An older woman had a history of anxiety. She worked at reducing it through good self care, meditation and building her self acceptance. Over time her wretched anxiety reduced both in frequency and severity. She did not need to look for further natural anxiety relief.

Then she became ill and was given steroids to dampen down rampant inflammation. She did ask about the side effects of the medication but was effectively told they weren’t anything to worry about.

As her steroid medication was reduced over the weeks she became very anxious and found it difficult to be bothered to do anything. She had what she called “being uptight” along with the “blahs” and she wanted some natural anxiety relief. She went online and discovered that what she was feeling were side effects of coming off the medication. She felt betrayed by her doctors lies about the impact of the steroids, especially as she had asked about them. While she understood that all medication can have side effects she wasn’t previously aware that coming off them can produce side effects as well. This annoyed her further.

Steroids suppress the production of cortisol when being taken but when the body kicks in its own production of cortisol again it can go into overdrive, which is what happened in her case. Coming off the steroids had caused a natural rebound effect with her natural cortisol leaving her feeling both anxious and irritable. Her family felt she was overreacting to normal things.

She was very loathe to take the risk of taking any further drugs for the anxiety after her experiences with the steroids. She looked to further natural anxiety relief to help. She had implemented all the self care she knew. It helped knowing that the anxiety was just due to hormones and she decided to trust that her body would settle down again as long as she kept up her good self care.

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