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Return To Anxiety Article Archive   Search the Article Archives How to Deal With Anxiety Attack Medications The Quick and Safe Way 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 its unwise to proceed in this field without the express and careful advice of your doctor or a medical professional. If you ask your physician, youll 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. Theyre 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 dont have sleep problems, they could be helpful as theyre known to have fewer side effects than any other kind of medications. They dont actually cure the anxiety attack so arent 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). Theyre 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 have to inform yourself on the available anxiety medications options, research them and talk to the medical professional. The most important task is that you have to double check with your physician and your health specialist the side effects of your prospected anxiety attack medication and its impact on your specific health status. There are patients that suffer of side effects which are worse than the original anxiety problem. If this happens to be your case, then change the medication for another one with side effects you can tolerate or, better, lower the anxiety medication therapy in favour of the cognitive therapy. Of course you have to discuss this topic with your doctor. Please dont take this kind of decision by yourself. So an appropriate use of an anxiety attack medication can save you a lot of time but you have to do it in a sensible way. You have to balance it with a longer term approach and you can find more about a balancing approach with a panic attack medication at my website. About the Author: Visit Mark Terns Anxiety and Panic Attack Website, get his free 'Getting to Know Anxiety' eCourse and discover the resources that will get you started. See more tips at his anxiety and panic attack blog Anxiety Headache Blurred Vision

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