mariep
New User
Female
2 posts since December 6th, 2008
New User
Female
2 posts since December 6th, 2008
mariep's posts
I feel the same way you do. I have all these crazy symptoms and new ones keep popping up. The latest one is a huge, quick gasp for breath as I wake up...like I just ran a marathon. I still have the periodic episodes of apnea, difficulty taking a deep breath, tremors, internal shakes, flushing, eye problems from blurry vision to almost seeing double... more
I do get episodes during the day too..thats what landed me in the hospital for 3 days. I have been doing find now that I'm on the lorazepam and beta blockers except I still get up at night feeling like I stopped breathing every now and again. I have read that everyone experiences episodes of apnea as they fall asleep and some while they are asleep ... more
that would all be believable except my so called attack lasted for 7 hours even after they gave me some lorazepam...all that did was calm the chills down and the bp slightly....the heart rate remained in the low 100's until i feel asleep and woke up the next morning
I wake up gasping for air, not breathing..along with sweating and rapid heart rate..I was also rather pale, however I do have episodes of flushing and chills on occasion. I just got out of the hospital after 3 days for what they call an anxiety attack. My pulse ox was checked during sleep while I was there and never got below 96. When I was awake i... more
I have a problem with waking up gasping for air, as if I stopped breathing, as I drift off to sleep. This has ONLY happened to me 3 times in the past month and only in the early or beginning stages of sleep. It also occurred once while I was in Tennessee 8 years ago. I'm under a lot of stress now and was when I was in Tennessee too. I was wonderin... more
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