Sudden Out of the Blue Attacks???? (Page 1)

I feel the same way. I have 2 kids,im 29 and it started for me about a year ago. My anxiety comes and goes. I thought it was gone, the last month or so I had no symptoms. We decided to put our house for sale and move, so now its back..I get dizzy, hear palps, chest tightness, and a headache that I swear has been non stop for a week. I cant wait for this to end. Im looking into taking zoloft for the anxiety....

Try not to dwell on it and stop thinking that something is going to happen. It will get better with time. Your mind can make you physically sick. I used to worry about everything, had ptsd, panic attacks, depression. Having a baby is traumatic on the baby and the chemical balance or imbalance in your brain. Keep taking the meds that your doctor gives you and take a little therapy. It doesn't hurt. I was in therapy for one year and on medication. I don't need it anymore even thought I have ms now. Take things one day at a time. Just think of the two little ones that are in your care. Good luck.

try cognitive training therapy. I was in a group that taught us coping skills and have not had any panic attacks since.

Maybe an obvious suggestion, but have you tried going to yoga? Once you gain many breathing tecniques, there's a chance you can talk yourself out of one or stabalise the panic till you calm down. Once you stop the breathing and the panic comes back, you can carry on doing it till it stops, or someone else talks or distracts you enough to snap out of it

I appreciate sudden ones are a lot harder. I was reading a paper at work once and the sudden sensation was staggering

I just learnt to realise I can cope with everyday situations but my sometimes my head can't (like a dream I suppose, something else in or trying to take control)

One that worked for me, was to breath out for the count of 6 and breath in for the count of 6. It's hard to maintain, but the breathing and the concentration on counting takes you out of the panic situation and onto the breathing exercise. Stop and the panic may come back. Do it for 10+ minutes and you may train your mind to snap out of playing nasty tricks on you

Thanks for the info on the breathing..i will give that a try...Im definatly going to look into yoga also. I tried the zoloft but i couldnt manage through the side effects...good luck to u all!

Cbt is great for panic anxiety and depression but you have to do the exercises everyday so it does take a lot of work and self discipline. I still do the tea form exercise that I learned in the book by sam obitz daily and the thought processes that eliminate panic and anxiety do become ingrained over time.

Yoga is a great relaxer! I also recommend the tea form exercise in the book Johnr recommended by Obitz.

Tea forms are great but you do need to do them everyday if you want them to become your new way of thinking and get the most out of them. Human nature makes many stop doing them when they are feeling better and that risks the anxiety and panic catching back up to them later. The brain is like a muscle that needs to be exercised to continue to work well.

Good analogy about the brain being like a muscle

Hello everyone:

I'm new to this board. Just joined yesterday.

I wanted to say that my husband once had panic attacks, and I know how terrible they can be. He hasn't had one in a long time, though.

Just recently I learned about the importance of magnesium in helping many of our ills. I can't speak for everyone, but for my husband and I, it's helped us so much in just a matter of a week's time. I didn't realize how many things magnesium deficiency can cause, but it controls the function of 325 or more chemical processes in your body. For example, calcium won't work correctly without it. Potassium won't work without it, and most people are deficient, or most in the US or deficient anyway. I'm sure there's some that aren't. Unfortunately a simple blood test won't help you much even if it shows magnesium in your blood because the most important part of it has to be in your cells.

I've just ordered a book entitled "The Magnesium Factor," by Dr. Mildred Seelig. If you'll go to Amazon and read the customer reviews, you'll see what I'm talking about. Also go to mgwater.com

That place has a ton of information about it, including medical articles and such. But there's plently of information about the importance of it. You'll be surprised because you don't hear much about our deficiency in it.

We hear stuff all the time about calcium, and many people have too high calcium, which can cause sudden heart attacks. Calcium needs the natural calcium channel blocker magnesium to work properly after it's done what it's supposed to do. Otherwise, it turns into a crystalized form, which is bad news.

Hope all of you get some help.

Tiza

Np problem and if it makes you feel better sometimes I have noticed I have missed a few notifications.

That does not make me feel any better, but thanks for letting me know that I'm not the only one; security in numbers I guess. Seems to be working now or I may have not known you replied to me

Hey John I was thinking about you last night when I awoke in the middle of the night and was ruminating on everything I had to do today and could not get back to sleep. After about a half hour of tossing and turning I remembered when you told me that you countered the thoughts that kept you awake in a tea form and then were able to get back to sleep. So I got up spent about ten minutes on my tea forms and fell back to sleep after a couple of minutes. Thanks for giving me a new use for them and I'm glad you are receiving your notifications again

Always nice to be thought of and I really like hearing about when my advice was useful to someone Hopefully your sleeping problem was a one night thing and not a recurring problem but keep doing the tea forms on the thoughts that are keeping you awake and you will get through them and back to more restful sleep.

It lasted a couple of nights but I have been doing my tea's and I have been sleeping fine. Thanks again for the reassurance.

Tashlj are you still posting? How are you doing now?

I hope you are right, but it would be nice to hear an update from him don't you think?