Clonidine (Captares): A benzodiazepine alternative
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- In this video, we discuss the medication clonidine and its use in anxiety. Oftentimes providers will use a medication like clonidine as opposed to a benzodiazepine since clonidine is not addicting. However, it is important to remember that even clonidine comes with risks and in my opinion, should only be used short-term or sparingly as needed.
Intro 0:00
What is clonidine? 0:31
What is clonidine used for? 1:43
How long does clonidine take to work? 2:23
Is clonidine addicting? 2:50
What are the side effects of clonidine? 03:41
Drug interactions with clonidine 5:30
Final thoughts on clonidine 07:10
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Great video, love your content! My personal experience with Clonidine has been great. I told my doctor a few years ago I wanted an alternative to benzos because I worried about relying on them too much. It’s been really great as a prn. The only thing I don’t love is the dry mouth 😝 but it’s a small price to pay for a med I only take once in awhile 👍🏻
Clonidine 0.1 brought my bp down for awhile. Last week they increased it to 0.2 mg. I immediately started getting very ill. Was admitted to ER last weekend with a bp of 288! The heart clinic had also added Carvedilol 12.5 mg. to regiment. Finally I refused to keep taking as prescribed and now beginning to recover. For a week now I have been very weak and shaky. At one point was holding on to the walls trying to go from room to room. Be very cautious taking Clonidine. No, I have been on benzos in the past, do not compare that to this medication. 😢
Have a nice Sunday Jezel❤😊..thanks for my advice :)
You're welcome 😊
I've been on this for 2 weeks for critical high blood pressure but I'm scared now of that rebound crisis,can i wean off this??
Thank you so much. I have a question, which is the best form for reducing anxiety symptoms, IR or XR of Clonidine?
Based off what she said .1-.2 ir is for anxiety
Could you do a video on a lack of response of stimulants? I tried Adderall, focalin, and Concerta and none of them had an effect on me yet Wellbutrin a non stimulant is doing wonders for me
Could you please do a video on Clozapine. Thank you.
Thanks for the video idea. I will consider it.
Thank you as always. Can this be used with effexor? Happy Sunday.💙💙
Yes it can be. Oftentimes that combo is used for patients who don't tolerate the norepinephrine increase or have increased heart rate with Effexor. It can also help with anxiety.
@@LevelheadedMind how do you know if you have an increase in norepinephrine? Thank you in advance. I may speak to my psychiatrist about it.
I’m on 225 mg of effexor and use Clonidine as needed. It’s been extremely effective! 😊
@@skigirlcaroline thank you for the response.. How long have you been on that dose of effexor? In on 187.5. may need to move up. Also how does clonidine make you feel?
Im falling asleep and can't walk very far without holding on to something not to fall. Feeling not right and slurred speech. Taking it for high blood pressure for almost a week now. This is not the way to live! Dry eyes and dry mouth. Slight headache sometimes.
This allows your blood vessels to relax and your heart to beat more slowly and easily.
Video on prazosin please
Zanaflex or the generic Tizanidine, the muscle relaxer works similar to Clonidine.
Tizanidine makes my bp go up several points. Guess these meds affect different people differently.
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Tizanidine is very similar to clonidine, although it's more used for spasticity and muscle pain.
What if you just choose to be on a benzo cause you don't feel these drugs work well enough? If you're on Klonopin for 8 years like I was these pills are useless against panic attacks that make you feel like you're going to die. They might help like 10% and that's about it. Do we as patients have that right to go back on a drug if we were on them before and they worked?
Technically you don’t have a “right” to any medication, especially controlled meds like benzodiazepines.
@@kss3837 yeah you sound like all the idiot doctors and naive people. There are a ton of psychiatrists right here on RUclips that say the best way to come off these drugs is to slowly taper, not to detox in 5 days or 10 days. You really have no idea what kind of struggles people go through that get taken off these drugs too soon. Do you know the effects? Or are you just a hater? Why are you looking up videos about clonidine which is a blood pressure pill?
What barbiturates are still prescribed in the US?
i know you can still get butalbital acetaminophen sometimes caffeine mix for migraines or headaches
Phenobarbital and the butalbital like the person above me said. I think my cousin gets those caffeine ones for headache.
