I hope someone can answer my questions. I am at the end of my rope and don't know where to turn!
My husband was exposed to carbon monoxide while working in a basement with a gas powered saw for approximately 3 hours. He went to the ER where they gave him an oxygen mask (no hyperbaric chamber in our small-town hospital) and he went home after 5 1/2 hours.
Immediately, he had to stop smoking. He began having panic attacks periodically... nothing would set them off, they would just start and he had no warning they were coming. At first it was a little obvious what was causing them (running with the dog, driving across a bridge), but they have progressively gotten much worse. They are at the point now where he is afraid to drive to the store a block away, for fear he will have a panic attack. He has them VERY regularly now.
He has been to the doctor and back to the ER a total of about 4 or 5 times now. They have checked his heart, they have tested his blood, he has tried taking herbal supplements and vitamins, he has had multiple antidepressants and antianxiety medications prescribed because the first bunch he was prescribed made things worse.
I can't get him out of bed anymore.... it has been about a week since he has worked, and we could end up eventually losing our house and having to file bankruptcy if he doesn't get better to the point of being able to go back to work again!
The only thing we haven't tried is taking him to a psychiatrist, but what good can that do for panic attacks? I'm not understanding how that would help.
Does ANYONE have any suggestions of what could possibly make him better? I miss him... it is very lonely in my house, even when he is right there, just because he's not the same. I don't know how much longer I can hang on....
Please help!