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Anyone who is prone to anxiety/ panic attacks need to avoid stimulants.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> I'm not sure what you mean by "prone to anxiety/panic" but I'm not prone to anything.
To reiterate so that you don't misunderstand--I know exactly what the sources of my anxiety and panic attacks are, which I work on with my therapist weekly. I've been making good improvement. My anxiety stems from specific situations.

I should also mention that in ADHD, the right dose/type of stimulants produce a paradoxical effect; that is to say that they do not cause over-stimulation, rather they make a person with ADHD CALMER, MORE RELAXED, AND MORE FOCUSED. Psychiatrists who are educated about ADHD know that. Unfortunately, many psychiatrists are completely uneducated about ADHD (especially in adults).

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I went through timelines and realised that certain meds do increase the attacks, and many of them resemble asthma (one ER thought it was adult onset asthma). I cannot do anti-depressants anymore, because they do increase the attacks. They appeared to make me feel calmer but the incidents of panic increased. I am stuck with benzos. Since I have stopped anything with stimulants, my attacks have decreased dramatically.

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It is well documented in the medical community that panic attacks/high anxiety/strong emotions/stress can cause an asthma attack. Even laughing can cause an asthma attack. It is a well known trigger of an asthma exacerbation.It is also well known that if you have an asthma attack, you can possibly go into a panic attack (it's not hard to see why is it?). However, they are clearly distinct events, and this PDOC was not in the position, nor did he have the knowledge or do the diagnostic testing required to tell me that I don't have asthma. It was also, beside the point. I wasn't having a panic attack in his office either, so there is no correlation between your example and what actually occurred.

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From my own experience, I think your pdoc may have a point, however, he could have expressed this in a better manner.

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No, he didn't have a point that I didn't specifically address. He was argumentative because in his distorted mind, I was challenging his "authority."

As I said, I told the PDOC that while I agree and it is commonly known that stimulants MIGHT cause the side effect of increasing anxiety in SOME people, that I am not one of those. I discussed with him during the previous two appointments, the first one being over an hour (and he was calm as a duck in water). I also told him that I have been on the same dose of stimulants for an entire YEAR, with no anxiety or panic attacks until the specific stressors popped up.

My anxiety stems from specific incidents completely unrelated to asthma or stimulants. Don't confuse the issue either, because stimulants were the focus of his theory, not the asthma (which he claimed it didn't "sound like" I had anyway).