Posted by pablo1 on July 12, 2004, at 23:57:35
In reply to Re: doctors defintly would not prescribe it for anxiet » 1980Monroe, posted by green willow on July 12, 2004, at 22:24:53
Why don't you want to try it? I'll answer my reasons if I had been in your position: because it's ridiculously expensive, you'd have to take it forever and it only lasts half the night and lastly because it might leave you with worse insomnia if you couldn't afford it any more.
I'd try it just for the chance to enjoy relaxation for a while but I'm a pot head so there's your grain of salt to go with that! Anxiety is such a damn ever-present thing for me, it'd be nice to be unburdened for a while without a hangover. I get the sense that it has a bit of relaxing effect even after it wears off at therapeutic doses. If I were you, I'd be all over that scrip! Think of all the preposterous side-effects of antidepressants and opiates that are prescribed for sleep and anxiety then imagine simply feeling good. I'd choose simply feeling good in a minute. Nothing wrong with feeling good. Why should we have to suffer the psychosis of antidepressants for a bit of relief? Why anesthesize ourselves into a stupor for a night's sleep?
Feelings of compassion and willing free flowing emotions followed by deep satisfying full sleep followed by a bit more energy. Hell yes, I'd be all over that scrip!
What possible excuses could they be thinking that it's not appropriate treatment for anxiety? A bunch of damn puritans I tell you!
http://www.biopsychiatry.com/ghb/authentic.html
(yes I realize this guy was way wrong saying there is no potential for addiction)"You may feel uncurable dysphoria with suicidal ideation, anxiety, etc, and think that no medicine or no one could help you until you try gamma-hydroxybutyrate! Afterwards you might just think how crazy you were and feel how life is beautiful and deserves to be lived and enjoyed! Gamma-hydroxybutyrate strongly stimulates the desire to be and to remain alive despite unfavourable circumstances. No conventional so-called antidepressant does that."
Give it a try and let us know how it goes. That's my advice. You lucky dog.
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> My sleep doc actually did prescribe it for me for insomnia, but I am leary to try it. I had to get clearance by someone much higher up in America than I am, and my scrip is presently "inactive" somewhere in some office in the midwest, since I have not jumped for it. My sleep doc says he has not yet used it for insomnia, only narcolepsy, but since it collectifies sleep, that is where he was coming from. FDA has not approved it for insomnia.
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