I get this exact thing happening. It really sucks yes. I wake up after soothing sleep & then the anxiety has to ruin it :(

that is me exactly....then at night I'm more relax...its a constant cycle.

I have had this happen too I wake up and first thing my heart is pounding and im having an attack :( Im sorry this happens to you!

Same here wake up & I can't stop breathing hard & my body is shaking & it sucks & is hard to deal with it scares me pretty badly I hate it as well
It's usually someone I don't have or something like my gf on my mind & I start worrying about why she hadn't text me yet & basically my anixety sets in & ruins my morning and gives me a massive headache

Yes, I wake up every single morning with this. The second I realize I'm awake and I think of everything I have to do that day, I get anxious. Since simple things like taking a shower and getting dressed can feel like climbing Mt. Everest, it really doesn't matter what is on my list for the day, I am always overwhelmed. Once I get up and start moving, the feeling passes within an hour or two but it's always a struggle to get myself out of bed.

This happened to me last night. I woke up around 3ish and my heart was pounding out of my chest I felt like I could barely breathe and felt really upset. It took me awhile to calm myself down.

This is how it is for me. As soon as I awake, I seem to be thinking of my abusive ex and I am anxious immeidately. Around about 6pm this starts to die down and I feel calmer, enough to go to sleep, only to awake at stupid oclock and it all repeats itself

I experience the exact same thing. I wake up and my heart is pounding out of my chest. It takes me a while to calm down and it feels like forever. I can say that I do understand and you are not alone. I get frustrated with my doctors because when I tell them this, they say they don't understand why its happening either-even I know it's from anxiety. Keep talking until someone listens. You are worth it.

My doctor and therapist both said they don't know what morning anxiety is about or what to do about it... I don't get it... until i got to DS, I thought I must be some weird freak with the morning anxiety only to arrive here and find out we're all suffering all morning! What gives? How come they don't know what to do about it?!

i wake up every morning with anxiety even before i have a chance to think anything. i'm also on xanax 3mg a day as well as other meds, but none seem to be knocking this out. anyone else have this experience where meds such as xanax aren't knocking out the anxiety?

I know what you mean. I woke up at 4:30am this morning,(I heard something), and couldn't go back to sleep because my mind was racing and anxiety had set in. Here's hoping we can find a way to beat this darned anxiety!

Wow, glad to know I'm not alone!

Sometimes I wake up with no anxious feelings, but the first thought I have is an obsessive one, the same one I've been having for weeks that causes so much anxiety, and so then I start panicking and having anxiety...

Sometimes I wake up with anxiety and then I think, 'well, there must be a reason i'm feeling this way!" and so I attribute the feelings to my obsession...make sense?

It's either Anxious Feelings that feed the Obsessive Thought OR vice-versa; Obsessive Thought that feeds the Anxious Feelings.

It's hard to sleep at night too....like I'm scared to go to sleep because I know I'll wake up anxious. Sometimes I sleep through the night, but sometimes I wake up multiple times a night feeling anxious with racing thoughts.

has anyone had any success with medicine knocking out the waking anxiety?

I haven't used meds yet... I just have lorazepam for night. It would probably work the same though, it's short-acting for the times when we feel extra anxious or when a panic attack is happening or about to happen...have you used Lorazepam (Ativan)?

i've used Ativan in the past, but currently i'm on 2mg of xanax a day and it does nothing to wipe out the anxiety i feel every morning i wake up. i would have thought xanax would have done the trick but it didn't.