Posted by bulldog2 on November 10, 2008, at 10:23:07
In reply to Re: Help for anxiety-related facial blushing, posted by jwpaine on November 7, 2008, at 17:46:53
> Still struggling with this problem.... just had a mild anxiety attack while talking to my sister who I haven't seen for about 2 months. I am on Paxil 20mg - I tried propranolol but it did not help at all with the fight-or-flight reaction to the situation: face turning red, sweating...which is the catalyst for even more anxiety.
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> Any more thoughts?
> Thank you all for your help thus far.I really feel for you. This curse changed the course of my life. Couldn't speak in front of any groups of people anywhere anytime. Had to leave teaching because of the curse. Had to hold jobs where I worked alone. If I had enough time to prepare for a speaking event I would load myself with klonopin and clonidine which helped somewhat. But not a good long term solution as I could do my work zombified on massive doses of klonopin. Problem became so bad sometimes a person visiting my cube would trigger a blushing panic attack. What made things worse were comments about my beet red face. Once someone called me a coward for blushing. All those thoughtless cruel comments.
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