Is there connection between the drug Oxandrin and panic attacks?
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I did a search through the Oxandrin website and couldnt find any information on panic attacks as a side effect. Call your pharmacist, they will have more information.
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a panic attack is your bodys "fight or flight" reaction kicking in. the only difference is that its not considered rational at the moment that it happens. say you are walking in the jungle and a lion jumps out in front of you, thats the fight or flight reaction having a purpose. i have panic attacks, i know how you feel. no one ever died from a panic attack even though it can make you feel like it. if you need couseling try www.onestepatatime.com or if you just want someone to talk to you can talk to me. kristeena911@yahoo.com Good luck!
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Hi, I know all too well about anxiety. I have generalized anxiety disorder, which means I am always on edge and find it very hard to relax and am always tense. I do take medication for this and it helps. There are different types of anxiety and everyone experiences some at one point in there life. Panic attacks(anxiety attacks) which are linked to anxiety, is having "a fight or flight" feeling, you may get a fast heartrate, sweat, feel disoriented, confused. etc. Adrenaline gets into your body and at times you may feel like "your dying", it is a very unpleasant feeling, however, there is medication like SSRI's (the newer anti depressants, and "nerve pills", which calm you down), though these medications should be prescribed my a reputable doctor and taken exactly as prescribed, also exercise helps a lot.\nHope this helps.
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everyone experiences anxiety, many times to different degrees, and are triggered by different sources.  \n\nSOunds like GAD or a mild panic attack, i would talk with a doctor
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Is that the only symptom? After my father died, it was a stressful time, I started having panic attacks. I was told that AFTER a bad time is usually when they might appear. And out of nowhere. I worked with someone once and she had them too.  I said "man, you feel like you're going to die" and she said "no, you KNOW you are going to die" -- her husband took her to ER everytime. Mine were about 3 times a day - got hooked on Xanax but it worked. Had to get help to get off of it.  If the panic came back, I would chance that addiction again. I went to counseling which lessened the fear but not the feelings. Mine would happen in the car a lot. Like at a stop sign. My foot would shake badly on the brake and I would almost just go through. I felt like I was "melting" into the seat (oh, not afraid to drive either so that wasn't it), my heart would race. It's too many bad feelings at once. This is one of those things I swear - no one would understand unless they went through it. Mine lasted about 5 years.  My heart goes out to you if this is happening. But see your doctor. They aren't so prone to giving out Xanax anymore though. I guess I understand but it helped me big time. I was able to cope and go to work.
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The fact that you are having panic attacks in a few weeks after reducing the dosage is consistent with you not having enough medication to treat the condition.  It usually does take a good 4 to 6 weeks to know whether the symptoms will return or not.  It sounds as though you are eager to be off of the medication.  \n\nOf course it is possible to deal with panic attacks without medication - biofeedback, cognitive therapy and other methods have been shown effective.  Sometimes people say they can deal with the panic attacks as long as they know that's what they are and not a heart attack or some other serious problem.  If you want to stop the medication, I might suggest that you select a period in your life when things are relatively calm and managable, rather than during finals week or in the midst of divorce or other stressful circumstance.\n\nFor now I would discuss with your doctor the idea of going back to your old dosage, and if you want to be off medication, make a plan on how you should step down and what you might do instead of the medication.  Good luck.
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I have suffered from the same problem since I was 17 and I am now 22. At 20 I saw a therapist and then a doctor. I tried Xanex first. It was basically "spot treatment." It only worked for about 10 minutes. Paxil CR is the best for this disorder in my opinion. It doesn't have any bad side effects and I haven't had a panic attack in about two years.
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overdose causes nervousness ,shakes ,insomnia ,rapid heart beat,irregular heartbeat,
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Adrenaline.\n\n\nBtw-----Luvox, Lexapro and Effexor are SUPERB for controlling Panic Attacks and/or Dissassocative(De-realization) symptoms.
