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Posted 1/23/2012 1:08 AM (GMT 0)
I've been dealing with this panic thing since last June now and it just doesn't seem to give me much of a break. Sometimes I'll go a week or two with low stress and then an attack will spiral me into another two weeks of panic symptoms everyday.

I am having such a hard time, am so tired of feeling tired and feeling sick. I almost fainted while grocery shopping today. I just want my life back. I'm just so sad and so at a loss. Is there anyone else out there that can understand this? Is healing supposed to take this long?

Posted 1/23/2012 1:22 AM (GMT 0)
everytime i go in shower or in store i feel light headed lie ima pass out
i think its all in my head and im really not gonna pass out but i always feel lightheaded
celexa is helping it slowly been on 10mg for 4 weeks
Posted 1/23/2012 1:56 AM (GMT 0)
So sorry to hear you struggling with this. I can completely relate. I have been having severe attacks for about 4-5 days. Finally went to urgent care today because me face was going numb. Of course panic attack was all it was of course. They gave me Prozac and klonopin that I took years ago. Klonopin Seems to be helping some.
I hope you get relief!
Posted 1/23/2012 2:54 AM (GMT 0)
when i first got my attacks a few months ago my face and lips left side were always numb
went to the ER 16 times for it they thought i was crazy
Posted 1/23/2012 2:48 PM (GMT 0)
ShootingStar

I understand exactly what your feeling. My mantra for a long time was " I want my life back". I have now changed it to "I am OK". The hardest part of having anxiety is accepting that this is part of your life. Once you can do that then you will realize that life is always changing and we cannot go back, we cannot predict the future but we can to learn to stay in the moment.

There is a great free online therapy that you can work on from home called MoodGYM. It is a CBT program.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is based on the idea that our thoughts
cause our feelings and behaviors, not external things, like people, situations, and events. The benefit of this fact is that we can change the way we think to feel / act better even if the situation does not change.
Here is the link for this progam. At first it may seem kind of simple but keep at it and you will find it to be very helpful.
http://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome
Coming here and talking with us is a great way to let out your fears so please feel free to vent, share, ask questions and know we understand where your coming from.
Kindly,
Kitt
Posted 1/23/2012 8:14 PM (GMT 0)
Hello, Shooting

While I think a lot of your stress could definitely be stress and panic, I would also like you to consider msg (monosodium glutamate) to be something that is causing part of this possibly. My reasoning is, for about 10 years I was going through spells exactly like you are describing, then I met a man who I told all this stuff to, he is a chemist, but had a background in healthy eating and supplements, he asked me what I had been eating regularly, I explained it, he suggested I try to get away from all glutamates and fluoride to see how it affected me, thinking "well nothing else has worked and what do I have to lose?" was all that went through my head, I would have terrible panic attacks, I would get clammy sometimes and going through the grocery store I felt like I was going to faint, and just felt ill, and as someone else said, the shower too, not sure why that happened but, I think it was panic, anyway, I got off all the glutamates and fluoride (tap water, toothpaste), I went to distilled water with cooking and to Tom's toothpaste without fluoride, within a week or two I was pretty much cured from all the strange feelings of faintness and the like, I still have panic attacks now and then but, not with the added side effects, I think that I'm sensitive to some other things, we've narrowed it down to red food coloring and possibly blue, and .....gluten. ><

I think a lot of us have food sensitivities and its causing side effects like panic, but the doctors don't seem to take this into consideration, my panic attacks now are nothing like what they used to be, even though I still have a sickness phobia thinking I will get terribly sick, I don't have the panic like I used to. Thank God.

While thinking about it, one thing that always bothered me about doctors is they all seem to say "ITS STRESS" which in some cases it is very likely, but, we know our bodies best, and if you don't feel more stressed than normal or if nothing in your life has changed to cause a lot of stress then why on earth would they push you to believe it HAS TO BE STRESS? Anyway, if it weren't for the guy I met and he telling me about the side effects of glutamates and such I NEVER would have known and would still be going through pure hell.
Posted 1/24/2012 5:50 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks stkitt, that's what my psychologist told me. I know that I've had general anxiety for a while, and can even root some attacks back to being a teenager, apparently it tends to come on most commonly in early 20s or late 30s. The worst part is the anticipation. I notice the less I think about it the better I feel, but I still am getting odd side effects.

Jessiepooh, did you ever have and food allergy testing done? Would that tell me what's going on? The way I eat certainty seems to have a lot to do with how I feel. I'm not hypoglycemic or any of that but I'm thinking maybe it's something else...

It's weird;I'll be fine for 3 weeks out of the month and then one week will just suck. I know anti-depressants are available, but I figure I would have to get off of them eventually anyhow. Do any of you guys though, take something that helps you? Does it make you feel like a different person? I'm afraid of the side effects...I took Effexor one time for a few days and now I'm traumatized.
Posted 1/24/2012 2:02 PM (GMT 0)
I am not real familiar with food allergy testing so I don't have much to contribute to that topic but I am sure others will have info for you.

One thing caught my eye in your last post, "It's weird;I'll be fine for 3 weeks out of the month and then one week will just suck."

Have you ever kept a diary to see if this one week coincides with your monthly cycle - I am taking a leap of faith here in assuming you are female - if I am wrong well then skip this comment and consider this a moot point.

Couple of suggestions :

Plan your day. Having too much or too little to do can make you more anxious.

Keep a diary of your symptoms. Journal writing is an effective method of reducing your anxiety.

Confiding in others help relieve stress so keep on talking with us and know we are here to support you as well as we know how you feel.

Kindly,
Kitt
Posted 1/24/2012 7:03 PM (GMT 0)
Shooting,

I never took an allergy test I just started eliminating foods from my diet and adding them back later on to see what effects they had after being reintroduced, so process of elimination for me. Stkitt is on the right track I think in asking if its around your time of the month, it could be hormonal or even be something you eat when you have your cycle.

Try eating foods without glutamates, soy and such for a couple weeks and see how you feel. Make some food from scratch for a couple weeks, its time consuming at first but once you get the hang of it you can whip up anything in short order.
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