Dude.... please do me a favour.........
Buy some extra B vitamins and a B nutrient called INOSITOL...................... it is very effective in MANY people against panic attacks and associated depression.... it enabled me to cut my Anti-dep dose too a very small dose...... (Yes, this is an Anabolic chat site - and I am a BodyBuilder - just helping a bro with something that might help him)
Read
http://www.mvelectric.com/inositol/panic.htm
www.biopsychiatry.com/inositol
also, just put in Inositol in the Google search engine....
The stuff comes you down better than any anti-depressant................
try between 1g and 20g a day............ (20g may make you sleepy)
Inositol works to enhance the action of the neurotransmitters - serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine.......
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Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Crossover Trial of Inositol Treatment for Panic Disorder
Jonathan Benjamin, M.D., Joseph Levine, M.D., M.Sc., Mendel Fux, M.D., Alex Aviv, M.D., Daniel Levy, M.D., and R.H. Belmaker, M.D.
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OBJECTIVE: Because they found in an earlier study that inositol, an important intracellular second-messenger precursor, was effective against depression in open and double-blind trials, the authors studied its effectiveness against panic disorder. METHOD: Twenty-one patients with panic disorder with or without agoraphobia completed a double-blind, placebo-controlled 4-week, random-assignment crossover treatment trial of 12 g/day of inositol. RESULTS: The frequency and severity of panic attacks and the severity of agoraphobia declined significantly more after inositol than after placebo administration. Side effects were minimal. CONCLUSIONS: The authors conclude that inositol's efficacy, the absence of significant side effects, and the fact that inositol is a natural component of the human diet make it a potentially attractive therapeutic for panic disorder. (Am J Psychiatry 1995; 152:1084-1086)
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Inositol is an isomer of glucose and a natural constituent of the normal human diet (1). Interest in inositol accelerated with the discovery of the phosphatidyl-inositol cycle. The phosphatidyl-inositol cycle is a second-messenger system used by some noradrenergic alpha 1 and serotonin 2 receptors, among others. Kofman and Belmaker (2) showed that pharmacological doses of inositol have behavioral effects in animals. Twelve g/day of inositol penetrates the blood-brain barrier in man (3). Acting on a report that inositol CSF levels are low in depressed patients (4), we found that inositol in doses of 6 g/day and 12 g/day is a potential treatment for depression in both open and double-blind, placebo- controlled trials (5). Because some antidepressants are also effective against panic disorder, we decided to conduct a trial of inositol treatment for panic disorder.