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Posted 3/1/2012 10:17 PM (GMT 0)
Every time I wake up in the middle of the night and sometimes in the AM my heart will be racing... and I will feel panicked... Its so weird like I am having anxiety in my sleep or something. I usually relax and it stops or goes away sometimes I will be having a bad dream (like yesterday) and it will be pretty scary...

BTW I have had a cardio workup, everything is normal...

Another fibro thing??? I never had anxiety issues till I had all this weird unexplained stuff and was going to doc after doc not able to find anything wrong. Since all my normal workups and the fibro (non fatal) diagnosis I have calmed down a lot but this persists its just the strangest thing...
Posted 3/1/2012 11:28 PM (GMT 0)
Kay,

Are you on any meds that could be causing this?  A lot of the fibro drugs they give us can scramble our brains....I know they sure have scrambled mine...  turn ...my brother and SIL couldn't take Nortriptyline, (which I take) because it gave them awful nightmares.

I'm not making light of this, because it can be really scary.  I, too, have a fast-beating heart sometimes, and was given the "benign" diagnosis when they finally caught it on an EEG.  EKG?  KGB?  Whatever it is...I think the doc called it "sinus tachycardia," & said not to worry. 

Lately, I've been getting all kinds of jerking when I'm trying to fall asleep.  Last night, my left leg (the one that's driving me nuts with Sciatica) jerked so hard I thought I'd pulled a muscle.  Talk about anxiety...

Debbie

Posted 3/1/2012 11:47 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Kay,

It sounds like anxiety to me too. I would talk to your doctor about it to make sure. Perhaps there is something you could take to ease the anxiety.

I hope that you feel better soon.

Hugs, Karen
Posted 3/2/2012 3:56 AM (GMT 0)
It is also possible that you have sleep apnea. When mine was really acting up, I would stop breathing so many times that my heart would start to race.

I would definitely not ignore this. Hopefully you are comfortable talking to your Primary Care Dr. It might be a simple fix, so try not to worry.
Posted 3/3/2012 3:17 AM (GMT 0)
Its your mind,, its not shutting down at night,, you may be asleep,, but teh mind is still going 100MPH,, best you can do is try to relax in the evening as best you can,, dont watch anything that can get you over stimulated,, you will take that stimulation to bed, and it wil lget added to the anxiety you allready have, no caffeine, no pop,, no snacks, nothing that will make you keyed up before bed,, ya,, easy to say,, and i;lm as guilty as the rest, but I do most of my eating in teh evening,, during the day, I am just to sick to eat,,
Posted 3/3/2012 5:15 AM (GMT 0)
Also I don't know your age but....I am just throwing this out there because it happened to me it happens to me when I wake up with hotflashes (who knew you could sweat behind your knees even????) LOL Or now this was a major problem for me and I know that one of the trmts for Fibro is antidepressants......I have a type of BiPolar that is called I think BiPolar 2 that is a certain type of depression. When I go on anti dep they make me completely manic....and manic for me is perpetual constant draining mind mood and body altering panic attacks. If you have started a new med within the last month especially if it is thyroid med or anti dep you may want to just run it past the dr.
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