anxiety Attack

Article by Mark Tern

If you suffer from anxiety attacks you are not alone. Many Americans suffer from it and for sure there are many ways to address the problem.

The two mainstream approaches are:

1) Take the therapeutic route with a mental health professional.2) Take anxiety and panic attack medications prescribed by a doctor.

The advantage of the second approach is that if you need help with anxiety or panic attacks, you can find apparently a quick answer with an anxiety attack medication.

You can find it in a variety of forms and for sure they could deliver you a fast relief, but beware that it’s unwise to proceed in this field without the express and careful advice of your doctor or a medical professional.

If you ask your physician, you’ll discover that there are many different types of drugs to treat anxiety and panic attacks. A quick research on this subject reveals that you can find some exotic categories of drugs, like beta blockers, tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, azapirones, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, and more.

A popular type of anxiety attack medication are beta blockers. They’re especially effective in controlling shaking, trembling, heartbeat and other panic and anxiety attacks related symptoms. If you have sleep problems, beta blockers could be not suited for you, as they can cause insomnia, nightmares and other sleep related issues. However if you don’t have sleep problems, they could be helpful as they’re known to have fewer side effects than any other kind of medications. They don’t actually cure the anxiety attack so aren’t suited for a long term approach, however they can be helpful for an immediate intervention, and help you with a quick relief.

Another popular type of drugs used to treat panic attack symptoms are tricyclic antidepressants (popular examples include Venlafaxine, Nortriptyline and Tofranil). They’re used also to treat severe depression and obsession disorders like OCD (obsessive compulsive disorders). You have side effects also with this kind of anxiety medications, including trouble urinating, erectile disfunction, loss of sex drive. You risk to have also sleep problems as with beta blockers.

Benzodiazepines are the typical anxiety attack medication which is prescribed most often to anxiety attack suffers (Alprazolam and Xanax are popular examples). Use of benzodiazepines can be very different in different patients. It can vary from one time assumption to a several years intake. Benzodiazepines based medications claim to solve anxiety symptoms in a big 70% of the patients (probably you have to ignore that the medical pamphlet included with this kind of drugs states that benzodiazepine could be cause of anxiety).

As we have seen, there are many types of drugs you can resort to if you have a panic attack. The general rule to be safe is to be careful with anxiety attack medications. You

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