[AnnieBL]

I think that you may have slightly misinterpreted my intentions. Both my beta blocker (currently atenolol) and PM are capable of numerous and considerable effects on people that take them, and both have or can effectively have anxiolytic properties (as you know in the case of PM). I want to stop the atenolol first to see what the short term effects will be: I would expect the more obvious effects to be apparent in a week or two. If I then stop the PM, at least there is a possibility of attributing the effects (particularly BP and mental) that occur to the correct agent. I have been taking beta blockers for 11 years. Ten years ago I found myself as an co-defendant and principal witness in an eight figure lawsuit which only finally faded away a few months ago. In discussing what I have just found out about beta-blockers and anxiety with J., she said that she had been surprised that I had been able to take the lawsuit and various other things so calmly (laid-back was the term she used) and wondered whether the BB had something to do with that. So perhaps there was an unsuspected benefit.

Another complication I need to sort out before starting butea superba, which hasn't arrived yet in any case, is that the terazosin I take is incompatible with PDE5 inhibitors and thus probably with butea superba. I'm hoping I can do without the little it apparently does or get it changed (when I see the NP in two weeks or so) to tamulosin (Flomax) which would probably have been prescribed to me in the first place had it then been available as a generic. It avoids the PDE5 problem and some others of terazosin and may be more effective.

Once these matters are (hopefully) cleared up, then your advice makes excellent sense (and is welcome as ever).