TOP-15 best analogues of the preparation of phenazepam: comparison and analysis

Phenazepam is one of the drugs that can have a calming effect on the central nervous system of a person. In fact, this is a highly active tranquilizer.

A special feature of the drug is its superiority over other tranquilizers due to the strength of anxiolytic and tranquilizing effects. In addition, the drug performs the functions:

• anticonvulsant;
• sleeping pills;
• muscle relaxant( muscle relaxation) remedy.

The drug is available in the form of tablets of 0.5 mg. In the package - 50 tablets. The price is 90-100 rubles. Produced in Russia.

Features and purposes of application

The drug is prescribed in the case:

• psychopathic;
• psychopathic;
• is neurotic;
• of the neurosis-like state.

As a rule, in such situations, there is an emphasized state of anxiety, fear, often - increased irritability, instability( emotional lability).

Phenazepam has confirmed its effectiveness in eliminating problems such as obsessive neuroses, various fears of a person( phobias), hypochondriac syndromes. What is important, it demonstrates the result where other tranquilizers are unable to overcome resistance syndromes.

If you take into account the anti-anxiety and sedative effect of the drug, it turns out that it is not inferior to a whole series of neuroleptics, that is, those drugs whose action is aimed at the inhibitory effect.

Often, phenazepam is prescribed to patients for the purpose of eliminating alcohol withdrawal - a phenomenon that occurs after a sudden refusal to take alcohol. It is also a hypnotic. By its sleeping pills approaching the level to Eunotin.

Why do people search for analogs?

It's easy to give up Phenazepam in favor of another drug: with each year, there are more and more analogues. Their appearance is connected and with the fact that Phenazepam was a drug with numerous shortcomings: its popularity is gradually falling.

Perhaps the most important drawback, which attracted attention not only experts, but also patients, is the addiction and dependence that occurred when using tablets. Discoordination arising after the use of the drug has become a real problem for the elderly who risked injury.

What is it really:

The best of the best or substitute for phenazepam?

In the pharmaceutical industry, you can find a whole list of chemical products that are analogues of phenazepam. Among the , the most famous are Diazepam, Elzepam, Oxazepam, Fezanef, Fenzitat, Tranquesipam, Fezipam, Fenorelaxane and others. All of them are tranquilizers, moreover - derivatives of benzodiazepine.

This means that a certain number of those negative qualities that Phenazepam possesses are present in its analogues.

Consider the most popular analogues of Phenazepamam, dividing them into three groups, in total we selected 15 drugs, which in our opinion are worthy of attention.

In the first group will be drugs that provide a completely comparable effect, as Phenazepam, belonging to the same group of benzodiazepines:

1. Fenzitat is a tranquilizer, a benzodiazepine derivative with a pronounced effect of anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, myorelaxing, sedative and hypnotics.
2. Fezanef is a tranquilizer. Applied for the therapy of neurotic, neurotic, psychopathic and other conditions, which are accompanied by anxiety, fear, increased irritability, tension, emotional lability.
3. Fesipam is a drug with pronounced anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, muscle relaxant, sedative and hypnotic effects.
4. Tranquesipam is a remedy with pronounced anxiolytic, hypnotic, sedative, and also anticonvulsant and central muscle relaxant action.
5. Phenorelaxane .The drug is used as an antipsychotic in schizophrenia;also for the therapy of athetosis, autonomic lability;with premedication;As a means to ease the feelings of fear and emotional tension.
6. Elzepam .The drug is used to treat neurotic, neurotic, psychopathic, psychopathic and other conditions, which are accompanied by anxiety, fear, increased irritability, tension, emotional lability.

In the second group, we selected non-prescription analogues of phenazepam, which can be bought freely at the pharmacy. They are harmless to the human body. These are:

1. Amitriptyline .Apply strictly according to the doctor's prescription. Used to treat depression of any etiology. Especially effective is in anxiety-depressive states, due to the severity of sedation. Does not cause exacerbation of productive symptoms( delusions, hallucinations), in contrast to antidepressants with a stimulating effect.
2. Etaperazine .They are used to treat mental illnesses - schizophrenia, exogenous and involutionary senile psychoses, psychopathy, indomitable vomiting, including during pregnancy.
3. Glycine .It is a regulator of metabolism, normalizes and activates the processes of protective inhibition in the central nervous system, reduces psychoemotional stress, increases mental performance.
4. Sonapaks .Used for the treatment of schizophrenia - as a second-line drug in patients who are contraindicated in other drugs, or have no therapeutic effect when taking other medicines;severe behavioral disorders associated with aggressiveness, inability to prolonged concentration of attention.
5. Bellatominal is used for increased irritability, insomnia, neurogenic disorders of the menstrual cycle, to relieve itching with neurodermatitis, in the complex therapy of vegetative-vascular dystonia.
6. Melaxen - contributes to the normalization of sleep, the drug is most effective in the therapy of elderly patients with primary insomnia.
7. Adaptol - used for neuroses and neurosis-like conditions - irritability, emotional instability, anxiety, fear;nicotine abstinence( as part of complex therapy to reduce the craving for tobacco smoking).

