Posted by BarbaraCat on January 28, 2002, at 12:52:34
In reply to ANXIETY IS KILLING ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!, posted by crazychickuk on January 22, 2002, at 10:36:45
Dear Chick,
I'm so sorry to hear about your panic attacks. I've had them as well and they are horrible. I can stand the dark low places of depression, I can stand anything, but panic attacks bring me to my knees. I don't know if you're still taking Effexor, but this is probably not the best drug for you. In fact, SSRI antidepressants may be doing more harm than good, and are probably contributing to your panic, no matter what the literature or your doctor says. You may need an antianxiety, and perhaps that's all you really need. I've been on Klonopin and it's worked wonders. I've also been on every kind of SSRI out there and they did nothing but make me feel worse. In my opinion, much depression is caused by anxiety and that has to be treated, both with drugs and lifestyle changes. Please hang in there, you will get better, but please do some research out on the web about the bad effects of Effexor and other SSRI's on anxiety - take it from one who's been there and knows what you're going through. -- Barbara> hi there, please help me.. i cant take this no more... anxiety is ruining my life.. i think i am better off dead than to keep suffering with this,this is also making my daughter surffer too, i am a single mam of a 2 yr old and i cant go any where without worrying.. that i am going to die.. or that i got no where to escape too, i am soo alone!!
> It all started when i was being treated for depression in yr 2000 i was on effexor i was fine for a while untill one night i was at a nightclub and well that was when i experienced my first attack i was dancing away and suddenly a strong FEAR of DOOM came i thought i was dieing my head felt like it was going to explode, i went straight home wouldnt let the babysitter leave me, i was like this for days until i finally plucked up courage to go to the doctors and he said what was the matter with me he prescribed me some drug but i never took them, i was to scared too, never took anything ever again... never went out clubbing again... i still went on the odd ocasional vist to my nans and my mums... any way over christmas i was starting to worry what if something happens to me i went to the doctors and he prescribed me betta blockas, i read up on them and they interfere with your haert i was to scared to take them.. i was fine over christmas untill boxing night, just come on sudden about 9 pm i was on the computer playing games as i usually do to take my mind of things and then i started to feel a fear of doom, i was dieing, my head is going to explode, i was trembling, i took an asprin, head was hurting bad, i was shaking, feezing, my head felt like it was going to collapse, i phoned my mum at 4 am she came over, thought i was dieing too, she sat there with me, making conversation i just didnt want to talk, everything she was saying just made me worse, the fear was there still, and wouldnt go.... just like labour when the pain is there and you can not get rid of it, but at this stage it wernt pain it was just my head felt like it was going to explode, my mum phoned the doc and she said that i need to stop thinking clear my head, but i didnt know what i was thinking nothing seemed clear, i was so frightened couldnt be bothered to move or anything... any way i finally calmed down by 7 am, my mum went home i felt bad for getting my mum here because she has enough to worry about, i phoned the doc as soon as i woke up and she prescribed me valuim when i felt that i was going to have an attck, (well you do with anxiety) i would take a valuim it works calms me right down... any way last night i took a valuim (only 2mg) and it didnt work i was so frightened again the same symptoms but not the bad headache just that my head was going to explode this was again at night.. i couldnt settle i was hot.. opened a window then i was cold.. wow that was bad.. phoned doc she calmed me down.. i woke this morning with it and all day i havent been able to relax.. its ok for ppl to say to you that you need to relax and breath i tried all that i tried everything.. but when its a full blown attack nothing will work.. all the doc has done now is refered me to a nurse ( i am so disorented that i cant remember the name) 1 on 1 therapy, as i am to afraid to go to group meetings at this stage.. doc wont give me no drugs says i need to fight it,, its sooooooo hard i really need help what can i do??? this is taking over my life.. feels like i am going to die.. what with this my life and my daughters life is suffering...this aint just the odd rush of anxiety, its full blown and nothing will help me... not even valuim!!
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> can i just ask you to confirm these symptoms.... headach (sometimes) feel like your head is going to explode, feel sick, trembling, fear you are going to die, fear there is something wrong with you, (for me its to do with my head) i suppose that if i were to have a brain tumour or a bloodclot in my brain i would soon know about it wont i?? thats what the doc says to me,, but still i dont understand about life.. whats this and that etc.. o plse help me.. email me... anything plse...
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> thank you
> crazychickuk@aol.com
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