waking up with anxiety

Hi Butterfly,

I pace. It's not a conscious thing though. When I realize I'm doing it I usually sit down and try to calm down. I wake up with anxiety a lot probably because of the nightmares (PTSD). With me it's heart palpitations and tremors in the morning. Usually if I start pacing it because of some sort of trigger I didn't even notice or a new bit of stress has set me off.

I certainly have tried the "keep busy" approach to managing anxiety just doesn't work for me. If walking calms you down then it's probably not a bad thing. If it's making it worse then you need to change something I would think?

I'm probably not much help, we're all different, it effects us all differently.

Best wishes and peace,
Buddha

countrybttrfly

Welcome to HealingWell and the A & P forum.  I know we had a thread not long ago on this very subject. 

When you wake up at 4:00 AM can you take the other 1/2 of your xanax, the .125 mg? And just picture pleasant scenes in your mind where you sleeping on a beautiful beach?

I will look for the other thread for you. I am sorry, I could not find it and I went back 300 posts..............the title of the post does not reflect the pacing members were talking about.

Keep posting.

Again Welcome

Kitt

PANIC ATTACKS••
I'm sharing my experieces with this in order to maybe help others.
I awake from a short sleep always at night with a rapid heart beat. I'm on buspar now and it seems to help.
Now I have only experienced these attcks about 3 times in the last 6 months. But before buspar I had them 3 times a week. I wake up feel tense. Usually I turn on the TV but I never do anything physical.I set up in bed. I try and watch tv to get my mind off of the near panic I'm experiecing. Sometimes I can do this . Last night I had been to sleep for 2 hours, sometimes dreaming. Woke up to slightly accellerated heart beat.Tried to keep my mind off of it but it didnt work. I can feel the "rush" so to speak into my arms and the anxeity increasing Now my heart is getting faster etc sweating under arm slight shakyness .

Here is what I do.... Grab a small piece of xanex 1/4 /1/2 of a pill. grab a plastic bag and start breathing into concentrating on the breathing not fast just normal breathing.Sometimes it takes 15 min. sometimes 35 min. I try not to think of anything but the sound of that bag as I breathe into it. Sometimes you think its about over and i get that rush feeling into my arms and starts again

My advise to all is to go to the doctor and let he do some tests on your heart so you can rule this out, as most people are worried about the rapid heartbeat associated with these attacks. Buspar does work. I just donot take the 30 mg a day as prescribed. A whole pill (15 mg) taken at once makes me dizzy and tired so I take half in the morning 5 mg at noon another 1/2 at night.

Funny thing as in the summer i donot have these problems

it a mind over manner thing i believe..

Sorry I was just trying to explain what I do to handle anxiety attacks at night. Everyone's experience with these attacks is different.
Countrybuttrfly wrote that he or she gets up with anxiety and goes for a walk. The last time I got up to take a walk from anxiety attack my heart rate was about 135 beats a min. I ended up in the E.R. not knowing what was happening.Now I understand what is happening to me.

I wasn't sure if I was to share my experieces with anxiety or not on this site

. YES I TAKE THE ZANEX, OF COURSE WITH a glass of Water. At this stage of the attack my heart rate is above 100 per min. so walking around is not what will help me.I lay as still as possible or sit still. I then breathe into a plastic bag as told by my doctor. When someone has a panic or anxiety attack, it's too easy to hyperventilate. This just aggravates the condition. By breathing into a paper bag, the person is forced to rebreathe some of his/her own carbon dioxide, preventing hyperventilation and easing some of the symptoms of the attack.
YES, i ONLY TAKE 22.5 mg OF BUSPAR instead of the 30 I have been prescribed. That is enough for me for now. Others may need more.
Today I saw my Doctor again. He thinks that my 5 hours of sleep each night is not enough and that this my be causing the less frequent attacks I have been having over the last 6 months. (Only about 3 attacks compared to 3 a week before buspar) Like countrybuttrfly I to wake in the morning 1 or 2 times. Sometimes I get back to sleep other times I wake nervous with rapid heart beat.Most of the time this rapid heart beat slows down.

 

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