The modern pace of life seems so hectic and hectic that sometimes we just need stimulants. For some, these are narcotic drugs, which, of course, a normal person cannot approve of. And for some, these are psychotropic drugs, or daytime tranquilizers. Why do we need them? How do they work? Many are interested in the side effects and the possibility of addiction. Who can help answer these questions?
What is this?
Let's consider the very concept of "daytime tranquilizers". What is it and what does it "eat" with? It has already been said that these are psychotropic drugs indicated for the treatment and elimination of anxiety, fear and anxiety, as well as emotional tension. At the same time, the drugs do not impair cognitive function. Any pharmacist can take a brief tour of the world of tranquilizers, but he can't sell most of them without a prescription.
Today, daytime tranquilizers are still compared with anxiolytics. These are just the means that relieve the feeling of fear and tension. Previously, they were called "small tranquilizers", but the "large" ones are antipsychotics, that is, drugs that have a sedative and hypnotic effect.
Daytime tranquilizers are prescribed for the treatment of many diseases, so their use can never be a symptom of a nervous condition or severe tension.
From history
In 1951, a modern tranquilizer, Meprobamate, was synthesized for the first time. It is used for neurosis, irritability, affective tension and sleep disorders. It is also indicated for increased muscle tone, joint diseases. But in psychiatric practice, this drug is ineffective. But because of its lightness, "Meprobamat" is good for vegetative dystonia, PMS, menopause, hypertension, ulcers. In surgery, it is used to prepare for operations, as well as to reduce muscle tension.
The effect of drugs
So how can daytime tranquilizers help? Preparations can be divided, taking as a basis the main function. They may have sedative, hypnotic, anxiolytic, muscle relaxant, and anticonvulsant effects.
Let's try to analyze the preparations of each group:
- For example, anxiolytic action is the reduction of fear, anxiety and anxiety. Such mild daytime tranquilizers are prescribed for obsessive thoughts, increased suspiciousnessabout your he alth.
- Sedative drugs are characterized by a decrease in excitability, a decrease in concentration and reaction speed.
- The hypnotic effect of drugs is expressed in facilitating the onset of sleep, increasing its depth and duration.
- Finally, the muscle relaxant effect is the relaxation of the skeletal muscles. Preparations of this group relieve motor tension, eliminate convulsions.
It should be remembered that in groups, tranquilizers can enhance the effect of each other or neutralize it. So the intake should follow the doctor's prescription. It's not that hard to get, given that the drugs are used for all kinds of anxiety disorders.
It is not recommended to drink alcohol when using funds, as it increases the effect on the central nervous system, which can be accompanied by severe side effects.
How are daytime tranquilizers prescribed?
Psychotropic drugs can only be bought with a prescription, but some drugs are banned in some countries. An example is Phenazepam. If a person who suffers from insomnia, unreasonable fear or other nervous conditions consults a doctor, the doctor may recommend home methods for relieving tension (baths, auto-training, massage) or prescribe daytime tranquilizers. Specialists have a list of drugs available for sale in various pharmacies, so it will help to orientate even at the place of a potential purchase.
With helptranquilizers, the patient calms down and relaxes. The feeling of anxiety passes, sleep normalizes, but you need to remember that tranquilizers do not help with a mental disorder.
When not?
There are cases when daytime tranquilizers are prohibited for the patient. The list of drugs that cause addiction, every doctor knows and understands who can be prescribed a course, and who can only get worse problems. Especially dangerous are drugs of this group for children and adolescents, as well as for women during pregnancy and lactation.
Possible side effects: drowsiness, lethargy, sluggish concentration. Therefore, tranquilizers are not prescribed to drivers. Also in the forbidden group are people with alcohol addiction, drug addicts and the elderly.
Classification of tranquilizers
How can a group of tranquilizers be classified? First of all, one should abandon the stereotypes that wander among ordinary people who are unfamiliar with such drugs. It's no secret that tranquilizers can be compared to drugs because of their effect on the nervous system. But this is another matter, because the task of drugs is not to excite activity and cause a hallucinogenic effect, but to calm, relieve nervous tension and drive away hallucinations.
