Morning Anxiety- lasts until mid afternoon

Hi all, I am new to healingwell. Just wanted to ask if anyone has had experience with waking up with physical anxiety in the chest area...and it lasts until at least noon (starting about 8am when I wake up) and often until mid afternoon. It started on April 26, and I have a theory that it is from high cortisol levels that are being caused by my sleep apnea (OSA) getting worse (don't know why after 7 years it suddenly gets worse?) and my CPAP machine not adequately treating it. Another clue is my blood sugar is also up about 40 points (fasting) which can be from high cortisol too. I had routine scheduled appointments with my pain doc, my psychiatrist and my cardiologist and none of them had a clue about the morning anxiety, and didn't seem interested in investigating it either, which was upsetting. Fortunately I had my yearly check up with my sleep doc, and they tested my overnight oxygen levels and discovered the sleep apnea breakthrough. So I am in the middle of the sleep studies to get retitrated to the pressure needed....but it takes weeks to get the results and appointment for the doc. Meanwhile, between the anxiety and fibromyalgia I am non functional most of the day, depressed, and praying this gets fixed! I have GAD with panic already, for which I have been on xanax XR 1 mg 4x day and buspar 45 mg/day for years.
If any of this sounds familiar, I'd like to know how your situation worked out.
Oh, I'm using an herbal called ashwaghanda on advice from my psychiatrist, to help reduce the cortisol for now. It may be helping, it's hard to tell...I guess the anxiety could be worse without it but I don't really want to experiment to find out.

I am sorry that you are dealing with this! I know the pain you are going through, I have been a sufferer of anxiety disorders and panic disorders for 9 years. It has gotten so bad to the point where I could not even go outside.

I would not recommend you take anti anxiety meds in long term as they can lead to terrible withdrawls, some would consider worse than heroin.

There are techniques you can use for anxiety and panic attacks if you just do some reasearch you will find lots of info.

I would check out anxiousreview . com

If I were you, its a good read and was very helpful to me at one point, although I still get anxiety its not nearly as bad as it used to be.

Hope I was helpful to you!

I deal with this every morning.... IT wakes me up! And I am on a lot of meds and yet it still breaks thru!!!! This has been going on since January. I have suffered w panic anxiety and agoraphobia for 23 years. I am sorry you're dealing w this and even more sorry that I can not give you any good advice.