Posted by Alan on October 11, 2001, at 23:46:53
In reply to Re: Which med for anxiety » lrc, posted by paxvox on October 11, 2001, at 16:50:26
> You could run a short therapy with a benzo like Xanax or tranzene or Klonopin. Since you mentioned your situation seems the result of a tempory problem, you could use the short anti-anxiety effects of the benzo for a few weeks. If you continue much more than that, you will more than likely develop some tolerance that will require titration of dosage rather than just stopping at once.
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> PAXYeah, what is it with this fear of BZD's as anxiolytics? I've never understood what the problem is? Tapering dosages is turning out to be the order of the day for ssri's and all other meds as it turns out anyway. There's 40 years of study to support the short AND long term treatment of BZD therapy. Even the World Health Organization after reviewing the long term studies of short and long term therapy consider them safe.
This whole ssri thing to treat anxiety seems to me to be iffy at best.
The neurontin and other antiepileptics may work too but if you get into low dosages of neuroleptics then risk of TD significantly increases.
Alan
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