Strong tranquilizers can be distinguished. These include benzodiazepine derivatives: Lorafen, Nozepam and Seduxen; derivatives of diphenylmethane, for example "Atarax"; tranquilizers of different chemical groups: "Afobazol", "Proroxan",Mebicar.
The small ones are daytime tranquilizers. These are derivatives of the benzodiazepine Rudotel and Grandaxin, as well as other groups, for example, Spitomin.
The main property of all tranquilizers without exception is a decrease in mental activity without disturbing consciousness. That is, no memory lapses, uncontrolled actions and other deviations from the norm. This function of tranquilizers is achieved by suppressing the limbic system of the brain and enhancing the action of the inhibitory neurotransmitter.
So, what is the strongest daytime tranquilizer? This question interests many doctors and, of course, patients. There is the largest group - benzodiazepines. Among them, "Lorazepam" and "Phenozepam" are distinguished by a powerful effect.
When performing work requiring increased attention, you can use drugs such as Grandaxin, Oxazepam, Medazepam and Gidazepam. They do not have a sedative effect, and do not cause dependence.
For example
If you describe the daytime tranquilizer "Grandaxin", then you need to highlight its anxiolytic effect. It is an effective psychovegetative regulator that eliminates various forms of autonomic disorders and stimulates activity. Due to the presence of a muscle relaxant effect, the drug can be used to treat patients with myopathy and myasthenia gravis. It is non-addictive in small doses.
Many users used the Grandaxin daytime tranquilizer. Reviews indicate that there is an effect, and it can be called sparing, since patients did not experience discomfort and side effects. More positively, the drug was described by female workaholics who really need some stimulation of activity.
But the daytime tranquilizer "Adaptol" helps to eliminate anxiety, anxiety and fear. It affects the activity of the areas of the brain responsible for the emergence of emotions. Against the background of a sedative effect, the drug does not cause feelings of euphoria, drowsiness or impaired coordination of movements. Also, the drug does not affect mental activity, but can improve attention. After taking the drug is rapidly absorbed into the blood, and a high concentration persists for more than four hours. It does not accumulate in the body and exits in a day with urine and feces. The drug does not cause addiction.
When they don't give a prescription
Some non-prescription daytime tranquilizers are available in pharmacies. There is an allowed list. If you buy any of it, then no pharmacist will be able to criticize you. For example, "Lyudiomil" copes well with apathy and anxiety, relieves the feeling of lethargy and stabilizes the work of the psyche. However, it is contraindicated in pregnancy and kidney disease.
"Prozac" or "Fluoxetine" is prescribed for the treatment of painful periods, anxiety and mild panic. With regular use, obsessivethoughts pass, and the mood rises. Nosmoke helps to get rid of bad habits. In addition, it really increases a person's performance.
There are also over-the-counter daytime tranquilizers that are more properly called antidepressants. These are Sirestill, Reksetin, Plizil, Adepress. These drugs relieve stress and improve mental state.
Among the sedatives are "Novopassit" and "Persen". They contain mint, valerian, lemon balm, St. John's wort, hops and elderberry. Only "Persen" is softer and does not make you sleepy.
Help from nature
You can also identify a natural daytime tranquilizer with an antidepressant effect. Lemongrass, lemon balm, mint and even maraya root tinctures have proven themselves well. There is also a leuzea plant that improves a person’s mood, calms and tunes in to positive. Doctors say that most antidepressants affect the metabolic processes of brain mediators and improve the production of the hormones norepinephrine and serotonin. You can drink chamomile and ginseng tinctures as an antidepressant, as well as tea with calendula, lure and motherwort.
