I just found this group, and I was hoping to get some advice. For the past year my anxiety has been getting worse. It got so bad last April, I broke down and went to see a Dr because I was having spells where I would be driving or working and I would zone out. My Dr. put me on some anti-anxiety medicine that made me sleep all day. Well after about four days, I couldn’t get up and go to work, I stopped taking the stuff. The anxiety died down for awhile, then over the past few weeks, I have been waking up with nausea and tension headaches. It usually fades around mid morning and then comes back in the evening. My dreams are all kinds of weird, stressful things. My life is a little hectic, but nothing close to unmanagable. Anyone else deal with waking up with a nervous stomach or tension headaches and what do you do about it?
I have terrible anxiety. i have been trying self hypnosis and sure hope it works. have been suffering with it for 3 years now and I have every symptom imaginable.
Is there anyone else that suffers from panic attacks who might be pregnant or who did suffer when they were pregnant, and what did you do about it?
hi, i’m new on here & have just been reading thru some of this. Limabean, I know exactly what you mean when you say so much pressure inside of you. It’s odd, & strangely comforting to see someone else say it. I don’t have any answers yet. Anxiety, at least at the unmanageable level, is newer to me. I’ve had low level depression for many years with periods of major depression. I’ve always, looking back, had anxiety problems & never looked at it consciously, but over the past few years it’s been getting worse & worse. I used to worry about money & bills all the time. Then I came down with some illnesses & started worrying about those. Then I got divorced & worried about my life, my future. Then my illnesses got worse, & continue to get worse, so now I’m worried about how I will survive financially, how bad will things get physically, how much pain will I have to go thru, etc. etc. I also have social anxiety & phobia which is getting worse & worse. If I come up with anything that actually works I will post it on here. I too have tried many, many medications. Xanax calms me down but makes me very tired & it’s addicting. I can’t take anti-depressants at all. I found out I am serotonin sensitive which means they actually make me more depressed or emotional!
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i do and the thing is i am anxious about everything. and so being scared of feeling sick dosnt help when i feel like that. breath slowly and relax.
Gosh …I felt just like you. I would always have to plan things so far in advance it would drive me and every one I knew crazy. I would squedule all my appointments like a year in advance and have to have everything lined up before bed my clothes or I would think about it all night and get up to do it. little things bothered me, especially bills. I would wake in the middle of the night with my calculator trying to figure out things. Then my heart would race and I would feel faint and then think i was dying…a panic attack would set in. I almost didnt finish giving zoloft a try, I to felt like I was in a haze …like I was outside of my body…weird. and I was sick and shaky…all the side effects on the bottle I had em. For about a month. Then one day I felt like I jumped back into my body and was “me” again. I was feeling so much better. Im lucky to have insurance because I know zoloft is very expensive…But good news they have a generic zoloft now and its much…much cheaper. Maybe you should check it out and try to see if you can get past the side effects …knowing its going to work for you might help.