Anxiety While Pregnant.... (Page 1)

I've noticed that no one has replyed to my message. What I really need to know is if anyone has ever experienced a "out of control" feeling when learning they are pregnant? If so, how did they handle it? Does anyone think this will hurt the baby if I am under such a negative mental status? I need help to this problem......Please.....

hi i havent had one while pregnant ,,but i do get them one of witch put me in the er,,i am currently on celexa for them but i am contiplating goin off of it and trying natural remedies ,i do know walking exercise of any kind will make them go away,so if you start to get them again with this pregnancy then keep that in mind,hope it was helpful:)

Women go through all sorts of emotional traumas when they learn & during the entire pregnancy itself - plus as you know by now we also suffer the traumas associated with just dealing with the awesome responsibilities of being a parent. These feelings & fears (up to & including anxiety attacks!!) etc are partly hormonal but also partly fear of the huge unknown of having a child (& no matter how many you have, each pregnancy like each child - is different).

Right now you have a 4 yr old & another child about 2. So neither is in school & you still have alot of responsibility on your shoulders & your body looking after them etc. I think that it might be best for you & for your children (& even long term perhaps for your marriage) & everyone's sanity etc to just leave things awhile, wait until these 2 are at school & see how you feel. But you also need totalk to your husband, dr & a support group (such a group would perhaps be able to teach you some skills on how to cope with your anxiety).

I was in hospital with my daughter (she had severe reflux) when she was about 6-8 weeks old & she got a cold (a timy weeeny cold) she was surrounded by mothers, doctors & specialist nurses - but I still had to check on her at least every half hour all night - I wasn't going to let anyone else be responsible for my baby - I was the only one who could or would care for her & keep her safe >>>>>> this is a form of panic.

Most mother's suffer panic concerning their babies & the pregnancies it's just that while some recognize it at the time others don't see it till later if ever.

Have you thought about trying soem of the natural anti-depressants - like 5htp, sam-e, dhea (can help) valerian, vitamin b's etc etc. These take longer to get into your blood stream but they do work if you combine them with developing some skills to assist them & you - eg smile alot, put smilies up everywhere (smiling releases chemicals that reduce stress/depression etc & make us happy - the same applies to the next suggestion) take a 30-60 minute walk about 6-7am that's when the sunsrays - even if its overcast releases these chemicals.

Pm me if you want to.

I just wanted to let you know you are not alone in the anxiety area. I have a 10 month old and I am 19 weeks pregnant and I think the whole world is out to get me. Iw orry about getting listeria or toxo and getting the baby sick. I worry about not washing my hands enough. It's crazy. It's good to talk to other people with the same issues. At least you know you aren't alone. I am trying to aviod taking meds for it my dr prescribed zoloft but I have yet to take it. Ijust worry about it. So I am trying to just over come my anxiety by talkinga bout it and realizing i'm being irrational.

If you want to talk you can write me.

Thank you, casper for replying to my message....It is hard to find people with this type of irrational fear. I am not even pregnant yet and I worry about being pregnant! (but I am trying to countereact these thoughts with postive images of myself being pregnant). So since you are 19 weeks pregnant, you need to take each day as it comes and start to countereact the negative thoughts with postive ones---you already have a healthy 10 mo. Old, so that is proof that this baby will be healthly too. Start writing down some of your negative thoughts ( in your spare time--right!!!) but try anyway. If you need to take zoloft--then take it. There is clinical proof that it will not harm your baby, plus you are passed the developing stage of your baby anyway so if you need it, take it with ease. You have to weigh the consquences of taking any medication when being pregnant --- if you feel so bad off or if you think that the worrrying and stress is harming you or the baby, then definitely take the meds. But if you feel that you can cope and no harm is being done, then fine, try to relax and don't take the meds. You know, it's really up to you--this is your body and your baby!! No one can tell you what to do with either. You have the power in this situation--take advatage of it!! I hope these words help you---take care!! Brenna

Brenna thanks for the reply. I know I have total control and I am trying to do this without meds. However it I have another week like I just had I might start taking them...It was very anxiety ridden. I broke down and cried twice...I didn't think I was going to be able to handle being pregnant..It's much wosre this time. I will try positive self talk....I have been and sometimes it helps...I get stressed..Then it passes then I get that way again...It's just a cycle really..

