
Panic Attacks Support Group
A panic attack is a period of intense fear or discomfort, typically with an abrupt onset and usually lasting no more than thirty minutes. Symptoms include trembling, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, sweating, nausea, dizziness, hyperventilation, and sensations of choking or smothering. Panic attacks can be very sudden, appear to be unprovoked, and are often...

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Ok guys, as you all know well most of you since my anxiety started a year and half ago I have yet to go one day were I didn't feel like death. I mean elevated heart rate it is at about 80 BPM when I think prior to my anxiety it use to be around 65 I have no idea I am a smoker.
Trying to quit. I am 27 and feel like I am 72. Every morning I get up my body is sore and my left side of my chest hurts. My mind stay uneasy all day even worse on days I have to goto work. I feel like I could pass out at any moment at work and feel like general hell.
Mind you I have yet to get a break from this it goes on and on and on everyday.
I have trouble leaving the house and in the mornings all I do is sit in front of the computer looking for answers.
I keep thinking the doc missed something. I have been to the ER at least 10 times. Seen 3 heart docs and my doctor refuses to run any more tests till I try her meds. I have tried meds in the past and they didn't do anything for me. So now I am trying zoloft as a last hope in meds.
Anyone out their like this. Barley hanging by day by day. Not a panic attack a day or once a month but full blow anxiety almost all day everyday.
Trying to quit. I am 27 and feel like I am 72. Every morning I get up my body is sore and my left side of my chest hurts. My mind stay uneasy all day even worse on days I have to goto work. I feel like I could pass out at any moment at work and feel like general hell.
Mind you I have yet to get a break from this it goes on and on and on everyday.
I have trouble leaving the house and in the mornings all I do is sit in front of the computer looking for answers.
I keep thinking the doc missed something. I have been to the ER at least 10 times. Seen 3 heart docs and my doctor refuses to run any more tests till I try her meds. I have tried meds in the past and they didn't do anything for me. So now I am trying zoloft as a last hope in meds.
Anyone out their like this. Barley hanging by day by day. Not a panic attack a day or once a month but full blow anxiety almost all day everyday.
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I know exactly what you are feeling, I suffer from anxiety and panic attacks and my heart is always beating really fast. I dont take any medication and deal with my panic and anxiety just by breathing and changing my way of thinking. I have only just gone back to work after having 8 weeks off work. I never used to believe the doc when he said i was ok and it is just anxiety.
I wake up most days feeling crap and sometimes i feel like i want to curl up in a ball and not face the world.
I know its hard but you will feel better.
I never thought i would be able to return to work but i have. You need to start believing that there is nothing wrong with you and that it is just anxiety (its hard i know) but if the tests are fine then that means that you are fine too!
continue taking your zoloft as it may well help you to feel better.
Just believe in yourself and things will get better - trust me i know!!
take care xx
Since i've started CBT, i've learned what happens to me and how it's ME that causes it to get to that state.
It's a viscious cycle. You feel anxious, you try to find logical reasons why, you start all the 'what if...' internal analyzing, you panic more, your body gets ready for fight or flight, then...BANG!...nasty. Once it's all over, you are scared of it happening again and start to ask the 'what ifs' and the cycle continues.
Now I know that's it all my doing and it's only me that can change it, i'm on the way to dealing with it.
If I only put negative emotions into my life, what else can I expect back.
- Stu
I also take no meds for my anxiety which is caused by the chronic pain i endure.
I am back on effexor and just had the dosage upped again. I have had a couple of days where I still had the anxiety but not as severe.
My pdoc told me yesterday that it really takes 6-8 weeks to feel some improvement from the medications. The medication may never get rid of my anxiety completely, but if it at least lessens it then that will be good. I have most days were I shake and feel sick all day with anxiety.
Trying to do stuff and distract myself hasn't worked either. I just started a part time job and now that is creating added anxiety because it is just a retail job working long hours and late nights. I feel really stuck in my lousy life.