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Q: Light-headed anxiety symptom ?
asked by: lil_scorpio on June 25th, 2008
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I feel as though I may have had an anxiety attach early this morning. It was around 2am and I was trying to sleep. My mind was wandering , worring about the fact that I have recently been fired and worring about where my next paycheck is going to come from. I have been suffering with sinus problems lately, the left side of my nose is ALWAYS stopped up and sometimes I am light-headed. It hasn't been bothering me too much lately though. Also, my stomach has been upset lately, almost like a tight achey feeling, like I have gas but I don't. Anyway, as I was trying to sleep all of a sudden I got really queasy and felt horribly sick to my stomach, for no reason. I felt light-headed and my throat felt tight, like I couldn't swallow or breath in all the way. My hands started to kind of go numb and tingle. I started to freak out! I felt like I was dying! The strange thing is that exactly a month ago, May 25, the same exact thing happened to me, at the same time of morning! I have been trying to read some things on here that other people have wrote, but I still feel as though I need advice. I was so scared when this happened and I don't want it to be a regular occurance. I don't really have anybody to talk to about it, I don't feel as though I'd be taken seriously. I'm only 24 and I don't know if this is normal or not. I'd really appericate anybodys advice and help.
I would also like to add that today, after all of this, my nose still feels all stopped up. I feel like I've gone swimming and got a lot of water up my nose and I can't breath right. I still feel very light-headed and my stomach feels upset, I don't feel sick it just hurts. Could someone please give me some advice so that I may feel better and not continue to freak out?
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teary_eyed 82
replied on July 10th, 2008
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hi. im just curiosu how you're doing and what you ended up doing for your symptoms. My main symptom of anxiety is upset stomach ... then sweaty palms, tremors, can't sit still. I try to just do some breathing exercises to calm down. If it gets real bad I've been prescribed xanax for this and ONCE IN A WHILE i will take one but not alot because those are addicting. how long did it take for the attack to pass? any symptoms carry over even after you calmed down (ie: upset stomach, shaking, light-headed?)
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lil_scorpio
replied on July 10th, 2008
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It took awhile to pass, I think I finally got tired enough that I just fell asleep. I felt lightheaded the next day and when I thought too much about it I would start to kind of freak out again. My throat felt tight pretty much all day and my stomach was still kind of quesey. It seems like it took awhile to get over. Sorry I can't be of much help, and don't even know what to do for it. I think it was a mixture of sinus problems and anxiety.
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kmartbrandshoes
replied on April 20th, 2009
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sounds like its just an anxiety attack, though the sinus problems arent helping either im sure. xanax works wonders, though like the person said above, they are addictive so only take them at the worse of times. Sometimes i get to feeling exactly like what youre describing (without the clogged up nose part), which lasts all day til i fall asleep. when i wake up the next morning 'sometimes' i'll think about feeling that same way again then it gets hammered in my brain, and its like dejavu all over again. YIPPEEE! Razz the only thing that works after that is xanax. after i take 1, or even half of 1 0.25mg pill, i am absolutely 110% about an hour later. Everytime i realize it was just anxiety making me feel that way and nothing was wrong. In the end, my brain just needed a reset, and i think yours might too. btw i think ill throw in that after the reset, all those symptoms go away for along time.

-- Wow i think i should have checked the date of your post --
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lil_scorpio
replied on April 23rd, 2009
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kmartbrandshoes
(cute name by the way!)

Thanks for the comment, and don't worry about the date of my post, I still have some of the same symptoms, and every bit of info/advice helps. Thanks again. =)
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