Hello

[angie]

I'm new to this page not sure if I'm doing this right....just glad to see I'm not alone!

[Buttercup]

Hi Angie,
Welcome :)

[angie]

Thank u!! Would love any positive feedback!!! Feeling very down.....

[fisher]

Hiya angie whats the matter?i suffer from anxiety dont know if i can help but am here anyway if you need me x

[angie]

I had suffered from panic attacks some years ago and I was able to overcome that....but for the past 4 months have had this horrible feeling of death with a lot of anxiety....I'm constantly flushed in the face, shake a lot, cold hands and feet....crying spells everyday....u think I need to increase my dose of Zoloft 50mg??

[Buttercup]

I think you should have a chat with your doctor before you increase the dosage. Also did anything happen that may have caused this fear?

[angie]

That's what I don't understand....I don't know why....seems like it just came on out of nowhere.

[jlong329]

Here is my story:

In Nov 2011, after coming back on my lunch break, I started feeling a little dizzy so I started looking up the symptoms on webmd and to no avail, heart attack symptoms came up. At that time I felt like I ha to get out of there so I got up and started walking to the restroom, on the way to the restroom I started experiencing those same symptoms that I saw online. Crushing
chest pain, my whole left side was tingling, fast heart beat, hot flashes and just some other crazy symptoms. I called 911 the paramedics came and took me to the hospital.

I was in the hospital for 5 days, they ran every test under the sun. They did a cardiac cath, echocardiogram, EKG, X-ray, MRI of the brain, countless of blood test, and all of the test came back negative. That was Nov 2011, since that day, I have not been the same. I've been to numerous of cardiologists, neurologists, endocrinologists, I've been to the ER at least 7 times, have done additional testing for thyroid, parathyroid, pheochromocytoma, ultrasound of the carotid arteries, Lung VQ scan to check for blood clots, an again everything comes back negative.

All the doctors are telling me the same thing, that I experienced a panic attack and now suffer from
Anxiety from the feat that the panic attack will happen again. What I don't understand is the symptoms that I am feeling. From the moment I wake up till the moment I go to sleep, I feel tingling in my face, my right side of my face twitches alot, I feel flushed all the time and feel like I am sweating on my forehead, I experience chest pain and all sorts of crazy symptoms, but the constant tingling and constant ligheadedness is what gets me. I am always feeling like I'm going to pass out and die.

Sorry for this long entry, I just want to know if anyone has experienced this and if this is all attributed to anxiety. Can the doctors have missed something and I actually have something more serious? And if it is anxiety, how long does it take to get back to my pre Nov 2011 life?

I am 30 years of age. Thank you for taking the time to read this

[jlong329]

I feel the same symptoms you feel all the time. Flushed face, light headed, tingling feeling in the face and many more