Anxiety

[Pixelpixie]

my tremors make me more anxious. (And raise my BP) What have you found to reduce your anxiety? Thanks!

[docjleonard55]

Yoga Nidra mediation helps me reduce my anxiety and therefore my tremor. I usually do a 20 minute meditation. Interestingly, my tremor completely stops during the meditation most of the time. Unfortunately it comes back, albeit, after the mediation. I use You Tube to find the videos, and I'm partial to the ones by Elena Mironov.

[SallyBeeBobs]

I take Propranolol. Helps with anxiety and tremor.

[SallyBeeBobs in reply to SallyBeeBobs]

It actually lowers blood pressure too!

[Pixelpixie]

thank you. I’ll look into it

[Lorraine33]

my hwp was given 30 mg mirtazipine before bed

[LAJ12345 in reply to Lorraine33]

that wasn’t good for my husband. I think it is dangerous in a younger person and probably best for very elderly patients where it is ok to sit all day and do nothing. In my opinion it accelerated my husbands pd by making him so dozy he wouldn’t do anything.

[Lorraine33 in reply to LAJ12345]

My husband works and drives. it’s not for everyone

[Pixelpixie in reply to LAJ12345]

Thanks but although”elderly,” I never sit all

Day and do nothing. I’m vigorously active

[LAJ12345 in reply to Pixelpixie]

Mirtazapine turned my active mid fifty year old husband into someone who wouldn't get out of bed or do anything except sit in a chair and stare at the tv. And he lost interest in doing anything. That's when the PD symptoms started.

When I say elderly I mean the ones you see in a rest home staring into space doing nothing. Sorry if I offended you. I was referring to the behavior not age in years as you can be advanced in years but young in behavior

[puretone]

Magnesium Glycinate 665 (120mg elemental) 3x a day with meals seems to help my partner with anxiety and sleep. She's also taking sertraline (zoloft) which seems to help after a very long settling-in time with multiple side effects.

[Allypally49 in reply to puretone]

Can you elaborate on the Sertraline as my WWP has it raised from 50mg to 75mg last week as it didn't seem to have made any difference to her anxiety

[puretone in reply to Allypally49]

My partner started on 50 mg about five months ago due to really debilitating anxiety. The first 8 to 10 weeks were hell to be honest, a few physical side effects and no real impact on her anxiety, maybe a slight worsening. Also loss of appetite and a worsening of insomnia, her weight loss was pretty dramatic. But in the last two or three weeks I'm noticing she's calmer and better able to concentrate. Appetite has returned and sleep has improved although she has reintroduced B1 and upped her magnesium intake concurrently. As usual with this damned disease it can be hard to tell which meds and supplements are beneficial.

[DEAT in reply to Allypally49]

Allypally49

I am on 150mg of Zoloft.

(Generic Sertraline)

When I was DX 2015 I began on 50 mg which did nothing. Increased to 100mg and that was the start of feeling better once it kicked in (a few weeks)

My anxiety improved greatly. I eventually ended up on 150mg and have been on that dose for years.

I cannot tell you what a difference it has made to my life. I was at times so anxious I couldn't deal with PD.

Once the Zoloft got anxiety under control everything changed. I could live happily again.

I still get anxious at times but now it's for a reason.

[Allypally49 in reply to DEAT]

Thanks for that info and now WWP, hopefully, can get the benefit in a couple of weeks, although the dosage may still need to increase.

[LAJ12345]

what meds are you on?

Too much ssri or dopamine make my husband more anxious.

Clonazapam in a very low dose takes the edge off (0.5 mg cut into quarters and spread over day. Also inositol can help, or gaba or rhodiola rosea might work.

It’s a constant problem for us.

[Deforel_Ch]

Search "Lithium Orotate" in the posts.

[Catlady47001]

I do daily facial maneuvers. Look up Human Garage

[richardo123]

I have been using a natural product that I was just introduced to. L-theanine . IT is a calming

[richardo123]

L-THEANINE. IS A NATURAL product I used for about a month and have been experiencing great success. It can be purchased at COSTCO . It has a calming effect. Aw

[Lizzy9]

I give my HwP Bened Life Neuralli PS138 probiotic. It’s expensive but worth the cost. Recently I took him off and in about a month tremor, anxiety and trouble sleeping returned. I got him back on it and there were improvements beginning in less than a week. He still isn’t back to where he was, but is much better.

It took about 2 ½ month when he first started taking it before we noticed improvements.

He does take a lot of other medication & supplements too. Right now we have him on a good regimen. I have learned to leave everything alone if he’s doing great!!! Tough lesson!!!

Good luck and God bless

[Pixelpixie in reply to Lizzy9]

Thx. I had tried that. Maybe I didn’t give it enough time

[paperchasing]

Propanalol

[glassman1]

My anxiety was crippling. I never suffered from anxiety before. It was the first symptom of my PD onset but wasn't recognized until I started losing motor skills. I was initially put on Prozac with as needed Xanax. I started Stamet's Stack last year ( a psilocybin micro dose protocol). My anxiety and depression are no longer an issue and I stopped taking Prozac and Xanax three weeks after beginning Stamet's Stack. I don't know if this works for anyone else but it was a game changer for me.

[Pixelpixie in reply to glassman1]

How would I find that?