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I would suggest as a moderator of this subreddit to NOT take any kind of drugs without a doctors supervision. There's no point in becoming dependent on a drug that you could live without with a little...

SLPs will see this as unethical. In order to get funding for something like this, it would need to be an anonymized double-blind study with upwards of 20 participants in both the control group and the...

I attended speech therapy however, my therapist referred me to another doctor who prescribed me pills to "relax". The pills were somewhat helpful, however they made me sleepy during effect which wasn'...

anybody rich enough to try Leviteracetam? One research showed it eliminate stutter in the patient for 12 weeks. You can easily find it on google. Anyone up to try?

anybody rich enough to try Leviteracetam? One research showed it eliminate stutter in the patient for 12 weeks. You can easily find it on google. Anyone up to try? I'm very curious on this, but curren...

I tried one of these. I do believe that it was pretty effective but I found the side-effects to be pretty shitty so I stopped taking it. I was so dull and almost felt like a ghost at times....

Well, I'm not a fan of self-medicating in general. Also, without a proper control, I think some people could trick themselves into thinking they needed it (after those 3 weeks). Or like, needed _more_...

supplements, pills and stuttering

supplements, pills and stuttering I've recently read about vitamin b1(thiamine) and how it can help your stutter. I was wondering if anyone else has any experience with any similar pills or vitamins. ...

Concerta and Stuttering?

Concerta and Stuttering? So, I just started taking concerta and it has made my stuttering a lot worse although it makes some peoples stuttering better. I was wondering if their was a way to still get...

Have you tried out of the ordinary methods to help your stuttering?

Have you tried out of the ordinary methods to help your stuttering? I'm 17 and I stutter. In elementary school I had the opportunity to have speech therapy. After a year of that it definitely improved...

Oh I know it can be awesome in situations with high anxiety (I use it for flying, personally). It's just not practical as a realistic solution to stuttering, which I think we can all agree on. Being d...

I think xanax can be a very valuable 'tool'. I say tool because as you mentioned it's not something you want to take every day and constantly yawning / nodding off at work doesn't look that great. I w...

To be honest, I'd rather stutter than walk around like zombi drugged....

They don't reduce stuttering, they just reduce the anxiety that can exacerbate it. But I mean... of course being on Xanax helps reduce my disfluency. It also reduces my ability to function as anythi...

I take that for anxiety/depression and it helps. Do not get hooked on pharmaceuticals that you have to withdraw from. I had to experience tapering off under doctor care and it was terrible! ...

Probably a couple months. It's for anxiety.. I talked about getting on meds to my doctor and he was very understanding about it all. He said to try out Citalopram because it had the least known side e...

Xanax is a benzo and from personal experience, I dont find it directly helpful. Instead it just sort of dulls my emotions and my feeling towards stuttering, but did not increase fluency, on the contra...

I've been taking it for months. The only side effect I had was for the first month it was hard to be comfortable sitting down. It's hard to explain. But eventually it went away. Personally though, I'd...

Abilify really helped my stutter

Abilify really helped my stutter After trying every sort of speech therapy known to man I finally resorted to drugs. Luckily the shrink at the local free clinic was very understanding of my stuttering...

Most drugs that have an affect on your body usually have side effects. I've heard that some similar drugs lead to Depression and anxiety, I have no experience with drugs and stuttering otherwise....

Stress relief is the best way of getting through any day. Be it a good or bad one I think you should always try and motivate yourself to look forward to something at the end of the day; So when you do...