I Am Feeling So Sick,what Happens to Me,someone Have Same? Posted: 04-28-06 05:13am
Hello. I am desperate with my symptoms
that I can not find anyone have this in
almost 10 years I have them,my doctor
allways tell me is anxiety and panic
disorder,he made me many blood tests
during last years,electrocardiograms,and
allways all is fine but I feel very sick.I
have been taking seroxat for the last 6
years with 1 year that I quit it but turn
back to it.Also sometimes I have been
taking xanax.
Yesterday I had a very bad attack,sfter
slleping not so well last night I wake up
with heaviness in my head and feeling sick
as I got some flu also the day before,i
went to work in a new job and while
working suddenly my head starte feeling
strange like if my head out from
there,like in other
place,lightheadedness,started to feel like
lightnings inside my head,something like
if I can not stay,around my mouth I feel
like numbness,suddenly like a flash all
over my body,sorry I have so much
difficult to explain the symptoms with
words,i felt like I was gonna to dismay or
falling to the floor,dizzy,feeling very
strange,i started to sweat
,i thought I was gonna die and had to
runnig out from my job place and go
home,that I was having a cerebral attack
or heart attack,but after some minutes I
started feeling better but not completely
well.I have had this attack in the past
also and gone to hospital where they
checked me,blood
test,electrocardiogram,blood
pressure,temperature but all was fine.
In the last years I have had many
thousands of different symptoms.
Some of them I can not explain with
words,except that they are really
frightening and make fell me so sick.
Sometimes I feel like dizzy all the
time(but not spinning room)like sensation
of dizziness inside my head and chest and
arms,sometimes when in bed I feel like my
legs are floating,i feel like tics or
clicks inside my head,like a pressure
inside my head,sometimes like a pressure
between my ribs,sometimes I wake up with
pumping inside me,i feel palpitations in
my head,arms,chest,sometimes I am feeling
well for some months but suddenly come
back without reason,my mouth I feel it
like paste,like stranges tastes,like
dry,when a day I wake up with like
palpitations I know that day I am gonna be
so sick,and really that day I feel so
sick,my head comes and goes,i feel like a
dizzy inside me,inside head and arms and
chest….And thousands of symptoms more.
Sorry I cannot explain so well my symptoms
but is difficult explain them.
Someone have something similar to this?I
am desperate,cannot live like this.
My doctor(he is my doctor since I am a kid
and now I am 34 years old) insists is
anxiety and panick attacks,but I insist
must be a brain tumor,a heart illness or
something very bad,i am sure is something
still doctors do not know what is it,a
brain illness or I do not know.My doctor
not wanna make me more blood tests after
for many years he was making me blood
tests 2 a month cause I asked ,not wanna
make more ecg,as always is fine.I am very
scared of dying,allway thinking I am gonna
die,that I am very sick…
my personality is very nervous,i am always
thinking in the future,…
please I would like to find someone with
same symptoms as me,anybody feeling all
this?Email me.
Really thanks very much
alex
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loopy-one
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Apr 2006 Posts: 19 Location: UK
Hi Alex Posted: 05-07-06 07:19am
"yesterday I had a very bad attack,sfter
slleping not so well last night I wake up
with heaviness in my head and feeling sick
as I got some flu also the day before..."
i had a bad panic attack a couple of
nights ago and woke up feeling tired and a
bit sick the next day. I also had a sore
throat and have been getting swollen
glands - probably generally run down. So
I can sympathise here.
Feeling sick is perhaps partly down to
anxiety generally, and not sleeping well.
I feel more sick when I haven't eaten or
slept well for a certain period of time.
",i went to work in a new job and while
working suddenly my head starte feeling
strange like if my head out from
there,like in other
place,lightheadedness,started to feel like
lightnings inside my head"
can I ask what happened to the job? Did
you continue in it or did you leave?
I get light headed feelings. It is part
of panic attack I think, it can make you
feel sick and dizzy, and tired. I would
suggest it is the anxiety around starting
a new job - it is a lot to take on!
What I do if I feel these symptoms coming
on is breathe deeply from my stomach, and
breathe out as much as possible. Try to
breathe deeply and not shallowy (anxieyt
makes you beathe more shallow but
breathing deeply can calm you down as you
are getting more oxygen). Keep
practicing this and it might fade or get
easier to deal with. Don't panic more
about feeling "strange" because it will
lead you deeper into the panic / anxiety
road which is harder to climbe out of.
