Most of the time my panic attacks are pretty standard. Racing heart, sweating, shaking, intesne fear and the desire to flee.. I've gotten pretty used to them over the years and they don't hit me as...
I've had pretty painful jaw and neck pain the past 3 days. The left side of my neck more so than the right but in general it's been pretty painful. My first panic was tetnus, since I got cut by a...
Hello! I have been taking klonopin for 11 months. Actually, I'm tapering off of it now. I'm very anti medicine myself so I understand your husbands feelings on that. I got to a place where things...
I have had similar episodes from stress and anxiety. The fast rate has lasted long enough a few times to make me go to urgent care thinking there was something wrong. On top of that, have you asked...
While what you are experiencing may not be anxiety, you should consider the possibility. I know it's hard to believe at times, and I still struggle with accepting some of what I've been through as...
I recommend having further testing of your thyroid done. If possible, with a specialist. With your history, that shouldn't be a stretch to request. Many of your symptoms sound thyroid related to me,...
I've been dealing with thyroid issues for 5 years now. I had hyper for the first 4, and I have been experiencing hypo symtpoms for the past year. I've been told I have graves disease, and I've also...
I sometimes have night sweats and they seem to be related to a warm room and mild reflux. I went through episodes of night anxiety last year when I was dealing with symptoms that may have been...
Hello everyone, It's been a while since I posted, but I do come to read every so often. Ever since I started klonopin last year things have been so much more manageable. I've been working on getting...
Hey everyone. It's been a while, but here I am again. Ever since I started the Klonopin last year I've been doing well. I've been tapering for a while and I'm down to 40% of my original dose. Minimal...
Hello! I can relate to both your medication fear, and I also have food phobias That have come about fairly recently. I very rarely take medicine, but when I do I try to have some level of control...
I have one, and have seen that symbol a few times. Usually during a high stress moment, or a panic situation. I did some reading on it and from what I gathered they not only pick up true abnormal...
Pain$herlock, I'm not sure if I am misinterpreting what your saying, but your statement "what you are feeling is real it's never just anxiety" struck me as something that I wouldn't say to someone...
Even when my heart rate was higher than average during the day due to anxiety, I often had a night time rate of 54-58bpm. I still have this often, matter of fact my heart rate was 55 about 20 mins...
I am also coming off Clonazapam. I'm about half way through my taper right now. I was really worried about withdrawal, so I discussed a slow taper with my doctor and that's what we have been doing....
Super20dan, I'm not a huge fan of meds. I find that I often do not need doses as large as I am perscribed, and I guess I'm a control freak because I just don't put 100% trust in my doctors. I also...
Is that a normal amount of caffeine for you? I can't drink one cup without getting anxious. I do find that if I do not eat often enough I start to feel a bit lightheaded and anxious. This used to...
My anxiety started at the end of 2009. It was very severe at first. One of the first panic attacks I remember was while I was driving. The severity has varried over the years, and 2014 was a bad one...
Tapering has been mostly painless for me actually. After discussing it with my doctor we decided to do a very slow taper. I reduce my dose by 10% every two weeks. I'm currently down 30% and was ready...
I have also wondered about a connection with these things. I've noticed that a large poration of people who have anxiety have at least one type of stomach issue. I have personally noticed that my...
Thanks everyone, I really appreciate it. I've calmed down a bit now and I relaized the whole idea of it is just rediculous. I guess I was mostly upset that my sister told me, even though she was...
So yeah, been taking Clonazapam twice daily for 4 months and for the first time ever I forgot that I had taken it and accidentally took another one a couple hours later. I know it's not a huge deal....
I generally don't believe in superstitions. I mean, I do knock on wood at times and avoid umbrellas in houses but I'm not strict about it or anything. Anyway today I was chatting with my sister who...
This is why I don't watch the news. It's so much negative, sad, upsetting stuff. I sometimes hate that I am uninformed as a result, but I just can't stand it most days. I feel like there should be a...