In the latter group - drugs that can replace phenazepam as a sleeping pill. We call two of the most well-known phytopreparations of this group:

1. Nason is a combined herbal preparation. Used for sleep disorders( disturbances in the process of falling asleep, frequent awakenings at night, when lying to a short night's sleep, caused by anxiety, anxiety, stress or irritability).
2. Persen .Applied for the treatment of neuroses, which do not need the appointment of potent agents;for the abolition of potent sedatives.

Melaxen is the most famous OTC analogue of

. Melaxen is officially an over-the-counter analogue of phenazepam.

Melaxen alone can be taken by those who are trying to eliminate insomnia. The drug as a whole is a chemical analogue of melatonin, the natural sleep hormone. Consequently, it functions in the body quite organically.

This means that the patient does not break sleep phases, and the sleep itself becomes a restoring full rest.

Using Melaxen will save you from such troubles as daytime drowsiness, discoordination, nightmarish dreams and attention or memory impairments.

Strong analogues

Fenzitat is a popular drug today. It is a drug from the same tranquilizer group, there is practically no difference with phenazepam and, what is more important, drugs have a similar list of contraindications. Use the remedy is not possible in the case of:

• pronounced impairment of kidney and liver function;
• of severe myasthenia gravis;
• pregnancy;
• poisoning - sleeping pills, ethyl alcohol, narcotic drugs, other tranquilizers.

With extreme caution in taking the drug, people should be approached in the elderly.

In cases where insomnia is assessed as very severe, resort to a stronger than Melaxen means. To date, widely used schemes of drug treatment, which are based on modern non-benzodiazepine products, differing in relative safety. This is hypnotics of the third generation, the Z-group. Among them we call:

• Zopiclone;
• Zolpidem( Sanvall);
• Zaleplon( Andante).

Often they are used to treat chronic insomnia, when the cause may be hidden either in the primary sleep disorder, or pathologies of a mental or physical nature. Above listed drugs are only available on prescription.

Domestic analogues

We will pass on domestic products, as well as at their prices.

The first in the list we will put Fenorelaxan - a preparation manufactured by Moskhimpharmpreparaty. Produced in tablets. The price for packing( also 50 pieces) - 79 rubles. Interestingly, this drug is practically no different from phenazepam.

The next domestic analogue is Fenzitat, which is produced by Tatkhimpharmpreparaty. A similar package costs 86 rubles, that is a little cheaper than phenazepam.

And the third to a number of drugs produced in Russia - Elzepam( firm "Ellara").The cost for 50 pcs.- 87 rubles.

How they and how we have

Doctors are very cautious about treating patients with Phenazepam. In addition to the fact that the drug gives a definite result in the treatment of such ailments as epilepsy, insomnia, anxiety and depressive states, alcohol withdrawal, it potentially causes a whole list of side effects.

Especially doctors emphasize the abolition of the drug. This should be done very carefully and gradually. And in any case, do not try to do it yourself. If the reception is nearing the end, you should go to a doctor for advice.

Very often doctors prescribe to undergo a cancellation of a drug in a hospital in order to observe the patient. For those people who do not like to follow the directions of doctors, this is important.

If you compare the methods of treatment, then in the West from drugs that have a strong effect, like Phenazepam, refuse. There resort to analogues, in which the action is softer, but often they provide a longer lasting effect.

If you come to a doctor's office and he does not prescribe to you phenazepam, and an analogue from the group of OTC drugs, then this is a clear sign that he is treating according to European standards.

Experts note the harmfulness of all, without exception, tranquilizers. When resorting to phenazepam, one should remember that it was developed back in the seventies, and then it was intended only for military purposes. Already then he entered and into civilian production. Today there is a strong tendency to refuse therapy with this drug in favor of its analogues.

And again about the drawbacks of

The peculiarity of the effect of the medicine on the body is very ambiguous, it has a considerable list of both contraindications and side effects.

In addition to the traditional hypersensitivity, pregnancy, the period of breastfeeding, adolescence and childhood, among the contraindications are specific points.

Drugs can not be used in a state of shock or coma, with severe depression( when suicidal tendencies occur), angle-closure glaucoma, myasthenia gravis, severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and severe alcohol poisoning or sleeping pills.

Among the side effects, first a few words say about the effect on the central and peripheral nervous system. At the beginning of therapy the drug is drowsy, especially clearly - in older people. In addition, at the same time, ataxia, fatigue, dizziness, confusion, unsteadiness of the gait, slowing of mental and motor reactions, disorientation, decreased ability to concentrate attention develop.

Very rare reactions that contradict the action that the drug should have. It is about the development of fear, anxiety, muscle spasms after the application of the medicine.