a baby and feel no pain it works for me.

Answer 10

HI There!
I have suffered from panic attatcks for years. The best drug combo for me is Paxil and Klonopin.