Anyway good luck with getting pregnant...It will happen soon...Use the fertility kits..That's how we had our daughter...

I go thru the same thing as all of you. I started having terrible, cant leave the house, anxiety and panic attacks 2 years ago. Then I was put on remeron, and boy did it help. I started doing therapy with a great therapist, who I still see. The anxiety has become tolerable but I can still feel it at times. Its been a bit on the rise the last few weeks. Probably because I am getting ready to have another child. I do all the what iffing that causes it in the first place. It also comes from feeling the need to be in control of everything, and somewhere deep down not feeling that I deserve to be happy so I avoid the happiness by being fearful and full of anxiety. Anyone else have these similiar thoughts? Ps: when I start thinking negative, its like, no one needs me, I wont be a good mother, what if I cant handle taking care of a baby, what if I am home from work on maternity leave and post partdum gets the best of me, and on and on.

Yes! Thanks for your post. I am feeling very overwhelmed. I am due on 8/30/04 and as it gets closer I get more and more panicky. I left a job, and moved to a different state all within the last three months. I don't want to leave the house, and when I do, I feel people looking at me and hate it. I know logically that i'm overreacting but I feel like people think i'm a bad person or something. I don't know why I have this shame! It's exhausting. I guess this is how my anxiety manifests itself. I'm totally worried about having the baby too, and will I be a good mother, or will I just collapse under the pressure. I live alone, still with the father but he doesn't live with me.
Just wanted to vent, thanks.

It is good to know that I am not alone. I have struggled with infertility for 3 years and I finally got pregnant in april. Unfortunatly I had a miscarriage when I was 7 weeks along. Now I have a new set of worries--like I really needed that! I have suffered from anxiety for many years and as much as I desperately want a child, I am very scared. I am scared about what pregnancy will be like--will I get really sick--what if I can't handle it. What about the delivery? I know rationally that millions of women do it every day and I get so frustrated with myself and also very jealous of the women who get pregnant and seem to float through it without a worry. I so wish that could be me. It really helps to know that I am not the only one who has anxiety about this. I agree that it has a lot to do with the lack of control that you experience with pregnancy. It is all about trusting your body to do what nature has intended. There is only one problem--when you have anxiety you begin to not trust your body because it has been deceiving you with the anxiety symptoms. At least that is how I feel. I am so happy that I stumbled on to this website and was able to vent. If anyone has any input please respond.

:cry: hi! My name is angela and i'm 8weeks pregnant woman. I having hard time from in the moring until the time go to bed. I have bad anxiety through the whole day with couple times of panic attack for past 9 days. I have no energy, can't sleep well, and lost appetite. Whole day I have fear that i'm going to have this kind of feeling forever. I'm hopeless. But I read your message and you said that you"re taking medicine. Is that really help you to through out day with out fear? , and those kinds of medicine not going to damage brain? I mean if i'm taking medicine it will make me feel not to feeling fear, anxiety, and panic attack? I feel like i'm going to die. Whould you please give me some advise so that can help me get a correct knowledge about cure medicine, and also, I can have hope through your experience...

Please! Help me
thank you

To Brenna
I'm soo sorry to hear you have anxiety for 15 yrs.
I also suffer with it Really Bad...
If the wind blows a different direction I get one.
I had a baby 2 yrs ago and it was hard I fought not being on meds and I got throw it but it was Hard.....
I 'm now 7 months pregnant and this time around I couldn't do it with out some help... I take clorazapam 0.5 does and half that witch is 0.2 only when I can't Breath my way out of an Anxiety and it works it has No harm on the baby.
I have checked with my Nurse and OB.
It is not recommended the 1st trimester but the 2nd is ok.
I hope this Info helps you and wish you all the BEST for you and your family!!!

