Posted by Vincent_QC on December 4, 2009, at 22:09:12
In reply to Re: Panic disorder symptoms, normal or not? » Vincent_QC, posted by Phidippus on December 4, 2009, at 15:09:46
> > Someone have the same symptoms then mines from panic disorder?
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> Panic attacks can cause some of the symptoms of a heart attack, but I doubt you are having a heart attack as you would be in the hospital and not posting here.
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Yeah, you're right about that one... even if I know that it's not related to the heart, I can't remove that idea from my head... and each time i'm doing a panic attack I think I will die... And now with the panic disorder, mean constant and hig level of anxiety, I always feel like I have something wrong with my heart, even if I had it checked 2 times this year and everything is normal... I have maybe just a faster pulse rate but it's mainly caused by bad habits like smooking cigarettes and the lack of exercises...>
> Is your anxiety about specific things or is it a general anxiety? Do you have thoughts that you can't get out of your head?
>I have the two types of anxiety you describe. Strange no? I have panic attacks who are trigers by things like driving the car or being exposed to a a lot of peoples at the same time. I don't know if it's general anxiety... but my main problem is the social phobia... I had panic disorder diagnostic 14 years ago and was put on the Paxil + CBT and get ride of it after 2 years of hard work... The panic disorder appear just recently (june)... I had panic attacks at school when it was time do to oral exposure works at the university or when I was taking the metro alone or walking on a street full of peoples, but I was used to this kind of panic attacks and was not worried about them... But this time it's different...
To be more clear and specific, I have a anemia problem with a low hemoglobin, who is not helping me to start with the fatigue and the fact that I feel weak all the time... I'm treat for that with intramuscular injection of iron and pills of iron that I take each days... just had also a surgery to remove the bloddy hemmorroids that was causing the loose of the iron and blood from my body...
Anyways, panic attacks become more and more present in my life back this summer... I had one panic attack while I was driving the car and after I was stuck with the idea that I will not be able to drive again alone... it took more than 2 months to be able to drive the car and don't fear of having panic attacks again while I was driving...
Those panic attacks are triger by the fact that I now that I take a huge amount of Rivotril each day, so I don't have a lot of concentration and i'm a lot distracted, so I fear of doing a car accident... or fainting ... and when the panic attack start, I fear of doing a heart attack and do a car crash...
I have also a lot of thoughts in my head ... not linked to the driving the car, but more related to the general anxiety type... I had a gastric by-pass to loose weight in 2001... I was at 450 and go to 180 pounds... was stable on 180 pounds... until my Doctor put me back on antidepressants meds... I gain weight again and i'm now around 220 pounds... and I feel not really well with myself... I feel fat again and that's making me a lot anxious when i'm going out of the house...
I also have a lot of others thougts... about my health... I smooke a lot but can'T stop since i'm so anxious... I have weight to loose but can't dieteting cause the anxiety make me eat a lot... I know that i'm not in a good physically shape but can't exercises since the low level of hemoglobin is making me tired all the times... I will see a Plastic Surgeon soon to have some extra skin remove from my body... so another painfull surgery... I need another one surgey to repair a hernia in my belly... I'm now 33yo and I don't finish school, I don't work since more than 6 years now, i'm disable from work... have no money... I really don't feel like a normal person of 33yo... I have to live temporary to my parents house... i'm gay... gay peoples are a lot superficials and the way you look and the body is more important than what you have inside your head... so I don't meet guys to avoid to being rejected like in the past... I dint had a BF since more than 3 years and for the sex it's the same... I just feel that I completly f*ck up my entire life...
So you see, my thoughts are a lot linked to my health... and I can't stop thinking about all those things... so the anxiety level is always high...
> If your anxiety is mood related, then you may be experiencing mania and you might do well to go on a mood stabilizer like Lithium or Lamictal.
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CAn you call what I wrote above mood related??? Mania??? I know that I have a body dismorphic problem... as well as a bulemia problem... I tend to always want to loose weight and get frustrated cause I can't...>
> Did you give these medications time to work? It takes about four weeks for these medications to build up in your system. Why not go back on Paxil?
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I always allow at least 2 months for a med... If i'm experiencing side-effects who are dangerous, like hypertensives crisis (not linked to food) on the Parnate in december and january 2009, that's sure that I will stop before the 2 months... But in general, I always allow a good 2 months to meds to be sure they are not effective...or effective...And the reason why I don't want to return on the Paxil is because I suffer a lot from my morbid obesity in the past... I had that gastric by-pass to loose weight... it's a painfull surgery... and trust me, nobody who will have lived the same experiences, will do the same as me... I mean not wanted to gain weight!!! I was 2 1/2 months on the Paxil last summer and I gain 30 pounds!!!! For me it's too much !!! That's certainly not normal, even my PDoc was surprise when he see on the scale the weight I was after 2 1/2 months... I don't want to be fat again, so that's why i'm looking for another solution!!!
I hope it's more clear now!!!
Thanks for your answer ;-)
Vincent ;-)
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