What medication helped relieve your anxiety?

Duloxetine works great for my anxiety.

Paroxetine for 19years. I have been told that they don't prescribe it these days unless you are already on it as it's quite old hat and there are better drugs out there (I tried to change to one of these and lasted 3 days!).

Methylphenidate - taken to treat adhd symptoms. Completely helped my anxiety. Some days I have no symptoms. That's zero anxiety related symptoms, let that sink in. I could never have imagined a day without anxiety before, and I've tried a lot of medication for it through the GP. My anxiety must have been adhd related, so anxiety meds weren't doing anything for it.

Quetiapine saved me.

Sertraline really helped me (general anxiety, panic attacks & health anxiety), but anaemia & low vitamin D made it a lot worse - hopefully you've had those checked?

I also found tea with valerian in helped a lot with my 'going to sleep panic' & I had it when I felt an attack coming on during the day (this was pre-sertraline) too. I'm not wholly sure if it was a placebo effect but it definitely helped so doesn't really matter if it was.

Diazepam but not easy to get hold of!

Sertraline is worrking reallywell for dh. The first few weeks were hell but he was warned (be reading the sertraline threads here, thank you ll very much!). He's a changed and I'm so glad!

Propranolol works for dd. She getsreally anxious but she takes the propranolo as and when, iyswim, and finds it helpful though it's possible that it's placebo if shee's not taking it every day. She did at first for quite a while, but then she started taking it onlywhen she needed it. No idea whythat changed, but she still finds it helpful.

Hope you find what works for you.

No medication helped what helped me was -

CBT
Mindfulness
Hypnotherapy
Yoga

I'm not sure @Aquabi, it used to be prescribed to many but I think it's use has been replaced by SSRIs. Not an opioid, it's a benzodiazepine , but definitely addictive and use should be limited.

I felt awful on citalopram, but sertraline worked really well for me. It just felt like every day was a good day.

This is so difficult because everything is patient dependent!
For me:

Citalopram - took me from mild anxiety to full blown depression with suicide attempts. Meanwhile it was my best friends miracle drug.

Fluoxitine (prozac) - Just didn't really do much at all.

Sertraline - Fine for a while, then needed the dose increased. Then fine and again dose increase. Got to maximum and effects waned but hair started thinning drastically.

Venlafaxine - Did nothing for me, but had consequences for my liver and kidneys. Took forever to sort.

Mirtazipine - Gave me restless legs so bad that I didn't sleep... which of course had huge detrimental effects to my MH.

Trazadone - My miracle drug. Every single thing about it was perfect for me. It increased my appetite when I struggled to eat. It made me sleepy and sleep WELL when I suffered insomnia. It helped me to no end and I finally found a medication which made me me again. I will forever be thankful for staying on the path to find the right one. Now though? If I needed it again? I'd struggle with it, because the drowsy side effects would not suit with my three year old. Thankfully, touch wood, I've been off them around 7 years and see no need at the moment to start again.

But Trazadone for my friend? Worst drug in the world and made her infinitely more unwell.

All this is to say that whatever one person's miracle cure is, bares nothing to what might be yours. It really is a horrible case of just trying each and finding what does and doesn't suit you. Its a really tough (and sometimes long) journey but it is one that is so so so worth it.

My doctor prescribed Alprazolam 2 and a half years ago and it has really helped me. Also sleeping pills - Zopiclone.

I've taken sertraline since my son was born 5 years ago, also have anxiety and then had pnd, I finally came of it for a year last year and was doing loads better but then my dad died and I spiraled again, went back on it and within a week I was feeling better

Knocking booze, pasta and bread (still ate complex carbs) on the head and focusing on high protein, high fat diet and loads of water and walking. Took two weeks for me to notice a difference. Lost 10kg too. HRT also helped.

It's opioid family and highly addictive.

Sertraline and propranolol

I had all your symptoms for years until I started drawing. I love to sit and draw late at night and I have the most amazing night's sleep afterwards. I find I am now so calm that I don't need medication.

Sertraline 150mg. But....it took ages to actually work, I stuck with it and I am a new woman (for the last 10 years!).

Started on 50, then increased slowly to my current dose.

Try this.

There's a book and audio book as well as the app

Mainly free (you can pay for stuff on the app, I dont)

Duloxetine and nortryptaline

Ativan aka Lorazepam. The first time I took one, the sense of utter fear and dread that had been constant for years, just went away. It was a sunny day, I walked to my local park for the first time in 7 years and sat on a bench. I felt OK. I also thought, 'no drug should be so effective, this stuff must be fantastically addictive' so I rationed it's use. I think its been withdrawn now.

Paroxetine

Paroxetine

Same for me. I’m can’t believe the difference. Very few things trigger my anxiety now, and I have gone from worrying about everything all the time, to the extent I couldn’t sleep, to being super chilled and relaxed.