[Mountaindewed]

I went down on my propalanol. Without my doctors permission. I just kept forgetting the 20 milligrams in the AM. A week later I realized I felt much better without it, and I just stuck to the one at night. I’ve been feeling sick to my stomach these past few days. I thought it was caused by my PMS or the heat. I’m now wondering if it’s a withdrawal side effect?

Yeah I know it’s bad to go off meds by myself. I actually took myself completely off a med 2.5 years ago. I googled how to wean myself off it. It happened to be one of the best decisions I ever made. And I had zero side effects and I felt much better off it then on it.

I haven’t taken my Ativan in a couple weeks, so my anxiety is actually less without the morning 20.

I don’t feel like mentioning this to my doctor. I hate psychiatrists so I don’t really care that I’m going against what they are saying. I feel like I know what I’m doing.

Does anyone have any suggestions or comments?

[downandlonely]

I don't think propanlol causes withdrawals. I was on it for a while, but it made my blood pressure too low and I would get dizzy. I think I stopped cold turkey and didn't have problems.

[*Laurie*]

Everyone is different of course. For me, I was on Proponalol for about 2 years when my GP took me off of it. I just stopped taking it. Didn't have any withdrawal effects at all.

[88Butterfly88]

I take Propranolol as needed. I was taking max of 30 mg a day for a while and then pdoc cut it back to 20 mg (due to dizziness) and there were no issues. Anxiety itself can cause one to feel sick to one's stomach. I don't know if lack of Ativan would do it, I didn't take that med long enough to know.

[Wonderfalls]

Yeah, I take 80mg of it for akathisia. I was taking a different beta blocker before for a PVC. It's a pretty benign drug as far as drugs used in psychiatry go. If you were taking it for high blood pressure then stopping it could affect that, though 20mg would be a pretty low dose for something like that. I think it's unlikely that you're in withdrawal. Without knowing what you're taking it for it's pretty hard to guess what not taking it would do.

[*Laurie*]

Boz, how are you doing?

[Mountaindewed]

I feel fine.

[*Laurie*]

That's great!

[Mountaindewed]

My doctor said my heartbeat is high. But I don’t feel any anxiety from going down on the med. but my heart has been racing for awhile now. Sometimes I wake up with chest pains and my heart racing.

Today was kinda bad. I was working in a room that must have been about 90 degrees and no fans. I was wearing heavy Levi’s and heavy work gloves. 15 minutes into my shift I was sweating. I had chest pains and I was so hot. I felt like I was going to have a heart attack. Plus I had to keep climbing on top of something and then over it to get to my equipment.

But my anxiety is fine so I don’t know??