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i had a severe panic attack 3 yrs back\nsince then i am on meds.\nvisit the following site\nwww.freedomfromfear.org
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Hi, I am sorry to hear this.  You didn't state if this has always happened to you or not?!  If it is something new you are experiencing then I would really speak to a Doc.  Sometimes a load of stress in other areas of your life can make you heart race and do funny things.  It isn't uncommon to have panic attacks when stressed or nervous.  There are probably a lot of options out there to help you with out taking meds. I would really talk to your family doctor as soon as you can, just to make sure there isn't something majorly wrong.  Take Care of yourself and remember you are the best judge of yourself and what you need.  Sending you lots of smiles :) :) :)
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I suffered from anxiety (or panic) attacks for almost 20 years.\nI have been free of them for over 4 years now.\nI wish I could give you specific advice.  It took me a long time, medication, and many doctors to rid myself of anxiety attacks.\nI no longer require any medication.\n\nAnxiety disorder is the number one mental disorder in the United States, surpassing even depression.  It is the curse of the Starbucks generation.  Caffiene is a major trigger for starting an anxiety attack.  Stay off of caffiene or at least cut down.\n\nOver the years, doctors tried different medications for me.  The tradtional anit-depressants did not work in my case.  I tried Tranzene, Zoloft, Xanax, and many more.  In my particular case, Paxil was the only medication that really helped.  I stayed on Paxil for about one year before the attacks left.\n\nProper meditation works wonders.  The words "medicine" and "meditate" come from the same root word.  However, please do not assume that you can meditate after an anxiety attack.   You should meditate for at least 15 minutes each day.  True meditation is being "thoughtless", that is, you have no thoughts at all.  It takes practice to still the constant "inner dialogue" that constanly runs through our brains.  We train our minds to think and process information all our lives. Training your mind to "stop thinking" takes dilligence and patience.  It is VERY WELL WORTH IT.\n\nThere are many nuts, religious people, and deceived people out there who offer varied and incorrect teachings on meditation.  Meditation is simple.  It is not complex.  You cannot expect to see visions, dreams, or colors as many people claim.  You will mostly see the insides of your own eyelids...  that's all.  There is a wise and wonderful woman who taught me a lot about mediation.  I credit her with helping me to free myself of anxiety attacks.   She is a beautiful soul with insight into life and living.  She is full of unconditional love for all people.  She has answers.   She has power.  However, she is not a religious nut.  You can contact her here...  http://TaoBarbie.com .  \n\nTake some time to learn what your triggers are.  Learn what causes anxiety attacks for you.  What happens just before an attack?  Work on fixing those problems.  Learn to slow your breathing.  Hyperventilation is almost always associated with attacks.   \nStay away from caffiene from coffee, Colas or other soft drinks (Mountain Dew has more caffiene than coffee), energy drinks, chocolate, or tea.  All contain caffiene.  \n\nOnly someone who has had attacks can truly understand your pain and concern.  I wish you well.  After beating anxiety myself, I believe it is possible for anyone to be free of them.\nGod Bless you and yours\n\n.
