does anyone else deal with...

[yougetthesmiles]

Anxiety attacks? I have been hesitant to ask this question, for 1 I don't want you all to think I'm a whack job! Cause I'm not lol But I do have issues with panic attacks, they started about 2 and a half years ago, after I was bitten by the Doberman we had adopted. He tore my bottom lip in half right in front of my 2 smaller children. I had to have apx 22 stitches in my mouth. Thats how I come to love the Yorkie breed! For one I opted not to have a bigger dog, (yes I have a Husky and she is bigger, but I have had her since she was a pup, I think that helps, but you still never know what a dog can do.) I started having bad nightmares about the attack and I used the Yorkie to help me deal with them and ease the pain, I was so gong hoe on getting one, thats all I could think about! I drank, ate and slept Yorkies!!!!
So I have these attacks and I feel like a big truck is sitting on my chest and my heart will race so fast! I get numbness in my hands, I will get very cold and start to shake and have really bad dry mouth. At first I thought I was having a heart attack and actually wound up in the hospital, only to find out I was fine and i was dealing with anxiety.
I'm not on any medication but I have thought about counceling. I guess I don't trust doctors and medication scares me with all the side effects. So here I'am to deal with all this. I was doing so well until Kloey left me and they all came back. I mostly get them in the evening when it starts getting dark. My head will just run wild and it wont shut up. OK now you all probably think I'm a whack job!
I'm not, I'm really normal lol I just have this issue and I don't know how to deal with it. Until you have these attacks, it's hard to explain. I could sure use some advice, if anyone else has delt with this, I sure would like to know I'm not alone.

[chechinmipo]

I am with you on this. I also started with this about 2 years ago. Why I am not sure but I think it was a combination of family and work related stress. It first started on night and my heart started palpitating really bad. Then it stopped and then it kept happening permanently in the night . I got up and told my sister who is in the medical field . I felt horrible like I was going to have a heart attack. I felt shortness of breath, numbness in my arms and face. Ofcourse horrible palpitation , temperature shifts and sensory disturbance. Sad to say they continued after that . I went then to the doctor who perscribed my alprazolam which if F$%#ing addictive it work for a couple of weeks and then my body would ask for more and more. Good thing I always had the gutts to spoke myself. Then when stoping this medication the withdrawal symptoms were those that I was being treated for. My symptoms from Anxiety/Panick Attacks were constant motion sickness, this made me miserable, then sensory disturbance (twitching) , pain in my facial muscles, numbness in my arms legs face. Ofcourse my palpitation, nausea etc..... My sister even called me a hypocondriac a some point but no one knows that we feel these symptoms only us whom are going through this. I must say I am much better now but still on medication and on days when i forget to take it I feel really sick. I really hope some day I am able to get off my medication and be my normal self again. Needless to say in the begining when all this started I ended up the ER 7 times in one day because of thse symptoms. If your ever feel you need to talk to someone who will listen don't hesistate to PM me I will support and comfort you when needed.

[yougetthesmiles]

Originally Posted by chechinmipo

I am with you on this. I also started with this about 2 years ago. Why I am not sure but I think it was a combination of family and work related stress. It first started on night and my heart started palpitating really bad. Then it stopped and then it kept happening permanently in the night . I got up and told my sister who is in the medical field . I felt horrible like I was going to have a heart attack. I felt shortness of breath, numbness in my arms and face. Ofcourse horrible palpitation , temperature shifts and sensory disturbance. Sad to say they continued after that . I went then to the doctor who perscribed my alprazolam which if F$%#ing addictive it work for a couple of weeks and then my body would ask for more and more. Good thing I always had the gutts to spoke myself. Then when stoping this medication the withdrawal symptoms were those that I was being treated for. My symptoms from Anxiety/Panick Attacks were constant motion sickness, this made me miserable, then sensory disturbance (twitching) , pain in my facial muscles, numbness in my arms legs face. Ofcourse my palpitation, nausea etc..... My sister even called me a hypocondriac a some point but no one knows that we feel these symptoms only us whom are going through this. I must say I am much better now but still on medication and on days when i forget to take it I feel really sick. I really hope some day I am able to get off my medication and be my normal self again. Needless to say in the begining when all this started I ended up the ER 7 times in one day because of thse symptoms. If your ever feel you need to talk to someone who will listen don't hesistate to PM me I will support and comfort you when needed.