But like I said - I have had panic attacks
and I learned to deal with them. My
first one was when I was 16 and I had no
idea what was happening, I just felt as
you described - very "strange" and started
to panic. I pin-pointed it was stress
about my exams etc. I had a few more
similar experiences over the years but
they were no where near bad enough to
worry about (only a few times were they
very worrying...)
when I was 18 and had panic attack again
over my a'level exams my mum knew a doctor
(not our doctor) just a family friend who
gave me a relaxation tape which really
helped. It taught me to calm down and
relax whenever I felt a little stressed or
panic starting.
You are not alone. Your symptoms are far
more common than you realise.
I too get numb feelings in my mouth /
tongue, head etc (or at least I have had
those symptoms too).
Recognise it as anxiety or panic attack
and try to not worry about the symptoms
too much, there probably isn't anything
else medically wrong with you - anxiety
can be extremely frightening.
"sorry I have so much difficult to explain
the symptoms with words"
don't apologise, this forum is here for
exactly this - to help each other and get
things off our chest. Symptoms can be
really hard to describe, and all our
symptoms may be similar or very
different.... But it is all the same
source - panice / nervous anxiety.
Like I said - you are not alone in
suffering. You can get better or learn
to deal with it more effectively.
",i felt like I was gonna to dismay or
falling to the floor,dizzy,feeling very
strange,i started to sweat
,i thought I was gonna die "
this sounds exactly like a typical panic
attack. I felt like this the other night
when I had mine - I thought I was dying
etc. It was horrible. Then you become
afraid of feeling like that again and
develop an anxiety about being anxious!!
Viscious circle, hey?
Tell yourself "this is only a panic
attack, it will pass, I won't die" and
congratulate yourself for getting through
it every time you get through it. You're
doing well, you're doing your best, and
you're doing the right thing by sharing it
and trying to get help, trying out
medications. You are trying to help
yourself, and that is good.
"some of them I can not explain with
words,except that they are really
frightening and make fell me so sick."
yes, I can relate to this and many people
on here probably can too. 12 years ago I
had depression and anxiety - it began to
fade in time (up and down, good days and
bad) and then I learned to not worry and
did things I felt were helping me and
eventually it almost went to the point
that I was in control again. Mine came
back almost a year ago when my friend
died. I have struggled for the last 10
months now. I thought my depression had
gone for good, but it has come back and it
can be frightening and very unpleasant.
I am lucky I have some good friends around
who are helping me through it and this can
be a powerful thing to help you through.
Everything you are describing does sound
like severe anxiety and panic attack, so
tell yourself you'be had tests at the
doctors they cant find anything else wrong
- so go with the idea that it is anxiety.
Very scary but won't kill you - you can
learn to handle it and it can go away.
Mine went away although like I said it has
come back again.
"but I insist must be a brain tumor,a
heart illness or something very bad"
stop stressng yourself out even more by
believing you have these awful illnesses.
When I first got depressed I thought I
was ill, I had to come to terms with what
it really was - depression / anxiety. I
learnt to deal with it once I accepted I
was not ill in other ways, I just felt
like I was ill.
Please don't stress yourself more by
saying you have a tumour etc. What you
are describing is typically anxiety /
panic disorder.
You say you started a new job - well
done!!! I mean it. You're so
courageous starting a new job while you
are feeling this way - you have a lot of
confidence and courage that you don't
realise you have. Tell yourself you have
achieved something good by getting a job
and not letting it stop you life your
life.
"i am very scared of dying,allway thinking
I am gonna die,that I am very sick…"
i really feel for you, because I have had
feelings similar and it is horrible. Can
you try distracting yourself, read a book,
go for a walk, do relaxation techniques
(find out how you can do relaxation). I
tell myself "we are all going to die, I am
going to die at some point, but not
tonight. I want to enjoy my life not
spend it worrying about dying". Be
determined that you'll overcome your fear.
Pray and keep praying.
E-mail me.
Let me know how you are. I really hope
you can get through this and take control
again. I am scared too because I worry
this won't go away, but I am trying not to
focus too much on how I feel when I am
down. I'd really like to help you more
if I can.
Loopy-one
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Bek
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 206 Location: SA
Posted: 05-07-06 22:56pm
Feel releived because I to get all the
symptoms that you have discribed! I am
learning to live with it though. It is a
hard battle when you think that you are
going to have a ehart attack on a daily
basis. I go months with out anything and
then bamb I get the anxiety back again and
bigger and worse then last time.
