Cant help you im afraid but i get that anxiety on waking in the morning quite often. On the days that i dont have anxiety i feel depressed! Wish i had a solution too! Good luck, hope someone can help! x

I found it came from anxiety dreams, I woke up in a panic. My Pdoc prescribed Seroquel and I'm all better now.

I used to do it all the time as if someone scared me to death in my sleep but I never remembered dreaming. Suddenly I would be thinking of every crazy thing possible that under normal circumstances would not even bother me. Silly things like how much laundry I had to do would send me through the roof.

I took seroquel for a while which helped tremendously, however, I dont need anything anymore. Since I have stabilized I dont have trouble sleeping or with anxiety. I think anxiety is sometimes a byproduct of hypo mania or mania. At least for me it was.

Lithium has worked wonders for me.

I used to get it all the time on waking in the morning an hour or so before having to get up..lithium stopped that.

I do get it in night if I get woken up, it's usually the cats crashing around and I even semi-consciously know that but even so I get a big anxiety wave that can keep me awake for an hour or so.

I have chronic anxiety just like you. I take klonopin for it and it usually improves in about 30 minutes. Don't know what causes it.

Did you have the anxiety prior to starting Lamictal? I have noticed the same type of anxiety you describe since I started Lamictal. I will wake up in the middle of the night and instantly feel very anxious. It doesn't happen every night, but at least several times a week.

I know what you mean about waking up sick to my stomach with anxiety and fear that I can't trace back to thoughts. I found that some meds did it to me. I'm finding that vigorous exercise is helping to relieve and prevent it. I use Klonopin for general anxiety.

I lay down and feel that. I can't even get to sleep most of the time.

If I wake up - I get up and have a cup of tea or something light to eat.

I never see the point in being in bed if you are anxious or can't sleep.

Yes I have felt that way.
Its the mornings that are the worst.

I wake up almost every night ,at 4 AM(almost always right on the dot!)...with major anxiety...sometimes I can bring myself to a calm place,by reminding myself,it's only anxiety...other times ,I have to take a Xanax.

Weird thing is,I take 2 Klonopin ,just before bed,so THAT should take care of night time anxiety?

Pdoc has no explanation,just says use the Xanax when it's too bad to handle.

Yes, that happens to me, and I hate it. Sometimes I go to sleep anxious and hope to wake up ok, and it is worse. Sometimes I go to sleep OK, and wake up with a full blown panic attack. I have no idea what brings it on, but I just cry myself back to sleep.