I have a lot of the same symptoms, specially the nausea, when ever I eat something I just feel so sick to my stomach. I feel so bad cause i feel I'm a burdon to my family, I to feel I'm a hypo, but I dont go to the doctor, I just deal with it cause I dont want people to think that of me cause I know I'm not. I talked to my hubby tonight and he said I should seek counceling first and then take it from there. I just hate doing that though, but if it will help me then I guess thats what I need to do. I'm tired of not having any energy and always feeling bad! I want to overcome this!
Thanks alot for offering your help, I may take you up on that. So what meds are you on for it? Do you have any side effects?

[chechinmipo]

Originally Posted by yougetthesmiles

Anxiety attacks? I have been hesitant to ask this question, for 1 I don't want you all to think I'm a whack job! Cause I'm not lol But I do have issues with panic attacks, they started about 2 and a half years ago, after I was bitten by the Doberman we had adopted. He tore my bottom lip in half right in front of my 2 smaller children. I had to have apx 22 stitches in my mouth. Thats how I come to love the Yorkie breed! For one I opted not to have a bigger dog, (yes I have a Husky and she is bigger, but I have had her since she was a pup, I think that helps, but you still never know what a dog can do.) I started having bad nightmares about the attack and I used the Yorkie to help me deal with them and ease the pain, I was so gong hoe on getting one, thats all I could think about! I drank, ate and slept Yorkies!!!!
So I have these attacks and I feel like a big truck is sitting on my chest and my heart will race so fast! I get numbness in my hands, I will get very cold and start to shake and have really bad dry mouth. At first I thought I was having a heart attack and actually wound up in the hospital, only to find out I was fine and i was dealing with anxiety.
I'm not on any medication but I have thought about counceling. I guess I don't trust doctors and medication scares me with all the side effects. So here I'am to deal with all this. I was doing so well until Kloey left me and they all came back. I mostly get them in the evening when it starts getting dark. My head will just run wild and it wont shut up. OK now you all probably think I'm a whack job!
I'm not, I'm really normal lol I just have this issue and I don't know how to deal with it. Until you have these attacks, it's hard to explain. I could sure use some advice, if anyone else has delt with this, I sure would like to know I'm not alone.

I truely commend you for not taking medication. For these kinds of issues most medication is addictive and if I would have had a choice I would have never taken any. Try the counselling before the meds. If that doesn't work then maybe you will have to consider it. I had no choice as my crap was just draining me I lost my apetite, felt like dying because no doctor fund anything wrong and I knew all the stuff I was feeling and going through on a daily basis. Yes, we are perfectly normal people its just some events in our life have triggered this issue and messed with the levels of Seratonin and Gaba in our brains. These are chemicals in charge of calming or alerting our state of being.

[chechinmipo]

Originally Posted by yougetthesmiles

I have a lot of the same symptoms, specially the nausea, when ever I eat something I just feel so sick to my stomach. I feel so bad cause i feel I'm a burdon to my family, I to feel I'm a hypo, but I dont go to the doctor, I just deal with it cause I dont want people to think that of me cause I know I'm not. I talked to my hubby tonight and he said I should seek counceling first and then take it from there. I just hate doing that though, but if it will help me then I guess thats what I need to do. I'm tired of not having any energy and always feeling bad! I want to overcome this!
Thanks alot for offering your help, I may take you up on that. So what meds are you on for it? Do you have any side effects?

I am on Effexor and it was my savior. It has been the only medication to rid me of my constant motion sickness of two years which was my chief complaint. I only have to take one a day versus three of the Zantac. I must admit thought I think it is addictive to a point cause when I don't take it I get all my weird stuff again. Side effects at the begging where sorry diarrehea for like a week, jaw clentching and dry mouth. Now I don't have any of those unless I stop taking it and start over again. I have to say though that this was the medication that brought me almost back to normality. At some point in the begging because of my motions sickness I would even leave my house as I felt just from walking really dissy and naseuos and this made me feel like I was going to pass out thus triggering my panic/anxiety attacks.

[chechinmipo]

By the way my girl was of great help to me also because I felt lonely at the time and I had wanted a dog for a long time. So she arrive and it gave me something else to set my mind on rather than truing to anticipate when the next episode would be or freaking out over every feeling i had.

[yougetthesmiles]

I have had the motion sickness as well, but not as much, my sympotoms like to change, I dont know why though.
I was reading this site and it was showing all symptoms of menapause and out of 34 symptoms, I have like 28 of them!!!! and I'm only 31!!!!!!!!
http://www.power-surge.com/educate/34symptoms.htm
It just cant be that, but I thought maybe I was having anxiety cause of a hormone imbalance. Cause it seems to get worse the closer I get to my period.

