I normally have some level of anxiety but I’ve been having really extreme anxiety and panic attacks over the past few day. The only thing I’ve taken that I don’t usually take is loratadine for allergies. I’ve seen online that it’s meant to have the reverse effect on anxiety but I’ve also seen maybe one of two other people asking the same thing with no definite answers.
Anybody else get this?
I also haven’t taken any today and I haven’t had any panic attacks. My anxiety is at base level too.
I have never personally had that same experience, but I’ll note that drugs.com does note that a common loratadine side effect is “feeling nervous or hyperactive”, and with such a generic and common side effect as that it would make total sense that some people could be much more susceptible to it than others.
Thankfully there are alternatives, but each one has its own separate caveat.
This is gonna sound silly, but I have some serious outdoor allergies, and all these leftover cloth masks from covid, and it turns out wearing the masks outside help tremendously to reduce allergies because the pollen doesn’t make it all up my nose. Of course, the tradeoff is me being the person wearing a mask outdoors in the middle of summer 😅
Japanese have been using masks for allergies for a long time. Something about planting a shit ton of a certain tree for making boats and never cutting them because steel became the better material