askdonna
03-04-2008, 07:16 PM
Well I am back after a few years ...... I want to reintroduce myself. I am a 26 year old mother to 3. I have suffered from Anxiety/Panic for a few years now. I got pregnant and found out I was having twins almost 2 years ago, I really worried about going through such a high risk pregnancy but we made it through. After the babies were born I was feeling GREAT. My husband left a month after they were born to serve in Iraq and I wondered if the disorder would come back but it's been going great........ well so I thought. It's been 8 months and I ended up having this horrible panic attack today. I was in a movie rental place when all of a sudden I bit in to a jumbo piece of bubble gum and my tooth shot with pain, then my right ear clogged up (like I couldn't hear out of it), I started shaking and panicking then I got extremely dizzy, like so bad it was hard to walk straight, I sat down and concentrated on my breathing.... my friend that was with me got me a wet paper towel to put on my face, I thought I was going to fall out of the chair and pass out but I over came it and the clogged feeling went to a slight noise and then gone. I went to the ER but it was so packed I just decided to go home. I was ok for awhile, I got on the phone with a friend who suffers from anxiety and told her what had happened when it started again.... my right ear got that clogged feeling, I didn't get dizzy but I felt a little off balanced. Again it lasted a few minutes and went away with a slight noise. I started looking up symptoms and of course now I am concentrating on the worst case scenario. Please someone tell me this is just anxiety from being stressed out. These past two weeks have been hectic. I really thought it was going away.... I have suffered this since 2001, when I first started having the attacks .... they were back to back all day everyday, I thought I was dying.... I seriously thought I would never live to see the next year.... I just knew something was wrong. I was making endless trips to the ER... ekg's, blood work, x- rays.... you name it. I finally admitted myself in to a behavorial hospital for a few weeks to help me cope, they had a really good program and it helped me for a little while. I chose to get taken off the meds and I started having the attacks again, this time I was getting palpitations, started getting this weird vibration through my body, headaches, sleepy, dizzy, lightheaded.... it wasn't so much the chest pain anymore but new symptoms. I was afraid to leave home, going to the grocery store was a challenge (if I could just count how many times I left a full buggy). Will this ever end? Sorry for the vent.... this forum has helped me in the past and I am hoping someone can help me again. Thanks in advance!