[chechinmipo]

Originally Posted by yougetthesmiles

I have had the motion sickness as well, but not as much, my sympotoms like to change, I dont know why though.
I was reading this site and it was showing all symptoms of menapause and out of 34 symptoms, I have like 28 of them!!!! and I'm only 31!!!!!!!!
http://www.power-surge.com/educate/34symptoms.htm
It just cant be that, but I thought maybe I was having anxiety cause of a hormone imbalance. Cause it seems to get worse the closer I get to my period.

You know with the symptoms we get the first thing we want to do is associate them to a disease or something so that we can actually say soemthing is wrong you know. We feel so many symptoms that it just doesn't fit that it just cause of anxiety. When I first had this I thought "I wouldn't mind getting diagnosed with brain cancer , because of the migranes, headaches and facial muscles pain, so long as it where something. I requested MRI for the longest time and doctors never approved them beause they never felt it neccesary. When I finally had one done, after bugging the life out of ny doctor nothing turned out. When I have blood work done several time nothing would show either. I was even told by a doctor that my blood work was far better than good. So I know it just sucks but its the got darn anxiety/panik.

[yougetthesmiles]

I wish I could just understand this better cause I'm the same way, I will have these un-explainable pains and I will say "ohh god, I have cancer" or I will have these bad headaches and will thinks it's a brain aneurysm, and my mind will just keep telling me all sorts of crap! I hate the night time cause I'm scared I will die. One night I was so bad, when my hubby was home I made him get up and go to the bathroom with me, now thats pretty pathetic! But bless his heart he got up at 2am with me and took me peee lol
I just hate this and thats why I'm up at 2:30 in the morning!

[chechinmipo]

You will really like this site. check it out it will probably answer many of your questions www.mentalhealth.com

[baby03]

You both are not alone!! I too am such an anxious person it is not even funny. My daughter also has the panic attacks. Once we were at a restaurant and she had one. She said she felt like her heart was pounding and she started to choke and gasp for air. It lasted a while. I got her help, but she was not comfortable with the meds. She too feels numbness in her hands!!

[yougetthesmiles]

I was told this is hereditary, My father has delt with it and so has my brother and I fear my kids will have to deal with it as well! My husband just don't understand and a lot of the times i will be having an attack and keep it quiet cause I'm afraid he will think I'm a hypo, he knows I have them but he just don't know how bad.

[baby03]

It is hereditary!!! You are not a hypo. I feel for you because people thought my daughter was a hypo for a long time. Teachers thought she just wanted attention. I didn't even know I had it. When I found out I had it her symptoms made sense. She would not have struggled so much in school if I had known. You are way ahead of the game because your children are young and you are educating yourself on it now. You will know what to look for and be prepared.

[chechinmipo]

Originally Posted by yougetthesmiles

I was told this is hereditary, My father has delt with it and so has my brother and I fear my kids will have to deal with it as well! My husband just don't understand and a lot of the times i will be having an attack and keep it quiet cause I'm afraid he will think I'm a hypo, he knows I have them but he just don't know how bad.

Don't ever feel afraid of what people are going to think. That just adds to your stress. If you can't count on your husband to understand than who will. Even if he doesn't just let everything take its course. He will come to turns once he sees your suffer . When I was sick my biggest support was my father I first got sick I was 21 now I am going to be 23 and am not out of the whole yet. Anyways he supported me uncoditionally to my amusement and saw me cry and even cried with me because of my suffering. Never in my wildest dreams would i hane thought this. He is a manly man if you know what i mean but he really was great with me. As for it being hereditary I have heard of this but I believe stress has alot to do with it also. Funny my dad started getting this one week but then God it hasn't taken over him like it has us. He took meds for a day or two and now I think and hope he isn't taking them and is as fine as new.

[chechinmipo]

Originally Posted by baby03

It is hereditary!!! You are not a hypo. I feel for you because people thought my daughter was a hypo for a long time. Teachers thought she just wanted attention. I didn't even know I had it. When I found out I had it her symptoms made sense. She would not have struggled so much in school if I had known. You are way ahead of the game because your children are young and you are educating yourself on it now. You will know what to look for and be prepared.

My mom is a non med kind of person. Her meds are from nature. She would give me all kinds of teas when I was in her care and would tell me to get of the meds but when I tried it everytime I would get all the rollercoaster again. I took her teas and everything so she would see i was wealling to see that I was in the best disposition to do whatever it took to rid myself of this. She also at times tought it was just , I don't know but she wasn't with me in this 100% . She did get me a psychologist but I don't feel that helped. I then tried a counseler here in Modesto and he recommended resperation therapy and hypnosis but every time he gave me advice it was like he was reading from a pamphlet and I just got done waisting my time with him.