New here.. Good to know

[dmack0059]

Good to know there's other people out there who share the same problem as me... I never knew how hard this was.. My mother dealt with anxiety 5 years ago.. Being a 16 year old at the time (now i'm 21 and in college) I thought it was easily controlled. I've had heart palpatations, shortness of breath (the hardest thing for me to deal with), fear of dying (taking over my life it seems), I'm scared to sleep b/c I feel I will actually pass away in my sleep, Dizziness and drowsiness, muscle weakness (i've been lifting weights since 9th grade and play sports still, this is especially hard for me putting fears in my head of other diseases)... I'ts been a week.. What really triggered all of this for me was a sudden heart palpatation.. I got a cardigram done, 24 hr monitor, chest X-ray, and a stress/T-wave Test, Blood work.. All came back good.. Then this past friday I took a Levaquin (a fluoroquinolone anti-biotic for infection- don't ever take it.. there's always an option, deny this drug, i've learned there's a class action against it in the making, wish i saw that before) and it sent me into a spiral of anxiety magnifying that feeling i had before by 100.. Haven't shaken the feeling since.. I've read in a book somewhere that this anxiety is a sort of spiritual cleansing.. I'm not much of a religious person.. I hope to find myself by the end of this experience though.... If you look at it like that.. we're kind of the "chosen" ones.. Good luck to you all..



Just for kicks.. The thing I really miss the most is being able to sleep worry free..Man how I loved to sleep .. It's funny how we take everyday things for granted until they are taken from us.. Maybe this is a way to make us all appreciate the small things... God Bless

[Robbed]

It's kind of interesting what sort of small thingscan trigger anxiety. For myself, it came on suddenly when I just could not sleep one night. I mean, I have had those rare nights where I lay awake for 2-3 hours before falling asleep. But NEVER a night where I just CAN'T fall asleep, PERIOD! This, of course, got me REALLY afraid, and sent me into my downward spiral. Of course, you have to remember that such things as my inability to sleep that night and your palpitation were probably caused by other stresses in life, as both are stress symptoms. When I look back at it, I didn't feel quite right for a couple of months before the anxiety started (although still basically OKAY), and it kind of seemed like ALOT of issues were coming to a head.

As for the 'spiritual cleansing', perhaps this is a possibility. Going through something as horrible as an anxiety disorder certainly gives one motivation to change things that probably SHOULD be changed, yet WOULDN'T be changed if anxiety never struck. Does this make us chosen? Well, maybe when we recover.