I was given klonopin for anxiety back in August. I'm currently slowly tapering off of it with my doctors assitance. I personally felt it was amazing for my anxiety. It worked wonders and the side...
When I am feeling anxious I get fidgety. I pace around looking for something to do, I touch and look at my body (self checking, like I'm looking for something to be wrong), I check my pulse, and...
I took propanolol for about a year. My doctor also prescribed it recently to help slow my heart rate during a more anxious time. It's not really an anti anxiety drug, but it does something that makes...
The only way I know how to deal with my anxiety is distraction. It can be helpful, but it doesn't actually change anything or make anything easier. I just recently start reading a book on...
From the little I have read, it seems that SVTs are unpleasant rather than life-threatening, so I would take comfort in that. It is very likely that you will never experience it, but even if you did...
So as I have mentioned before I started tapering my clonazapam 8 days ago. I reduced my dose by 10% because I wanted to do a slow taper and my doctor had no issues with it. For the past week I've had...
I never used to but for the past 6 months or so I can tell my anxiety is always elevated a few days before, until a day or two after my period. Hate hate hate it!...
I have also heard that panic episodes themselves are not harmful to your heart. I think the harm is more from having anxiety long term, and even then I don't think it's any worse than other types of...
Today at the grocery store I was getting my kids out of my husbands truck when the driver door came at me and the very corner of it hit the back of my knee. It hurt a bit and it feels sore and a...
Like Lisa I was also scared of my benzos. I also gave in and am glad for the relief they bring....
That has happened to me too, and it lasted most of the day because I couldn't stop thinking about it. Even though I tried to be calm, and convinced myself that I was calm, my mind wasn't really off...
Palpit, how long have you been tapering? How are thing going for you overall? I can't believe that your doctor wanted you to go cold turkey! My doctor used to be an ER doc so he has had a lot of...
Thanks SC. You could definitely be right. I've been thinking about it a bit today and there were a lot of factors that could point to that. My normally low blood pressure (100/60), an overheated...
Thanks everyone. My doctor is completely aware of my taper. He actually wanted me to taper at a 25% but since I know how sensitive I am to most meds I told him I wanted to do it slower. He seemed...
My daughter woke me up after only a few hours of sleep with a nosebleed. I was tired but I got out of bed and helped her out no problem. Then after a few minutes I suddenly began to feel extremely...
I tend to have increased anxiety during the spring, summer and fall months. Mostly due to allergies I think. During the winter I feel better, so my anxiety is much less. This has been an unusually...
My doctor told me that benzos are depressants and that they can definitely have that effect. I take mine daily and for a good month or do I was just very irritable and cranky. It went away after a...
I've always had little bits of anxiety and irrational worry in my life, but it didn't usually interfere with my life. Leaving home at 18 seemed to trigger it. It was mostly fear. Living alone was...
I just started doing this about two months ago. It's been really great for me since on of my stresses is having no one to talk to. Journaling gives me the feeling of getting things off my chest and I...
I've been there. My pulse can definitely be a trigger for me. It took a lot of effort to stop thinking about it and checking it all the time. I used to check my BP constantly too. To encourage myself...
For me I found that while it worked as soon as I took it, it worked better and more evenly after about a month of having it in my system. The difference is pretty big honestly. I take it twice a day...
I'm not really a movie person but two movies I enjoy watching without getting tired of them are, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, and Moulin rouge. Kinda funny really because I rarely watch...
Work! Well, editing photo's from some recent shoots. It's been a rough day, the kids are crazy when I work during the day but sometimes I don't have much choice....
Yea my doctor is doing a slow taper but I'm taking such a tiny amount so I don't know how long he can drag it out. I only take .125 2x a day which only adds up to .25mg a day. My doctor used to be an...
I have read a few things about buspar and I'm nervous to take it. Not only that but my doc wants to start me on it while I'm tapering my benzo. One of the first things I read online was that buspar...
This article was very reassuring for me. Thought I would pass it on. http://elitedaily.com/news/world/why-you-shouldnt-buy-into-the-ebola-hype/784344/...