I'm actually on propranolol, and have tried buspirone. The propranolol puts a slight damper on my anxiety which is nice. The buspirone just didn't work. It kinda helped, but I'm talking like a 2% improvement, and just made me feel really weird. I hope I can find meds too, but first I need to find a new doc. All hail US "health" insurance. I don't really mind all that much cause I was planning to look for a new doc anyway cause she didn't listen.

Like when I started the prozac and was listing off all the effects it caused I listed off like 20 bad things (no appetite, no motivation to do literally anything, feeling emotionally dead...), and one bad thing with a teeny tiny not really at all positive twist, as in "Instead of having a couple short panic attacks a day and then it's over, I'm being held on the edge of a panic attack for hours and the only thing I can feel is complete and utter terror and dread until I finally pass out from exhaustion". And she replied "Oh, that's good". 🤬 No it's not!!! I'd rather have the panic attack, meltdown, and be done, than sit on couch for hours completely terrified but unable to even cry. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy and I hate my mother.

[–] just_squanch_it@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Goddamn! I'm sorry. I feel like the antianxiety stuff did work better earlier on, but possibly helpful enough now, hopefully. Stuff is a lot different. The worst part of Prozac for me is probably being sweaty af! I thought I was sweaty before, but the threshold has definitely lowered and how much has probably gone up,but it's worthy enough of a trade-off for me for being more or less not depressed for basically all but a day or two in the last couple months for like the first time. I wish you to find a peaceful combo for yourself!