What are you taking it for, anxiety? It's supposed to work on physical symptoms (for me: nausea, vomiting, dizziness) but I did find it helped me have less thoughts racing in my head (ie. calmer) maybe because I was calmer all the time, and generally made everything seem a lot easier to do/manage.
It doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you go.
No-one gets remembered for the things they didn't do.
We won't all be here this time next year,
so while you can take a picture of us.
We're definitely going to hell,
but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
It slowed my heart down, and it helped a bit from memory, it was good with my 'shakiness' and sweating. I suppose I could say it calmed my body and the fight or flight reactions down a bit, like, heightening my threshold for physical symptoms, they became a bit less pronounced. I did have to stop taking it due to worries about low blood pressure and there was an ambivalence over its helpfulness at the time.
This thread has reminded me its something I could/would try again. It would be more suitable now than before because I am eating a lot better. If you take it, remember to eat AND DRINK well, low blood pressure is a side effect at the best of times.
Oh yeah, even from someone who eats healthily, you do have to make sure you're eating or drinking - during revision I'd forget and then I'd suddenly get very tired/dizzy and need to eat. It is definitely worth any side effects though IMO.
It doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you go.
No-one gets remembered for the things they didn't do.
We won't all be here this time next year,
so while you can take a picture of us.
We're definitely going to hell,
but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
It really helped me when I was taking it regularly with my anxiety and generally keeping my heart rate down. It also stopped me from fainting due to anxiety. What are using it for? X
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It helped the first time round, when my panic attacks were very severe.
However when I took it again a couple of years later, it made me dissociate [as it was suppressing the feelings, if that makes sense?] and also enhanced insomnia. But I often have a weird reaction to medication.
Oh yeah, I took it for the tremors I had, it worked well. That's what I meant about shakiness. I used to have tremors that were quite noticeable to other people and it made me look as anxious as I felt which in turn made me really self conscious and more anxious!
I was on it regularly for about a year but it only helped with the physical symptoms of anxiety, not the thoughts. I now only take propranolol when I'm struggling with physical symptoms of anxiety and take pregabalin daily instead. It has changed my life for the better. Also be careful with your blood pressure because propranolol lowers it and you could get some horrible symptoms like dizziness, lightheadedness and confusion.
I was on it, but came off it as I have raynards syndrome (v.poor circulation, blue/white/red hands and feet when cold etc), and it made it so much worse! So bear this in mind If your circulation isn't great
I had this prescribed for like 2 months a couple of years ago to slow my hear rate. I personally had really bad stomach pain when I took it for nearly a month, which then settled down but then I found it wasnt really helping much or doing anything for me so i stopped taking it. It could be it just wasnt right for me or maybe dosages etc.
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...My smile's just the armour I built when I was alone...
There was some part of me that hurt so badly, that I wouldn't ever be able to forget it.
It faded but the memories could bring it back any second, keeping me in the moment.
It would never fully heal. I could never really be free. I could never really be fixed. Now I just have to work out how to live whilst being broken.
I feel like I'm dying.
