Beta blockers and anxiety

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Hello.
I have been prescribed beta blockers today. I am pregnant and have high blood pressure (i have a history if preeclampsia). So this is not something being done for my anxiety problems themselves and also not something i can really avoid.
I was wondering though about the possible effects on the symotoms of anxiety that the medication may have?. I am terrified of tablets and really lookingg for a silver lining i suppose. My anxiety has been totally out of control lately the things bothering me most are physical symotoms such as racing heart and shaking especially in the evenings (when my anxiety is worst). The dose i am on is 100 (whatever the measurement is!) in the morning and 100 at night so i know it is quite a small dose to start as my blood pressure is too high to leave but nto amazingly high.

I HAVE been on these tablets before and to be honest i laid alot of the blame for the symptoms i was having on them i thought they were causing e to feel the symptoms of anxiety (i didnt know it was anxiety at the time!) so i am trying not to judge and get in a state before taking them. My first dose will be tonight and im already a little nervous.

Does anyone have experience of this? Although its for my blood pressure oculd they reduce the effects of the anxiety a little as well?

beta-blockers are given for anxiety - I have them.

Flamingo do the work well? I am too afraid to google it (i know what im like for only seeing the bad).

Not sure. I haven't had them long. I am only meant to take them if I am having a panic-filled day or night, or I can take up to three a day if I'm having a lot of bad days for a while.

I had a very stressful evening last week, which normally would have preceded a night of waking from panic-attacks, but I took a pill just in case and I didn't get anything - could just be placebo effect though. Not that I really mind if it is! Just don't want to get panic attacks!

They don't reduce anxiety as such, but they reduce the physical symptoms that occur doing panic attacks and that often scare the sufferer, such as a racing heart and a tight chest. Hope they have that effect for you. Don't be too scared to take them.

Thanks. Most of the anxiety symptoms i seem to get are physical for example shaking which is what i hate the most and seem to happen on a pretty regular basis and that in turn then sets of a whole series of other thins and worries.
I too my first tablet about an hour ago im stupidly worried about it i have managed to stave off full blown panic so far though. I know he best thing to do would be to go to sleep and forget about it but lets face it it wa never going to be that easy was it