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Probably some anxiety and maybe some obsessive complusive disorder (OCD). Here's some info on anxiety disorders and OCD. \n\nAnxiety disorders are the most prevalent group of psychiatric disorders in the United States. Approximately 27 million Americans--nearly 15 percent of the population--will suffer from an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives.\n\nAnxiety disorders are most often characterized as having an element of fearfulness involved. According to Dr. Steve Dager, University of Washington associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Harborview Medical Center, these disorders come about as a kind of impairment or over-reactivity of the normal "flight or fight" response.\n\nAlthough these disorders are amenable to treatment, the majority of sufferers don't receive appropriate care. Most often, people with anxiety disorders will seek relief from the physical symptoms, such as rapid heart rate, respiratory distress or nausea, and may not be aware or may not want to admit that there are emotional causes for the symptoms.\n\n"People worry about being labeled 'crackpots' if they admit to overwhelming anxiety or fear," says Dager. "But there is evidence that these symptoms are the result of healthy coping mechanisms gone awry. And worrying about them tends to exaggerate their effects."\n\nThere are several different types of anxiety disorders. The most common are:\n\nGeneralized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), exaggerated tension without apparent cause, can be debilitating but doesn't usually cause people to avoid certain situations. People with GAD often seem unable to relax or fall asleep and may experience lightheadedness, shortness of breath, nausea, trembling, muscle tension, headaches, irritability, or sweating. \n\nPanic Disorder (PD) causes people to feel terror suddenly and unpredictably. PD can become disabling when people avoid situations they fear may bring on an attack. Panic attack symptoms include rapid pulse, chest pains, shortness of breath, dizziness, nausea, numbness, trembling, and a fear of going crazy or dying. Depression or alcoholism often accompanies PD. Panic disorder is probably the best studied and understood of the anxiety disorders. \n\nAgoraphobia, the most disabling anxiety disorder, is diagnosed when panic attacks cause people to increasingly refrain from normal activities. As such people avoid situations where they fear an attack may occur -- in crowds and stores and on bridges and public transportation -- they become so restricted, they may not leave their homes. \n\nSocial Phobia (SP), an intense fear of humiliation in social settings, may cause sufferers to avoid parties, public speaking, eating out, or even signing a check in public. Unlike shyness, those with SP can feel at ease around others, yet particular situations, like walking down an aisle, cause intense anxiety. SP disrupts relationships and careers as sufferers avoid certain situations. \n\nObsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterized by rituals, such as washing hands or checking things repeatedly (compulsions), or persistent, unwelcome thoughts, such as fears of committing violent acts, of performing sexual acts repugnant to the person, or of thoughts contrary to the person's religious beliefs (obsessions). Compulsive activities consume an hour or more each day and interfere with daily life. \n\nPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can result after a terrifying event, causing sufferers frightening thoughts and memories. Anniversaries of the incident can be difficult and ordinary events can trigger flashbacks or intrusive images. Sufferers may become easily irritated or have violent outbursts. Depression, substance abuse, or anxiety may accompany PTSD. \nIf\n you feel that your life is being ruled by anxiety and fear, and that your symptoms are having an impact on your relationships and daily life, you can find help. There's no need to live in fear
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There are two ares you need to review carefully.\n\nFirst be sure you have not started any new medicines or herbs since the time the problem began.  You could be having a medicine reaction or one caused from mixing medicines or medicine and herbs.  Certain herbs do not go well with some medicines and even other herbs.  A pharmachist may be able to help answer quesstions or some in-depth research of what you are taking and their possible inter-actions with other medicines.\n\nSecondly, (if the first part does not help) you need to be more aggressive in finding out the problem.  Panic attacks are a problem, but they are only a second problem not the main problem.  Don't let anyone try to fix the panic problem and leave you with the real root problem.  \n\nMy mom and aunt both had this problem.  It took about year of going to specilists to find the root of the problem.  Several doctors claimed one thing or another and gave them medicine, but it did not fix the problem.  That is because most doctors are looking for a quick fix or treat women as panic emotional beings that a tranquilizer will do the trick.  Well, IT WILL NOT in most cases.  There is a problem and it can be solved.  Chemical emblance in the body that can effect the nervious system and or the brain, is often the problem, but not always.  It is true there are many causes, but finding the right answer for you make take some time.  If you are very lucky you might find the right answer right away, but realize this is not the usual occurance.  So, perserverance and going to additional doctors is often the course of actions tha has to be taken.\n\nThe problem is not likely to go away on its own (unless you can pin point a combination of medicines or herbs as the problem). Check into specialists in nervious system, brain functions, Miglinate Hypertension (a not-so-common blood pressure problem), and surpising enough a diet specialist.  All these may need to be contacted in order to isolate and identify the cause of the problem.  When you get the right answer you will know it because they will likely be able to treat it.  \n\nIt is unlikely that is is brain tumor, but it should not be ruled out without proper testing.  A doctor dealing with brain function can look at that plus chemical reactions in the brain itself.\n\nIf you settle for less the doctors will be happy, but you may still be in the same condition.  Good luck.
