Klarinet Archive - Posting 000791.txt from 1997/07

From: ICarpenter@-----.com
Subj: Re: Inderal (sp?)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 07:00:47 -0400

The leading fear in America is not of growing old or dying; it's of public
speaking. I think someone who does not have the severe anxiety of being put
on the spot in public often has a difficult time fathoming the turmoil this
causes for an anxious person. Often a pounding heart, tremulousness, a
cracking voice or flushing will cause the episode of anxiety to worsen, in
something of a vicious cycle. I'm a practicing internist and have found
propanolol very useful for controlling debilitating symptoms of anxiety in
several such persons. Side effects tend to be dose dependent and the dose
generally does not need to be escalated for symptoms related to anxiety the
way it does for hypertension. It is also non-addicting. Perhaps your
colleagues who had untoward effects were given too high a dose.

Matt

   
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