To Brenna
I'm soo sorry to hear you have anxiety for 15 yrs.
I also suffer with it Really Bad...
If the wind blows a different direction I get one.
I had a baby 2 yrs ago and it was hard I fought not being on meds and I got throw it but it was Hard.....
I 'm now 7 months pregnant and this time around I couldn't do it with out some help... I take clorazapam 0.5 does and half that witch is 0.2 only when I can't Breath my way out of an Anxiety and it works it has No harm on the baby.
I have checked with my Nurse and OB.
It is not recommended the 1st trimester but the 2nd is ok.
I hope this Info helps you and wish you all the BEST for you and your family!!!

I began getting panic type symptoms around age 32 including racing heart, irregular heartbeat, shotness of breath, could not sleep at all.

I was afraid to lift anything exercise, take a walk or do anything that would set off my symptoms. I was 32- I thought I was dying! While I was diagnosed with Mitral Valve Prolapse (supposedly) and put on medication to control heart rhythm, I continued to have episodes almost daily! I was in an out of emergency rooms at least once a week.

Finally my wife mentioned cutting out caffeine completely from my diet which I thought I had done already. She reminded me that I drink quite a bit of decaf coffee and Iced tea and I replied but it’s decaf? Come to learn all decaf is not the same. After cutting out the decaf stuff for only a day or two I began sleeping like a baby and feeling like I was 15 years younger!

I'd also read that taking a Calcium Magnesium Zinc plus a Vitamin B complex supplement once a day helps keep teh nervous system in balance. With the combination of the supplements and zero caffeine I have gotten rid of 99% of my symptoms.

I fgured, cutting out the caffeine and the decaf will never hurt you anyway and a supplement- ask your doctor but I don’t think a moderate amount of a vitamin supplement can hurt you either…. Best of Luck. I’d love to hear back and see if it helped you….

Interesting info on the supplemental! I should try that once I have my baby. Thanks.

I have suffered from panic attacks for the past three years and I am now 22 weeks pregnant. I Used to be on xanax and paxil everyday for a year. I Quit cold turkey- which is not recomended and IS HARD about six months bf i got pregnant. I can relate to you- I feel like I cannot leave the house without a PA. I feel like i am going to go crazy and "loose it" sometimes- but - I then i see all that we as women are capable of doing and going through and it gets me through the day. Every visit to the dr is nerve racking for me but i am so happy afterwards bc i know that I did this for my baby and that he is happy and healthy.
I thought too that i wouldn't be able to LIVE

I thought at one point that i would not be able to get throughthe day w/o the meds- but months later i see that i can- and when the baby gets here he will be alll worth it. I do not plan on getting on meds again- I feel if I can get through this point in my life and go through labor going crazy with panic attack then i can do anything!! hang in there- it is HARD getting off those meds- just remember that you have a little one now who loves you NO MATTER WHAT!
ginny

I want to get pregnant, but worry about if I have a panic attack, or anxiety what will I do? Right now I take Ativan if I have anxiety or a panic attack. I worry that the doctors might not help me if I did have a hard time. Also I have Little Asthma and a Mitral Valve Prolasp, I am 25 and otherwise seem healthy, and work full time. Is there med's that you can take while pregnant? Any tips will be appreciated.

i have bad anxiety or panic attacks i got diognosed with heart problems at the age of 9 or 10 i think and ever since ive became pregnant they just came out of no where for me. like when i go to bed down and grab something and come up a little to fast my heart rate would just go up and my breathing would get deeper i would have slight chest pains ect. i would always sit down and drink some very cold water. Get infront of a vent or fan it really helps the coolness makes everything feel better and it helps slow down your heart rate. I called the doctor and they said as long as things wasnt going too bad as to where it is leading to stomach cramps or anything but remember when you are having one, DO NOT WORRY! cause when you worry it makes the panic attack sometimes get even worse and your baby can feel your pain so remember when you worry more about it so is your baby. So just relax and try to catch some breths in a cool room. i hope this helps