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I didn't think so, but go to the site I've included below. It lists all the possible side effects. Most of them are not common or not severe. I do know that it can become addictive if you take too much for too long a time. In other words, you can become dependent on it so that it's hard to stop or so you need more and more for the same effect. But I assume your doctor is monitoring you. I take it, too, for the same reason. Have you tried asking your doctor about particular anti-depressants that help to prevent panic attacks? These include Zoloft, Welbutrin, Prozac and others. They are not addictive. I use Xanax only for the times when my nerves are edgy, and I use Zoloft for the daily control for my panic attacks.
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Most sufferers of panic attacks report a fear of dying, "going crazy", or losing control of emotions or behavior. These feelings generally provoke a strong urge to escape or flee the place where the attack began ("fight or flight" reaction) and, when associated with chest pain or shortness of breath, a feeling of impending doom and/or tunnel vision, frequently result in the sufferer seeking medical attention.\n\nThe panic attack is distinguished from other forms of anxiety by its intensity and its sudden, episodic nature. Panic attacks are often experienced by sufferers of anxiety disorders and other psychological conditions involving anxiety, though panic attacks are not always indicative of a mental disorder, nor are they uncommon. Up to 10 percent of otherwise healthy people experience an isolated panic attack per year, and 1 in 60 people in the U.S. will suffer from a panic disorder at some point in their lifetime.\n\nPeople with phobias will often experience panic attacks as a direct result of exposure to their trigger. These panic attacks are usually short-lived and self-limiting, as they will subside once the trigger no longer present.\n\nIn conditions of chronic anxiety, one panic attack can roll into another, leading to nervous exhaustion over a period of days.\n[edit]\n\nSymptoms\n\nThe symptoms of a panic attack appear suddenly, without any apparent cause. They may include:\n\n    * Racing or pounding heartbeat or palpitations\n    * Sweating\n    * Chest pain/PVCs\n    * Dizziness, lightheadedness, nausea\n    * Difficulty breathing (dyspnea)\n    * Tingling or numbness in the hands, face, feet or mouth\n    * A sudden feeling that everything around the person represents a threat. This can cause a person to either behave extremely defensively (perhaps even assuming the fetal position), or to become enraged and lash out violently.\n    * The loss of the ability to react logically to oncoming stimuli, and the loss of cognitive ability in general. One suffering from a panic attack will often only feel the attack and will be unable to assess why they are feeling the attack or what they can do to stop the sensation.\n    * Flushed face and chest\n    * Chills\n    * Dream-like sensation or perceptual distortion (derealization)\n    * Dissociation, or the perception that one is not connected to the body or is disconnected from space and time (depersonalization)\n    * Terror, or a sense that something unimaginably horrible is about to occur and one is powerless to prevent it\n    * Vomiting\n    * Tunnel vision\n    * Fear of losing control and doing something embarrassing or going crazy\n    * Fear of dying\n    * Feeling of impending doom\n    * Trembling or "shivering"\n    * Crying\n    * Heightened senses\n    * Loud internal dialogue\n    * Exhaustion\n    * Vertigo\n\nA panic attack typically lasts from 2 to 8 minutes. More severe panic attacks may form a series of episodes waxing and waning every few minutes, only to be ended by physical exhaustion and sleep.\n\nThe various symptoms of a panic attack can be understood as follows. First, there is the sudden onset of fear with little or no provoking stimulus. This leads to a release of adrenaline (epinephrine) which brings about the so-called fight-or-flight response where the person's body prepares for major physical activity. This leads to an increased heart rate (tachycardia), rapid breathing (hyperventilation), and sweating (which increases grip and aids heat loss). Because strenuous activity rarely ensues, the hyperventilation leads to a drop in carbon dioxide levels in the lungs and then in the blood. This leads to shifts in blood pH which can in turn lead to many other symptoms, such as tingling or numbness, dizziness, and lightheadedness. It is also possible for the person experiencing such an attack to feel as though they are unable to catch their breath, and they begin to take deeper breaths, which also acts to decrease c
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yeah, xanax is good for anxiety and panic attacks.  if you have access to painkillers or that, that would be my answer.  darvocet?