I have the dizziness and that is what I
hate the most -not having control over
your world. I also get many aches and
pains - neck, chest, shoulders, stomach!
Do you get these to?
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mitch7654
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 170
Posted: 05-07-06 23:03pm
I get all types of pain ,lately ive ben
getting nautious a lot and its like a
battle everydya hop not to get nautious
then boom it happens. Thats not counting
the chets pains,heartbeat thump and other
caca.
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Bek
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 206 Location: SA
Posted: 05-07-06 23:09pm
I get all day heavyness in my chest and
the heavy bumps in my heart when relaxing.
I get a racing heart when I am anxious
or if I wake with a suprise.
Muscle pain is driving me nuts at the
moment I am having heaps of physio done on
my left should which makes me anxiou too
cause it is my left side!
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mitch7654
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 170
Posted: 05-07-06 23:30pm
Yeah everytime I get pain on the left I
get freaked out, but realy theres as many
muscles on the left as there is the right.
Couple of week ago I was getting these
pains in my irght side aftre eating that I
thought was acid reflux or heartburn a
nurse on a info life told me it oculd be
my liver now im nerbvous about that always
nautious it sucks.
Plus ive been getting this sharp ppain in
undere my arm and next to my nipple were
the ribs are to the far left sorta ive had
that for 2 years but seems more often now
I can go on forever with pains
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Bek
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 206 Location: SA
Posted: 05-08-06 00:14am
I know it is hard isn't it. Trying to
get passed all the crap and deal with the
probs!
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mitch7654
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 170
Posted: 05-08-06 00:31am
Dyou take any medicine for yuore anxiety?
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Bek
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 206 Location: SA
Posted: 05-08-06 00:36am
I have only had my anxiety a year - well a
year ago they gave it the name anxiety
before that I was sick and no one new what
it was
i was on xanax .25mg 3 times a day and
slowly got off it when I came to the
relaization that it is not a heart problem
it is anxiety.
I still have the xanax and take one every
now and then. I had nt taken one for
months and last week I took a couple cause
I was feeling terrible. I am lucky cause
the xanax works within an hour and I can
get on with things.
What about you
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mitch7654
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 170
Posted: 05-08-06 01:05am
Well ive had mine for 7 years but when
youre a kid I dint know all these heart
disease and stuff.I would get a attack
here and there and dealt with it. Untill
this september I went to the drs for those
heart thumps I would get once in a while
for the ;ast 2 years and then I had a
panic attack in her office ,she dint know
so she sent me to the er across the street
she was like do yu need a ambulance? Im
like listne I have gotten attacks in the
past I think this is one shes like lets be
safe so I freaked
then I started getting them weekly till
this january daily I coulnt work anymore
nothing. I had been prescribed effexor
and ativan by a dr I took the effexor but
it flipped me out so I never took the
ativan.I started taken it in february. I
took it daily for like1 month then another
dr prescribe me rivotril I take a half of
0.5 every other day since about march
sometimes ill go 1 or 2 days in a row
sometimes ill go 2 days wihtout taking one
sometimes ill take a quarter.
So ive been taken em for 3 monthsim doing
theraoy and dtarting cognitive therapy
this week hope it helps.
I was told by a psychiartist that theray
is the best way and very curable.Anti
depressants just maks the problme then you
cant deal wiht it and learn how to cope
wich is not good.So thats my story but ive
read on a website that these pills can
case liver damage is that true . My dr
never said anyhitng maybe its ffor people
who take a lot that have epilipsie or
something?
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Bek
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 206 Location: SA
Posted: 05-08-06 01:18am
I know that any sort of pharmacutical
drugs can cause side effects so I try to
go all natural. But xanax are there for
me if nothing else works. I found these
pills and ordered them (waiting on
delivery) call ultimate anxiety relief.
There website was put on this forum, not
through a post but as an advertisement www.Ultimateanxietyrelief.
Com so I have ordered them and should
have them soon. I will take them and see
if they help. It is hard to tell with me
if they are working or not because I can
go weeks even months without major anxiety
so I don't know if it is the pills or my
frame of mind etc!
I hate the fact that I think that it is
gone and then it come back knocking me for
a 6 so to speak.
I will post on here how I feel after
taking these pills when they arrive.
They are suppose to work instantly and you
take them one or two daily everyday
whether you are feelign anxious or not.
