If You Take Xanax and anti-depressants would they cause a problem recuperating from Covid?

[Rathgar]

someone on here mentioned this.
I am not interested in searching this out as it will set my anxiety off again.
Has anyone heard, read or thought about this?
Thanks

 

[Bearcat999]

No, no problems.

 

[Guitarist41]

I really don’t see how honestly

 

[Aries]

I haven't heard anything about it. I think the biggest risk for COVID is smoking and obesity.

 

[smilingsoul]

Keeping your mental health good through the recovery process is far more likely to be helpful than not.

 

[Cuchculan]

This is one of the many myths that went around. If I remember correctly somebody posted that Klonpin could cause Covad-19. Which is pure BS. Some people post things who don't know the facts of the virus.

 

[Rosie123]

The concern was that benzos like Klonopin or Xanax, Ativan, etc could increase the chance of pneumonia, which is a potential Covid19 complication. But I only found a few older studies about this topic, and they didn't have to do with Covid 19 of course, but mostly they found that elderly people /people with dementia got pneumonia more often if they took these drugs. I don't know that any studies have been done with the effects of these drugs on Covid19 recovery. My guess is NO studies have been done on this, so ....? (FWIW antidepressants are a different category and I don't think they were included in the original studies at all).

 

[Cuchculan]

If that was the case most of those down with this virus would be like us all. All have mental health issues. Just wondering if another study would find that most people with anxiety were more likely to take better care of themselves because of their fear of this virus. If you look at some people out there. Going around like nothing is happening. Look at everybody with anxiety. They are taken this thing like it is very real. Maybe even a little over the top in some cases. But that might save them come the end of the day. As of yet I have heard no warnings issued about any forms of medication by those medical experts. If they do issue a warning then it becomes real.

 

[Rosie123]

Sometimes the warnings are even premature. There was a warning about ibuprofen that many took seriously, leading to a run on tylenol... but then the ibuprofen warning got walked back. It takes a long time to do proper studies and there hasn't been enough time yet to do this sort of thing since the pandemic started.

Just to be clear what I was stating is that I don't think any studies about benzos and covid 19 have been done, so any anxiety people are feeling about it is unproven and unsubstantiated. People are taking studies about dementia and transferring them to the current situation. You can't really do that.

And if there ever was a time when anxiety is helpful this is possibly a good example of it. I do think those of us with anxious personalities are going to take this virus very seriously and therefore probably will be at less risk.

 

[smilingsoul]

Agreed. It might even be the reason anxiety as a personality trait persists.