Author: Rmad9812
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:26 pm
Johnboy,
So do you think I may need to up the dose? I am currently on 12 mg a day and have been on that much for 1 month. Everything seemed to be going great until Monday when I had a panic attack so severe I couldn’t get into a car to get home from work. Last Friday I was prescribed propranolol 20 mg for the anxiety but it doesn’t seem like its working. I mean my heart doesn’t feel like its going to pound out of my chest like it used to, but I cant lay down w/o feeling like I am going to freak out. I am scared that there is something wrong with my heart rather than just anxiety. I have a wedding I need stand in 200 miles away from home on Saturday, and I am afraid if I don’t start feeling better soon I will have to miss it. And that will cause a huge problem because it is my brother in laws wedding! My wife will kill me, then divorce me if I miss this wedding! I don’t know what to do. I get so nervous to even step outside of the house let alone go to the hospital, which is 25 miles away from my house, and wait a whole day to be seen by a Dr. that will just give me another pill. I have been trying to find the thread about anxiety and how to control it here on this site, but it is so complicated to find anything on here. I feel fine when I walk around, but I am getting nervous that I will not make it thru the night w/o having another attack. I thought it was the ginseng I was taking, but I haven’t taken any today and I feel the same way I did last night when I freaked out. Should I go to the hospital? Should I up my dose today to see where that leads me? Should I up my propranolol dose first? I hate that I have so many different medications in my system, but what can I do? (off the subject) After this wedding I am seriously going to hamper down and start exercising as long as I can, but every time I call my Sub Dr they say he is busy or not there and no one else can answer my questions. I am at a loss. I just may go for a walk around the neighborhood and see how I feel afterward! I just really want to take a nap but laying down just makes things worse.
To be honest, the past two nights it has been so bad I had to take .05 mg of xanax, half of a 1 mg tab, and about 30 minutes later I was asleep. My Dr.’s so do not want me to mix the two, but it has been the only thing that has helped get me through the nights. I have read all about the horror stories about mixing the two, but it was the ones who combined them in mass quantities to get high that have suffered the deaths and comas. I take a half of a 1 mg tab to help me sleep. Can that be so bad? And I am up front and honest with my Sub Dr, telling him everything I take. I hope this last stint of anxiety and me taking the xanax will not effect me getting my suboxone script. I just cant take the achiness, cold sweats, racing thoughts, chest pains anymore. Do you really think if I up my dose I will feel better? I’ll call my Dr now and see if anyone can give me advise on this. But thank you so much for the advise Johnboy, wish me luck!
RMAD
