# Best anti-anxiety medication that worked for you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 4, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-anti-anxiety-medication-that-worked-for-you/642931 "2012-12-04T04:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![figure9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@figure9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/figure9)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-anti-anxiety-medication-that-worked-for-you/642931/41 "2012-12-08T18:45:46Z")
Although not a medication, a good therapist can be effective against anxiety. ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-anti-anxiety-medication-that-worked-for-you/642931/42 "2012-12-09T23:30:03Z")
I’m having good luck with Xanax. I started with 2mg/day in April. My prescriber however recently dropped me down to 1mg, and I do feel something of a difference. I have been picking on myself and a bit more nervous. She was worried I was getting “too complacent”. I’m going to be seeing someone new from now on. I’m not getting “complacent”; I’m depressed! My prescriber did say that 2mg/day is considered a high dosage. Maybe you could start at 1mg/day and see how you tolerate it? Take notes before you go to the doctor, so you don’t forget anything. I find that if I don’t bring notes with me, my prescriber tends to steamroller right over me. Good luck, and I hope you feel better soon! ---
**Author:** ![Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speak_to_me_Maddie)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-anti-anxiety-medication-that-worked-for-you/642931/43 "2012-12-09T23:53:55Z")
Inderal has been excellent for me as a prophylactic. If I take it well before situations that typically cause attacks it does very well at stopping that negative feedback loop that leads to full blown attacks. Alcohol and opiates are the only two things that completely eliminae anxiety in my experience, but using them regularly causes far worse problems than the anxiety, and both lose their effectiveness over time. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-anti-anxiety-medication-that-worked-for-you/642931/44 "2012-12-10T11:56:22Z")
> [@figure9](#): > > Although not a medication, a good therapist can be effective against anxiety. Until the bill comes in the mail. ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-anti-anxiety-medication-that-worked-for-you/642931/45 "2012-12-11T03:40:50Z")
and if life is just a highway…then the soul is just a car… ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-anti-anxiety-medication-that-worked-for-you/642931/46 "2012-12-23T08:18:20Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > I’m having a lot of luck with 200 mg Zoloft and 1 mg. Risperidone. My psychiatrist is switching me to Geodon instead for the antipsychotic because he thinks it will help more with the dissociative episodes, but I have little daily anxiety with what I’m taking. I hope it doesn’t change. Just as an update, I’m already loving Geodon. It makes me not think about food. I don’t have tics and there’s very little of that simmering state of anxiety I’ve been in for so long. I sleep really well and have what I think is a normal amount of energy. I’ve had a really great week! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-anti-anxiety-medication-that-worked-for-you/642931.md?page=2)