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Originally Posted by yougetthesmiles my counsler said once you have a pantic attack, your body is trained to have them and can go into them at anytime. Mine usually come in the evening and it sure makes it hard to sleep. |
Don't give up. About 2 years ago I was under an extreme amount of stress at my job. Just out of the blue while laying down I started feeling a heaviness in my chest and it was hard to breath. I jumped out bed and started walking around to try to shake it off, but it didn't help. I finally told my husband to take me to the ER because I really thought I was going to die. That's the panic. After running all sort of tests they decided to give me Ativan. Within 30 minutes all of my symptoms were gone. I couldn't believe it. I went to see my regular doctor for follow-up and he put me on Zoloft. This stuff almost killed me. I started having sucide thoughts and became extremely depressed and lost alot of weight. I tried to tell them that I wasn't depressed to begin with, but I was under alot of stress. I began searching the internet for people with the same symptoms as mine and ended up doing cognitive therapy. I now can actually talk myself out of a anxiety attack when I start feeling one coming on. I am not one to take medicines and Ativan is addicting so I felt I needed another alternative. My symptoms are a little differant than most peoples. My sinuses start swelling to where I can't breath out of my nose and then it just goes down hill from there. Something that really worked for me was to count from 100 backwads by 3's. This takes your mind off of the symptoms and relaxes you. I still keep ativan in my purse for security even though it's been about 2 years since I've taken one. I hop everything works out for you.