All the ingediants are listed so you know
what you are taking!
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paul b
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 26 Location: Manchester,England
.... Posted: 05-08-06 05:03am
Hey guys,as you`ve read in some other
threads,i`ve had enxiety and panick
desorder for 20 years,i did used to have
attacks as a kid,i used to run out of
school,i never told anybody why I used to
do it,and the teachers used to just think
I was a difficult child,anyway,when I left
school I went into a hostel,until I was
17,then I moved all over the place,then I
moved in with a friend,by that time things
were getting pretty bad,i was drinking
alot and did`nt know much what I was doing
anymore,i was totally cracking up..So one
night I found some pills, I drank a load
of beer,then took all the tablets,30 in
all..Then just lay down on my bed,the next
thing I knew I was in an ambalance,at the
hospital I had a large rubber tube pushed
down my throat,and my stomach was pumped
out..After that I tried to get a job and
sort my life out,i even kept a job for
about a month,i thought I was doing quite
well,then boom !! The anxiety came back,i
just did`nt bother going back to work,i
could`nt face it,it was impossible to even
go outside..
Anyway i`ve been a bum ever since,never
had a job since 1988..
The medication that i`ve had has`nt worked
e.G paroxatine,citropram,diazapam worked a
bit but when I had a racing heard,it
did`nt slow it down,but it just numbed my
brain,i knew my heart was racing but I
did`nt care,the diazapam just made me
sleep..
I dont take anything anymore,i just handle
the anxiety on my own..My doctor keeps
asking me to try different things but i`ve
just had enough..Its stressfull enough
handling the panick attacks,the last thing
I need is to go back and forth to the
doctors
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vassiliki
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 14
Re: I Am Feeling So Sick,what Happens to Me,someone Have Sam Posted: 03-29-07 13:42pm
warlock14
wrote:
Hello. I am desperate with
my symptoms that I can not find anyone
have this in almost 10 years I have
them,my doctor allways tell me is anxiety
and panic disorder,he made me many blood
tests during last
years,electrocardiograms,and allways all
is fine but I feel very sick.I have been
taking seroxat for the last 6 years with 1
year that I quit it but turn back to
it.Also sometimes I have been taking
xanax.
Yesterday I had a very bad attack,sfter
slleping not so well last night I wake up
with heaviness in my head and feeling sick
as I got some flu also the day before,i
went to work in a new job and while
working suddenly my head starte feeling
strange like if my head out from
there,like in other
place,lightheadedness,started to feel like
lightnings inside my head,something like
if I can not stay,around my mouth I feel
like numbness,suddenly like a flash all
over my body,sorry I have so much
difficult to explain the symptoms with
words,i felt like I was gonna to dismay or
falling to the floor,dizzy,feeling very
strange,i started to sweat
,i thought I was gonna die and had to
runnig out from my job place and go
home,that I was having a cerebral attack
or heart attack,but after some minutes I
started feeling better but not completely
well.I have had this attack in the past
also and gone to hospital where they
checked me,blood
test,electrocardiogram,blood
pressure,temperature but all was fine.
In the last years I have had many
thousands of different symptoms.
Some of them I can not explain with
words,except that they are really
frightening and make fell me so sick.
Sometimes I feel like dizzy all the
time(but not spinning room)like sensation
of dizziness inside my head and chest and
arms,sometimes when in bed I feel like my
legs are floating,i feel like tics or
clicks inside my head,like a pressure
inside my head,sometimes like a pressure
between my ribs,sometimes I wake up with
pumping inside me,i feel palpitations in
my head,arms,chest,sometimes I am feeling
well for some months but suddenly come
back without reason,my mouth I feel it
like paste,like stranges tastes,like
dry,when a day I wake up with like
palpitations I know that day I am gonna be
so sick,and really that day I feel so
sick,my head comes and goes,i feel like a
dizzy inside me,inside head and arms and
chest….And thousands of symptoms more.
Sorry I cannot explain so well my symptoms
but is difficult explain them.
Someone have something similar to this?I
am desperate,cannot live like this.
My doctor(he is my doctor since I am a kid
and now I am 34 years old) insists is
anxiety and panick attacks,but I insist
must be a brain tumor,a heart illness or
something very bad,i am sure is something
still doctors do not know what is it,a
brain illness or I do not know.My doctor
not wanna make me more blood tests after
for many years he was making me blood
tests 2 a month cause I asked ,not wanna
make more ecg,as always is fine.I am very
scared of dying,allway thinking I am gonna
die,that I am very sick…
my personality is very nervous,i am always
thinking in the future,…
please I would like to find someone with
same symptoms as me,anybody feeling all
this?Email me.
