Anxiety - is there a medication...

[katem98]

Which you can take when you feel your anxiety levels rising? I was prescribed Sertraline but struggle to take it daily as I'm awful at forgetting and feel that my anxiety is mostly cycle related (worse at different times during my monthly cycle). I'd love to know if there's a medication which you take when you feel your anxiety heightening which helps you think a little more logical pretty quickly and helps bring it back down? Forgive me if this is a really silly question!

Propranolol

@DatingAWidower22 Do you have any experience with this medication?

Propanol works great for me to control the physical symptoms

Yes I do. It takes the physical symptoms away like racing heart, sweating, shaking etc.
I’ve tried so many antidepressants and finally found fluoxetine which is working for me now

How quickly does Propranolol work ? Is it like diazepam? Can you take it as a one off ?.

I find it tends to kick in in 20-30 minutes from taking them. I am prescribed them to take as and when needed some days I take maximum dose prescribed for me others I take none.

Propanolol works well for taking as and when needed, roughly half an hour to start working.

Propranolol has been like a miracle drug for me. Completely gets rid of the physical symptoms which stops my anxiety spiralling. Life changing.

Thanks so much everyone. I definitely have certain triggers so feel Propanalol would be great!

I was on it for years, it's very good at what it does and it's an as an when, which is better. You can get a bit of a tight chest for a couple of weeks until you get used to it, but that passes.

I take propranolol for episodic migraine, but I have found that popping an extra one on the morning of a difficult terrifying day is fabulous at bringing down the heart rate and feelings of anxiety. Wonderful stuff.

I used some extras when I was first forced into public speaking, it really helped. I know it has been prescribed for exam nerves etc.

As others have said, propanalol. For me it keeps the physical anxiety symptoms on check enough for me not to go onto full on panic, and it doesn't cause any grogginess. I just have it on repescription and take it as and when I need to.

@katem98

Which you can take when you feel your anxiety levels rising? I was prescribed Sertraline but struggle to take it daily as I'm awful at forgetting and feel that my anxiety is mostly cycle related (worse at different times during my monthly cycle). I'd love to know if there's a medication which you take when you feel your anxiety heightening which helps you think a little more logical pretty quickly and helps bring it back down? Forgive me if this is a really silly question!

Antidepressants like Sertraline or Citalopram, they will help long term. Propranolol helps only for a few hours. I am citalopram 10mg, it has helped, although there are side effects for the first 10 days or so. It also has sedative effect for me.