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Dec 23, 2015, 05:54 PM
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My GP prescribed hydroxyzine for anxiety. Anyone have experience with this med?
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Dec 23, 2015, 10:14 PM
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It's very mild but it helps take the edge off when my anxiety is really bad
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Dec 23, 2015, 11:27 PM
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Does not help my anxiety/insomnia whatsoever but I keep some on hand for poison ivy.
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Dec 23, 2015, 11:44 PM
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It is actually an antihisamine that gets used for other reasons. My son took it for anxiety at one point. Dr. explained they prefer it for minors over benzos because it is milder and doesn't have the dependency risk. I have been given it actually for its anti-nausea qualities.
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Dec 24, 2015, 01:01 AM
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I've been taking it on and off since 2013. As others have said, it takes a little of the edge off my bad anxiety attacks. But it doesn't make you feel "good" as a benzo would.
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Dec 24, 2015, 02:28 AM
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Didn't help. But Benadryl does! At least Benadryl is over the counter.
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Dec 24, 2015, 09:10 AM
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I have taken it PRN for anxiety for 2-3 years. It was very helpful in 2014 when I was lowering my Cymbalta dose from 120 mg/day to 60 mg/day, because I had a moderate discontinuation syndrome.
I was surprised that it helped, to be honest. I would take just 25 or 50 mg/day. One thing I really don't like about it is that it's very drying. If you live in a dry climate, this can make it problematic. Dry mouth, dry eyes, dry nasal passages. Also, some people get headaches from it. I did when I first started taking it, but they went away as my body adjusted to it. It has stopped working for me sometime during the last six months or so. I took some about a month ago and it did absolute nothing for my anxiety. I have tried it a couple of times again since then and again, nothing. No idea why. It's a fairly mild anxiolytic in my opinion. I was glad to have it when I was doing the Cymbalta taper, though, because since I already take clonazepam, it wasn't like I had that many options for meds for anxiety. |
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Dec 24, 2015, 06:58 PM
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Thank you all. I've been taking the Vistiril for 2 days and it seems to act just as most of you have described...takes the sharp, jagged edge off my anxiety. Right now, I'm very grateful for that. I can see where it would be the kind of med that would stop working after a while, though.
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Dec 24, 2015, 07:45 PM
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hi Laruabeth,
im currently taking Vistrail for anxiety. to me it works wonders for me w my anxiety and my sleep .
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Dec 29, 2015, 01:30 PM
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I took vistiril for months when the doc I was seeing didn't prescribe benzos. I found it to be moderately affective. Like others have said it takes the jagged edge off. I also used it for sleep.
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