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Originally Posted by Ammi
…what were you prescribed the Propranolol for, Redway…that’s cool if it’s too personal a question….but it can be prescribed for multiple things so I was interested as to what you’re feeling it isn’t so effective with …but yeah, obviously we can build up resistances as well and long term taking of a particular medication can cause negative impacts as well…which is one of the reasons for regular reviews, obviously…
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I’ll tell ya over PM but it’s for the same thing I used it for 11-ish years ago. It worked then but my body’s just outgrown it.
Someone said to me once that people who sweat a lot (like me; my hyperhidrosis is a mad ting) could benefit from propranolol but I think that’s only in the case whose excessive sweating is, like, a peripheral manifestation of anxiety. For people with primary hyperhidrosis (like moi), beta blockers don’t seem to be the answer. Atenolol (another beta-blocker), again, did nothing for me in the sweat-department, but then I only took so much of that. Maybe if I was on the maximum dose or something closer to it I would’ve benefited from it in that regard but if propranolol didn’t work, I don’t see how atenolol would. There’s a beta-blockers called pindolol which, for various reasons, seems like it would suit me a lot better than either of the other two beta-blockers but it’s scarcely available in the UK. That’s my problem.