Really thanks very much
alex
you re describing me 100%
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wiles_child
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Aug 2007 Posts: 2
Hello Posted: 09-09-07 19:18pm
warlock14,
I know this was posted a long time ago,
but did you get better with the symptoms?
I have had kind of the same symptoms for
about a month now they seem to be going
away but im not sure.....Thanks
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mikemike11
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 1
Can Anyone Relate? Posted: 10-18-07 19:08pm
I have been experiencing panic and anxiety
attacks for about 4 months or so now after
I had a bad experience with marijuana. I
do not smoke marijuana, and this time when
i tried it for one reason or another I
went into an instant panic attack with
racing heart - feeling i was going to die
etc. i spent the next two days in a
complete panic attack for nearly 48 hours
(yes, very scary) long story short - i am
taking klonopin as needed which is rare
some weeks and heavy during others. my
question i have is that i have come to
realize that before i get to the panic
stage i start to feel loopy and light
headed? It is also somewhat of a
depressing feeling - i feel lonely (mainly
I just dont feel like myself on a good
day) ( I feel like my reality is being
altered or slowed down?). the point I am
at now is trying to relax and wait this
feeling out in an calm manner so that i do
not reach panic. I think i panic because i
start to not feel like myself, and worry
that there is something medically wrong
with me. I think I have a huge fear of
mental illness and "going crazy" because
of how i tend to feel during my attacks. I
feel like i am going to loose it when my
attacks come. I was hoping that someone
else could relate to me. I am young and
healthy, and i am doing a number of things
to help myself. Is this loopy feeling
normal or am i having problems with
depression and depression attacks that are
sparking my panic? Any comments would help
and be greatly appreciated - thanks, mike
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matthew 777
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1
I Can Relate to Your Experience. Posted: 12-03-07 19:41pm
I had an attack last night which lasted
for about 2 hours. A feeling of terror and
horror overcame me as I was lying in my
bed.
I tried to think of pleasant things to
make it go away but it slowly intensified
until I thought i was really going to
loose it.
It's the worst attack i've ever
experienced. I felt like I was out of my
body, so small and full of terror. Really
intense fear.
I had to get up and go into my parents
room and wake my mother. She sat there
with me talking softly, just being there
for me.
I decided to have a warm drink and had a
green tea. I immediately felt some relief
so I had four large cups of green tea
until I was almost sick from drinking to
much. My mind cleared and I feel so much
better.
I think my mental problems stem from late
nights, poor nutrition and drinking to
much alcohol.
I have been diagnosed as having mild
Bipolar disorder.
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goyomgyru
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1
Woo Hoo Anxiety and Panic is soooooooo much fun! Posted: 02-02-08 20:09pm
Hey guys and gals, i hope you are all
doing well. I am writing this post to tell
all of you that you are not ALONE!!! I
feel the exact same way as most of you. I
have run the Gauntlet of tests from
doctors to figure out what is wrong with
me and sure enough all my tests (ekg,
stress echo, chest mri, chest Catscan,
chest x-ray, blood work, etc...) came out
perfect. I think at first i was very
dissappointed in myself that something
like this could happen to someone like me
but now i am thinking that the only person
dissappointed in me is the insurance
companies haha. I am definitely not happy
with this situation but i am just trying
to make it through it. I feel like i am
rotting from the inside out sometimes aka
feel sick for no apparent reason. I dont
take drugs, rarely drink, eat healthy, and
exercise.
Things that i have found that help me
include the following:
CBT Therapy (Cognitive Behavioural
Therapy)- This stuff sure made a
diffrence, it did not completely fix the
problem but it sure did help the way i
think about the probelm. It was not
extremely cheap i used a doctor by the
name of Dr. Oakley in Beverly Hills. He
was willing to work on the price for me
and also has referrals to his students who
will work for cheaper. He was big on the
progressive relaxation treatment. as well
as numerous other tools. CBT worked far
better for me than the Phychiatrist but
that could be the individual phychiatrist
or myself, so make your own decisions.
Aciphex- This is heartburn medicine and it
has really helped me with no side effects
(no side effect) I am not sure if i
naturally had heart burn or if the stress
from the anxietty and panic caused it but
it was sure relieved with this medication.