Among the purchased funds, you can also highlight a wide range of antidepressants. These are drugs that stimulate or calm, and also have a hypnotic effect. Such substances optimize pathological mood changes in depression. They also improve thought processes andincrease inhibited activity. In particular, "Imipramine", the same "Fluoxetine", "Moclobemide" can be distinguished. They are more likely to stimulate, but soothe - "Amitriptyline", "Doxepin" and "Fluvoxamine". And if you need a remedy that can cope with lethargy and anxiety, then doctors note Maprotiline and Clomipramine.
Antidepressants are prescribed for a long time - from six months or more. One-time consumption of the drug is meaningless, so you only need to take the course and for quite a long time. You need to start with a small amount and make sure that the dosage does not exceed the therapeutic dose. The treatment ends with a decrease in the daily amount.
What's special about them?
Let's look at some common features of daytime tranquilizers. In particular, they have the ability to accumulate in the body and therefore are excreted for a rather long time. In the first week after stopping the intake, the amount of the drug in the body decreases, and the symptoms of the disease may return, so the course must be completed in its entirety and without interruptions.
When taking funds from the benzodiazepine series, hypersedation is possible. These are daytime sleepiness, decreased physical activity, absent-mindedness, weakening of concentration, and even paradoxical reactions, which should be understood as increased aggressiveness, insomnia, muscle weakness and behavioral toxicity. In large doses, drugs can cause respiratory arrest. Especially often side effects occur in elderly people and lovers of alcohol.libations.
Therefore, if we say that there is a lot of harm from tranquilizers, then this statement can and should be argued with. A person should not self-medicate, prescribe drugs for himself, relying on words from social networks. Tranquilizers affect the central nervous system and therefore require the attention of a doctor even when they can be dispensed without a prescription. Before receiving a prescription, you need to take tests.
Start at the lowest dose prescribed by your doctor. This is the case when excessive activity will not lead to good. The "horse" dose will not give an instant result, but will only give the body a real thrashing, in comparison with which all previous problems will seem like baby talk. There is no need to change the dosage abruptly. If there is no effect, then you can add in quantity gradually, listening to your own feelings.
You can take as a basis the most famous antidepressant - "Fluoxetine". It is quickly absorbed into the blood, and the effect is noticeable already on the second day of admission. The dosage may vary depending on the size of the packages, but in any case it is better to start with a minimum of 1 tablet per day. First of all, patients note that sleep is stabilized and its quality improves. Waking up in the morning becomes much easier, easier to control appetite. It is because of this that young girls who are concerned about their own figure sometimes want to take the drug. For them, it can be dangerous, as one of its side effects is anorexia. Indeed, the feelinghunger can be ignored, although it is still impossible to completely refuse food. It is enough that the patient can easily determine the degree of saturation and refuse "one more piece of cake".
If a person had problems with digestion, then the drug can help here. True, it only stimulates the digestive tract, and the patient is required not to harm his own body.
Not everything is perfect. Specifically, "Fluoxetine" has a huge number of side effects. The main ones include lethargy and fatigue, dizziness and headache, severe weight loss (as mentioned above), drowsiness or, on the contrary, insomnia, skin rash, tremor, dry mouth, or even manic syndrome. Also, patients may experience diarrhea, decreased libido, vasculitis, or abnormalities in the functioning of the kidneys, liver, and lungs. To avoid all this, you need to follow the doctor's recommendations.
The drug, like any other tranquilizer, is prescribed in a course, after which a break is made equal to the course intake or a little less. During this time, you need to undergo an examination again in order to make sure that there is an effect or, conversely, to abandon thoughts about further treatment with tranquilizers. If there is a positive trend, then the doctor may recommend a second course of administration with a possible dosage adjustment. To reduce the risk of symptoms returning, withdrawal should be as smooth as the start of the course. That is, a patient with maximumthe dose used is slowly reduced to a minimum. Then the possibility of a breakdown and a sharp return to its original state is eliminated.
To summarize: take tranquilizers only under the supervision of a doctor, so as not to turn a good deed into a disservice to your body!