The last I heard about the one remaining strong barbiturate, secobarbital (Seconal), is that the most recent pharma company to buy its rights has since ceased production. There are no generic versions available.
Could you do a video about Vyvanse? :)
I’ve been taking Clonidine for 5+ years it has no affect on me for anxiety. At least I don’t think it does.
Then why take it for 5+ years if it doesn't work?
@@lachousalle31 because it maybe working for other things like blood pressure! Notice they say it "doesn't work on me for anxiety" .
Was given clonidine years ago. Was told took it WITH my benzo. Ruined that from working for me!
Clomipramine please!!!! 🙏🏼
I think they are potentially abusable, like xylazine, (remarkable enough), although it's probably not having similar adverse effects..
Can we take lower dose for ADHD occasionally
Yes. Discuss this use with your doctor.
Prazosin, for PTSD and nightmares?
It works great but higher doses I almost fell a few times from being light headed. The cool thing is it sort of reset me. Even not taking it now my sleep is more even. Disturbing and frantic nightmares are few and far between.
Doesnt help my anxiety much and definitely not hot fashes. I get dry mouth taking 0.1 mg
Try propranolol.
Thought this was about Klonopin. They really need to change the name of one of these.
My doctor would rather have me on five medicines instead of just one Klonopin like I used to be on that solved all this problems and then some.
Same here, I don't trust doctors at all anymore, it's more about money than actually curing people imo
yeah me too
Yes, most Dr don't these days can't think for there self
@@JamesHobart-tb6ik very true, it's like they are so afraid of someone overdosing even though I was on them and my methadone got years with no problems. They work so hard for their license and then are afraid to prescribe what actually helps people. Then that leads to people buying stuff off the streets which nowadays is ten times more dangerous than the thing they are afraid to prescribe you. I mean these psychiatrists don't even know about protracted withdrawal syndrome. They'll just spend 5 minutes with you and put you on a ssri, which sorry, that don't help anxiety. Serotonin has nothing to do with the gaba receptors. I literally feel like I know more than these people nowadays. I got the same access to research they have.
@@EdwardBose it's all they know from their lessons at big pharma inc...lol.
It didn’t do anything for my anxiety
Clonidine is good for ADHD
The “ boorish clicking g” is beyond Nnoyingy
I've studied psychiatry since I was 17 and have tried ALMOST everything out there...clonodine doesn't help anxiety. I don't think anything truly HELPS it hurts you in the end unless you have an educated Dr like Dr jezel Rosa to properly give medications for actual disorders. I was given very high dosages of all kinds of stuff I NEVER NEEDED! And I'm upset cuz my Dr has harmed me and I dont know what to do about that
The only thing you can do is keep spreading the message.
I took vast amounts of prescription medication in an attempt to overcome my anxiety but in the long run it only made it worse.
Luckily there's been so much backlash over the years that Drs are finally being held accountable and suggesting other alternatives rather than strong medication.
Try listening to Binaural beats and sleep hypnosis. Sometimes it's not necessarily medication that you need
I think substances may help with many of the symptoms associated with anxiety.. I don't know. I've hardly suffered from what I'd call anxiety, (I don't count fear).
False. I’ve tried just about everything for severe GAD and Panic Disorder and Clonidine works better than benzos for me and a lot of other people.
@@ivantrump4022 that's great!!!!!! I'm so glad!!!! Do u get dizzy spells/fainting from it?
Propranolol is better for Anxiety
Jesus you all make me feel NORMAL. and i have had the EXTREME Health Anxiety and generalized anxiety for 17 months now. . You dont need meds.u need to coach your mind. You are all destroying yourselves. Lay off meds
Horrible drug. Got chronic insomnia from using it and my hands and feet have become freezing. Had to discontinue after gradually tapering off. There has to be a better way...
Yes and I'm RANGER CAPTIAN KRISTOFFERSON us army and I have a controlled substance license a I can't even get my one medicine
Yes I'm RANGER CAPTIAN KRISTOFFERSON us army my daddy is major general KRISTOFFERSON us airforce and I can't even get my blood pressure medication strongneguff