Thread: "real" vs. "psychological" attacks
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Old 03-17-2008, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Erin524 View Post
What medication were you on? Is it possible that you were having withdrawal symptoms? Weaning yourself off of some medications can cause anxiety and panic attacks. Stopping some medications without weaning yourself slowly off the medication can cause some serious withdrawal symptoms.
I was on mestinon at high doses. Mestinon is an anti-acytalcholenesterase inhibitor (meaning it stops the break down of Acytlcholene). The neuros think i was having significant withdrawl sx from the sudden discontinuation. I don't disagree. I sure hope that is all this is!
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