New to site

[MrsHowe22]

Hi my name is Pam. I'm 41, married, have two cats, have a decent job and....I'm anxious all the time. I worry about everything. I'll be fine one minute and the next I'm having a full blown panic attack. I feel like I am going crazy. I've always been on the anxious side, but never this bad. Please tell me I'm not the only out there like this.....help!

[mw0929]

Hi Pam! Welcome to the forum! You are most definitely not alone. I was always a worrier but never as bad as it has been the last few months. Panic attacks and daily symptoms suck!!

[MrsHowe22]

thanks mw0929-I hate feeling alone with this. What is it like for you?

[mw0929]

thanks mw0929-I hate feeling alone with this. What is it like for you?

I too feel alone most of the time. That's why I joined this forum so I could find people to relate to. It's hard for people that don't have anxiety to understand. I used to think anxiety wasn't a big deal until I experienced it for myself. I am always concerned about my health even though I know my physical symptoms (heart palps, aches, acid reflux, breathing issues, etc) are just anxiety. Do you practice any relaxation techniques like meditation, exercise, journal writing?

[freakingoutnow]

Welcome Pam! I am like you fine one minute and full blown panic the next and this goes on all day and everyday!!! I have my main symptom of deep breathing and trying to take a deep breath all day, shaky nerves, heart racing, sweaty palms, feeling faint, dizzy, chest pains, gas, nausea, and diarrhea. Just total fear and panic all day! I also worry all day, I try daily to beat this problem. I don't know maybe it's or age??? I just turned 40 this year and that's when this came back. Maybe peri-menopause???

[MrsHowe22]

I don't know if it's age either. I mean I've always tended to be more on the anxious side. Plus I have a problem called benign paraxysmal positional vertigo that causes me to get uncontrollable vertigo. My mother had dizziness for years and when she finally decided to get it checked out, she found out she had a brain tumor and was dead in 2 years. Now I know the odds of me having a brain tumor are remote, but I still think...what if....and then they side effects from my medication...at least I am hoping it's my medication..I have these tremors that I noticed last week. I just want to feel normal again!! I started going to a counselor and I love him, he puts things in perspective and I feel good when I leave. I've been doing some breathing techniques and writing in a journal...I just want to be the fun loving person I once was. I hate being fine one second and then in a bad anxiety attack minutes later. I never took people with anxiety seriously before either...I was like suck it up...but now I know what it's like. I think partly my tremors are too anxiety related but I think the wellbuterin is partly responsible too. I feel so helpless and I know it's taking a toll on my husband, who has been great thru all this.

[new1234]

Welcome to the forum.

[sandyrdh1]

I am 47 and started having this anxiety about 2 yrs ago. It has gotten worse this last year. I have always been an anxious person but this is way over that. I did find out this year because I made my doctor give me a pre menopause test because I had never been this nervous in my life. Tremors, hot flashes, felt like I need to climb the walls everyday all day, weak, feeling faint, on and on. I asked them years ago todo this and they said I was to young. What ever! The test came back positive for pre menopause! I have constant skipping heart beats that drive me nuts. I am always fearing the worst. I am on a hormone patch now only because it is the only thing that helped reduce my anxiety some so I can at least get through it better. i can not take any of the meds for anxiety, depression because they make me worse. I have tried about all of them. I am also now on a beta blocker for my skipping heart beats. They say my heart is fine. I also take xannax when needed, which is everyday to help me cope with the skipping heart beats. It's a vicious cycle! I am at my wits end. It's hard to even go to work anymore because I am always scared to go anywhere in fear of a panic attack.

[MainerMikeBrown]

I also had been a fairly nervous person only to become very anxious after being put on psychiatric meds for depression years ago.