And exactly how is it helping your akathisia?
I’m taking 20 mgs. of Propanolol in the
AM. I take it in an attempt to deal with anxiety.
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I was on propranolol early when I was first diagnosed. I think I was on 5 or 10mg. I eventually stopped it because I would get way too light headed when I would stand up. I didn’t really feel like it helped with my akisthisia really anyhow.
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I occasionally take 10 mg Propranolol once one time a week for performance anxiety right before a piano lesson. It really seems to help for mild anxiety. I don’t know how much it would help for major anxiety.
I was on propranolol: My symptoms were acute, and I couldn’t sleep or sit. I had to be taken off of the combination of propranolol and risperidone, to be put on seroquel. I had also tried Ability, and Latuda.
I take 10 mg of it in the morning and 10 mg in the evening for blood pressure. I picked this medicine because I heard it also helps with anxiety. I don’t think it helps to be honest. I’ve been thinking of making a change to a different blood pressure med.
Propranolol makes it hard to fall asleep at night.
I used to take 20mg propranolol for tremors and palpitations. But beware combining propranolol with some antipsychotics like clozapine can worsen hypotension.
And I’m willing to bet that Latuda and Abilify made akathasia quite intolerable, yes? 
Hey bud- I’m reading your post and my jaw just dropped. Propranolol is FDA approved to lower heart rate/pulse rate due to tachycardia. For OFF-LABEL use/prescribing, it’s only acceptable and arguable effective in helping treat underlying physiological symptoms of anxiety/panic disorders. In order to effectively treat akathasia, you would need an anticholinergic, such as Cogentin, Benadryl, and then if that fails, it’s prescribing protocol to then use the Benzodiazapine family, usually Ativan is tried first, if that fails then Valium because of it’s muscle relaxing properties. This doctor is NOT medicating the akathasia appropriately. I won’t tell you what to do, but if you’re suffering from this, please, I implore you to get another opinion or go to the ER. They will help you. Akathasia is hell. Many of us have been there.
If I may ask, is it permanent for you or do you still have time to try other medications that won’t do this to you?
It gave(Seroquel) be blurry thinking like I’m too disoriented to drive. Like, if I play Nintendo I feel bodily disconnected.( propranolol didn’t do much) Also, I felt like a pedophile. The medication made it easier to write in foreign languages, or I’d experience lucid dreams, like lucid comic book dreams. The best change there was Mucuna Pruriens, and NAC followed by Sam-E and L-Theanine. The Mucuna Pruriens and NAC corrected the feeling of blurriness like I’m too disconnected to drive. Sam-E over all improved feelings of lethargy. Also, drinking herbal tea improved lethargy. And then I had some respiratory problems which improved or bettered with Mucinex.
When I got better I did some self-therapy with Dienetics Self-Analysis by L. Ron Hubbard, and a series of books by Erich Fromm, and Victor Frankl. I think this other part like mathematical thinking does seem more connected, if hypothetically scientific shortcomings fit with Disconnection Hypothesis, or if events like neuroses, or what could be like enneagrammatic traits of personality are like Beyesian statistical kinds of noise.
So in response, when recently playing Lumosity and Brain H.Q., along with games like Lego Star Wars, or Professor Layton, could possibly demonstrate when changing medications, or supplements the change, such as with Lumosity. This clearly demonstrates a correlation between card games like solitaire, and 3d platforms, that this can in fact improve testing numbers somehow, or not.
Sciences like Psychiatry, then, are stuck as a mythology, and are not entirely scientifically valid. I can catch the mistakes in the psychiatric system with luminosity. Doctors as psychiatrists are not real medical doctors, and have a mythology cult, don’t care about Lumosity.