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[the_rck]

Given that Scott’s home and awake this afternoon, I’m trying that new medication now. It’s metoprolol tartrate 25 mg. I’m both trying to see if I’ll have side effects from it and if it will help with my current anxiety. My psychiatrist wasn’t particularly optimistic that it would because the main thing the medication does is to make it impossible for one’s heart to speed up. That’s not actually one of my physical anxiety symptoms. I get headaches and muscle tension in my neck and shoulders (and jaw and arms and legs and…) and nausea and intestinal issues. I get really, really tired, too.

I’m having some level of anxiety about the nutritionist appointment tomorrow (both about leaving the house and about the difficulties of explaining the layers of reasons for what I eat when and what I don’t). I’m not actually optimistic about the appointment being useful, but maybe I’m wrong.

This new medication has to be taken with food which will limit its usefulness as an emergency anxiety thing because I’ll only be able to take it if I have food on hand. I can probably find something I can stick in my purse that won’t go bad too quickly. Most of the options I can come up with are things that either aren’t good for me or will only last for a two or three weeks before needing to be replaced.

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[lunabee34]

*hugs*

I hope this will work for you.

[the_rck]

Thanks!

[retsuko]

I take that stuff, exact same dosage, in order to keep my heart rate low. I didn't know it had psych uses as well!

As for side effects, it didn't do too much for me, except for the ubiquitous weird dreams that I always seem to get with any med these days. It did work as intended, though, and made my doc temporarily less frowny, so yay for that!

[the_rck]

Well, racing heart can be a big anxiety thing, particularly for acute anxiety. My impression is that some people feel less anxious without that.

[retsuko]

It has definitely lowered my anxiety over heart stuff, that's for sure. A lot of people in my family are on it, especially on my Dad's side. Hope it works for you!

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

I'll keep a good thought that the nutritionist appointment proves more useful than expected.

I put Kind bars in my purse for when I'm feeling like my blood sugar is getting a low and if I haven't eaten it before its expiration date I throw it into my husband's lunch bag and he'll eat it for dessert.

[the_rck]

Thanks!

Kind bars are more expensive than I want to go with.