Understanding Anti Anxiety Medications
Anti-anxiety medications may offer a quick solution to the problems of particular concern. These types of traditional medicines, including anti-anxiety drugs (benzodiazepines), as well as for new options such as antidepressants, beta blockers. And can help reduce your anxiety while undergoing treatment to get to the cause of the problem. But what is important to understand that where these types of drugs do not cure anxiety, they do not come with side effects. It is not advisable to rely on long-term drugs.
It can reduce anxiety benzodiazepines quickly, usually within an hour, so be a good choice if you are experiencing a state of panic or anxiety attack. Alprazolam (brand name Xanax) clonazepam (brand name Klonopin) diazepam (Valium brand name) and lorazepam (brand name ativan) in this class of drugs of concern. Side effects of benzodiazepines include drowsiness items and / or feeling uncoordinated and all of which can cause problems if you need to be functional, and caution. Benzodiazepine take a long time for the process of metabolism. For this reason, they can accumulate in your body if used for a long time. Is you suffer from an accumulation of these side effects that may worsen and develop slurred speech, dizziness depression inability to think clearly cause confusion and memory loss, nausea and inability to feel anything. Benzodiazepines alleviate the concern, but also a decrease in feelings of pleasure and pain.
To benefit from antidepressants compared to traditional drugs is a concern that the risk of dependency and abuse is less than that. But the downside of antidepressants is that they can take 4-6 weeks to provide you relief from your anxiety, so they do not interest you if you have a panic attack, for example.
Antidepressants most commonly prescribed (SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (such as Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft, Celexa and Lexapro that they are not without side effects: nausea, headache, dizziness and drowsiness nervoursness nausea sexual dysfunction and weight gain.
Buspirone (BuSpar brand name) works only for general anxiety disorder (the integration of women in development). It eases anxiety by increasing serotonin in the brain (such as (S-SSRIs) and dopamine in the decline. Buspirone takes about two weeks to kick into effect but it has its advantages: it is not as sedating doesn’t negatively affect memory, coordination and addiction to a minimum. As to have less serious side effects: drowsiness nasuea dizziness, headache, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, dry mouth.
It is commonly used beta blockers to treat high blood pressure and heart problems. But it can work for very concerned by blocking the effects of the stress hormone norepinephrine involved in the fighting, or in response aviation. Beta blockers to control the physical symptoms of anxiety such as rapid heart rate and sweating, dizziness, trembling voice and hands, but not in the emotional side of anxiety.
The above information on anti-anxiety drugs do not substitute medical advice provided by Occupational Health.