Prior to aciphex i tried tums, rolaid
chewables, and a few other heartburn
tricks but none kept it away as well as
the aciphex. In reality i am all for
getting rid of my heartburn because i
really didn't need another reason to be
Hyper vigilent about my health.
Progress Relaxation Training- Really good
for teaching you how to calm down. Once
again it does not completely solve the
problem but it does help.
Lifestyle- I can't stress this enough,
eating healthy, regular sleeping patterns,
no drugs (illegal), and very limited
drinking) But most importantly having a
set schedule!!!!
Set Schedule- I dont care if you are
volunteering or working for pay, get a set
schedule! This allows you to have to focus
on something else besides your health. I
know how difficult this is, because i am
currently struggling with it tremendously.
Catch 22 "How can i get a job or go to
work on something when i dont know if i am
going to have a panic attack or if i think
i am going to die" This is extremely tough
to deal with! But i can tell you when i
have something i have to do and a place i
have to be at a specific time i have found
that it does not allow me to think about
all my chest pain and arm and leg pains
and twitches as well as my horrendous sick
feeling. If you just sit around because
you feel as though you are just waiting to
die like i know we all have with this
anxiety then it will just get worse and
cycle into a very strong unhappiness and
depression. So i would say go out and find
something to do even if it doesn't pay.
Breathing techniques- These help alot, i
know i was skeptic at first but honestly
what do you have to lose besides some
stress and anxiety.
Things that make the anxiety worse for me
include the following:
Alcohol- While i am drinking it or atelast
once i have gotten past the fear of having
the first couple drinks it feels GREAT
(probably because i get to the point where
i am not concentrating on the health
issue) but the next day and sometimes two
days are f-ing horrible. My new strategy
just dont do it. Maybe a glass of wine
here or a beer there but getting buzzed
tipsy etc does not help.
Lots of crappy food and no exercise- same
effects as alcohol. Feels great while you
are doing it and feels like crap
afterwards.
Sitting around with nothing to do- This is
probably the worse because it allows me to
just concentrate on how i am feeling and
the more i think about it the worse it
gets.
Everyone i hope this has helped! i also
included a website for you guys and gals
to look at:
I am trying accupuncture this week and i
hope it helps, outside of that i would
recommend some Yoga as well. I hope this
message has found you all well.
Good Luck
p.s. I have not tried a lot of medication
because i am adverse to sticking pill sin
my body however i have tried Lexapro (bad
personal experience for me) and have been
given prescriptions for everything from
A-Z. The only thing that has helped
temporarily was Ativan, however it makes
you feel like you are just on a cloud so i
wouldn't use it all the time but it is
nice when you just feel like you can't
take it anymore and need to clock out
temporarily from the fight with anxiety
and panic. Does anyone have any experince
and feed back on prozac?
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mountaingirl
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 3
Panix Attacks Posted: 02-11-08 22:09pm
Hey there,
To anyone suffering from Panic - I am the
poster child. I have had panic attacks
since I was little. When I was away at
camp or at a sleep over I would start
shaking and could not stop my teeth from
shuttering. I would eventually get to
sleep after an adult would calm me, or if
at a sleep over would end up sleeping in
the parents bed to calm me down.
As I got older, and realized there was
something for this disorder I began
medication - I guess around 26 years of
age or so. Paxil and Klonapin. I felt
okay just knowing that if I thought I was
going to panic I had medicine to take -
and sometimes just know that was enough
that I didn't have an attack.
Eventually I turned to alcohol to help
calm me down - works great until the next
day as you tend to get the shakes after
drinking - which was to me a symptom of
panic and therefore would lead to a full
blown attack.
Drinking is still apart of my life, but I
know when I have something to do the next
day I don't ever drink very much or at
all. I know what will happen and it's
totally not worth it.
Try to drink lots and lots of water and
make sure you eat good. Take vitamins,
take your medicine when you need it. Look
up breathing techniques (they really do
help) and excercise as much as you can.
You will sleep much better and feel great
in the morning (maybe a little sore, but
hey - then you are more worried about
aching muscles than having an attack).
Please believe in the Fear of the Fear -
that's what triggers most attacks - so do
whatever you can to distract yourself when
going into an uneasy or new situation -
carry a good book and read it when you
need to, think about how exhausted you are
going to feel after your attack is over
and reflect on the fact the "Hey, that
wasn't so bad..."
I could go on forever - but now I hope
that helps - write back
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