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Your GP is slow on the uptake!  Why hasn't he/she prescribed short term use of 'valium' to calm the nerves: 10mg 3 times a day followed by 5mg twice a day then as necessary once symptoms lessen?  Once I knew that it worked I never required 'extra' which is what GPs are so concerned about!

I've found Propranolol in recent years helpful, 40mg at night to ease early morning surges.  Cortisol, the waking hormones, can cause havoc!  Add that your own ups and downs as oestrogen levels drop can cause anxiety surges. Awful.

You will get out and about again.  In the 1990s I believed that I would never leave the house again, but with support from the GP and DH, here I am