Friday, September 11, 2009

Treatment Available With Xanax For Anxiety Attack

By Joe Z. Wright

Most of the people have an anxiety attack at some point of time in life. Its symptoms are fast heart beat, trouble in recollecting things. People may attribute these symptoms to other ailments, but generally anxiety is the prime reason.

Nowadays several remedies are available in the market to cure the anxiety attacks. Most of the doctors prescribe these remedies to make the people feel comfortable who are suffering from such attacks. Among all those medicines the most popular one is Benzodiazepines.

In the beginning Barbiturates, such as Phenobarbital were mostly prescribed by the doctors for the treatment of anxiety. However, nowadays the usage of this medication is avoided by many people. The reason for this is due to their nature of getting the person addicted to it very fast.

The most commonly used medication for anxiety attack is Benzodiazepines. These medications are tranquilizers which help the sufferers get in to sleep and also relax their muscles due to increased effect of gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) which is a sort of neurotransmitter that slow downs the receptiveness of the human's nervous system. As these medications are tranquilizers which are very addictive to human nature; the usage should be strictly under the proper consultation of doctors. The frequent consultations are very essential. The intake of overdose is very harmful to the body, but they are not that dangerous as Barbiturates. The usage of Benzodiazepines should be strictly forbidden along with alcohol as they highly increase the effect and are very injurious to the body.

The doctor should be consulted frequently. An overdose of these medicines is very harmful for the patient, but they are less dangerous than Barbiturates. Alcohol should not be consumed while using Benzodiazepines as it can increase the effect of the medicine and be very harmful to the body.

There are some side effects of these medications as well. The most common side effects which such medications have in the body are - they create drowsiness in the body; the functioning of mental system is reduced and also sometimes they make the person unaware of his body actions. Thus, there are some harmful effects of these medications as well which the person using them must keep in mind.

Apart from this, some side effects are also associated with this drug. The most common side effects of this drug reported by the patients include the reduced functioning of mental system, drowsiness and the most important one sometimes these remedies make patients unaware about their body actions. Therefore, there are some harmful effects of this medicine too which must be considered in mind before ingesting them.

The patients, who are ingesting this drug, should never ingest them for a long period of time. It is so because the withdrawal effects of this remedy also influence several harmful changes in the body. These withdrawal symptoms include depression, difficulty in sleeping and the feeling of hearing false sound like ringing in the ear. In some rare cases, patients also complain about headache, which is due to over dosage of this medicine Xanax.

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