- similar effect to benzodiazepines such as clonazepam which is recommended for CFS but without the issues that come with that class of drugs but also reduces tachycardia
- don't seem to cause dependency or develop tolerance, you can actually reduce the amount over time if you feel better / need to be upright a lot
- reasonably cheap and not restricted as much as other drugs
- starts working very quickly so can be increased in response to symptoms, but effect lasts for 12 hours+
By december I was able to spray paint etc though ( its not a real wall don't worry )
so I think its not a coincidence, what this particular drug seems to do is remove most of the adrenaline from your body and possibly some testosterone, it also seems to lower the nerve communication to the muscles in both directions, so in that sense it acts like a painkiller, although you can still feel 80% of the pain, I think what its doing is its removing the sort of fight or flight mode that we often get into where the nerves are in overdrive and the muscles are twitching slightly, particularly seems to happen in the legs, I've heard it called 'restless legs' but it also creates a feeling in the chest of sickly overexcitement, this is what seems to happen if I run out of the drug, get an exponential decline in health over about 5 days.
Even taking 20mg it puts me into a complete resting state, where I don't really want to leave my chair at all
and I started asking other people do get things for me instead, this is actually what I should be doing relative to my health level at the moment, its just that normally we are in a sort of overdrive mode.
You might think that since it lowers blood pressure its going to make your vertical tolerance worse,
its possible that it will if you are really bad like don't even try to stand up at all level bad, but for moderate people its going to actually be good in the long run because the improvement to general health level should improve your tolerance.
From a search here's some other people that seemed to get good results with it
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...y-improved-by-beta-blocker.47408/#post-775366
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...tionality-from-propranolol.48655/#post-800571
Anyone willing to give it a try or is there perhaps another drug that you take which you feel does
the same effect ?