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Social anxiety med questions

Hi, ive had moderate to severe physical symptoms of social anxiety for 10 years now. My symptoms are full body shakes, sweating profusely, heartbeat through the roof, stumbling on words etc

I have used multiple medications and failed so so many.

I’ve taken a lot of SSRIs but ultimately failed them because of IBS issues that got more extreme the longer and more potent the ssri was. (Also taken Effexor)

I was put on propranolol as primary med which was a life saver but had to stop using bc it trigger massive hair loss shedding (I went to derm, did hormone and blood work up all fine, monoxdil used for months did not help)

Hair loss stopped after I stopped using propranolol.

Then Carvedilol, same exact thing

Then amitriptyline same thing

Now I’m on guanfacine and I’m VERY sure same thing is happening.

It would start 1-2 months after consistent use stop 1 month after complete discontinue.

My doctor wants to perscribe benzos. I am extremely extremely against this. I need mediation to function normally almost daily. That is not something I can rely on benzos for.

I’m at the end of my rope, I don’t want to take medication that causes me to lose my hair but when I’m not on medication I get nervous to leave the house.

Does anyone have any mediation they use for physical anxiety that might be able to help me?

(+used gab and prazosin daytime and nighttime dosage didn’t really work) +hydroxyzine as we but didn’t work for my symptoms.

I just want to make clear I’m not looking for a miracle drug, I’m on average a active person but when I’m put in a social situation I literally get extreme body shakes and I can’t even think straight. Sometimes I wouldn’t even know I was nervous until my body shakes and I start sweating. It’s heartbreaking, I really just want to live as close to normal baseline as possible.

Hi, ive had moderate to severe physical symptoms of social anxiety for 10 years now. My symptoms are full body shakes, sweating profusely, heartbeat through the roof, stumbling on words etc

I have used multiple medications and failed so so many.

I’ve taken a lot of SSRIs but ultimately failed them because of IBS issues that got more extreme the longer and more potent the ssri was.

I was put on propranolol as primary med which was a life saver but had to stop using bc it trigger massive hair loss shedding (I went to derm, did hormone and blood work up all fine, monoxdil used for months did not help)

Hair loss stopped after I stopped using propranolol.

Then Carvedilol, same exact thing

Then amitriptyline same thing

Now I’m on guanfacine and I’m VERY sure same thing is happening.

It would start 1-2 months are consistent use of medication and stop 1 month after complete discontinue.

My doctor wants to perscribe benzos. I am extremely extremely against this. I need mediation to function normally almost daily. That is not something I can rely on benzos for.

I’m at the end of my rope, I don’t want to take medication that causes me to lose my hair but when I’m not on medication I get nervous to leave the house.

Does anyone have any mediation they use for physical anxiety that might be able to help me?

(+used gab and prazosin daytime and nighttime dosage didn’t really work)

I just want to make clear I’m not looking for a miracle drug, I’m on average a active person but when I’m put in a social situation I literally get extreme body shakes and I can’t even think straight. Sometimes I wouldn’t even know I was nervous until my body shakes and I start sweating. It’s heartbreaking, I really just want to live as close to normal baseline as possible.

I have moderate to severe physical manifestations of social anxiety. Full body shakes, voice not coming out, sweating profusely etc.

I have tried Hydroxyzine, Zoloft, lexapro, prozac, Paxil, Effexor. All failed: I have ibs and they made my symptoms worse to the point where it was interfering with my day to day. (Daytime and nighttime doses ofc tried)

After failing all of this, I was prescribed propranolol as my main medication. Months later I started to lose a lot of hair. Even after monoxdil, the hair loss did not stop until I discontinued prop use. (We did blood draw labs, hormone checks, went to the derm everything seemed fine besides the hair loss)

I was able to be prescribed carvedilol and then same thing, everything was great until 2 months in and severe hair loss shedding.

Then I started Amitriptyline.Same thing.

Hair loss completely stopped after being off the medications for a couple weeks.

I asked my doctor to be put on guanfacine and it been helping a bit. I’ve been on it for around a month and two days ago I had massive hair loss shedding. This can be a fluke, but I’m just so scared

My doctor wants to prescribe benzos but I am extremely against it. Is there anyone who’s been through this? Any mediations I can possibly try out. Somehow these medications that lower blood pressure seem to really affect my hair

Edit: I’ve tried daytime and night dosage of prazosin + gabapentin (didn’t work for me)