worriedmummy85
12-10-2014, 03:44 AM
Hi everyone
Just thought I would share my experience reading this might help some people.
I remember my first panic attack like it was yesterday...... I had been suffering with headaches for months, I was getting no joy with my gp, just being told to take paracetamol all the time. I gave up pretty quickly and just got on with it until one week they were constant for a full week with no relief I started getting put on different tablets aspirin, migraleve, pitozofen, and lastly amitriptyline.
I couldn't take the dulling effects of my last tablet so I came off them but I was never told to wean myself off them, this was the worst mistake of my life. One night I was lying in bed and these migraines come back with a vengeance the left side of my face went numb I was having palpitations, I started thinking there was something seriously wrong.
I rang for medical advice they sent and ambulance for me, then came the hyperventilation and the erratic behaviour (if they were sending an ambulance there must be something seriously wrong right??)...... I was wrong I was just having a panic attack my first ever one, but I was very much in denial and still believed I was dying and they were missing something!!!
I went back and forth the the GP every other day, with pain in my chest, pain under my ribs, tight chested, dizziness.
You name it I had it all. I refused tablets because I truly believed this wasn't anxiety.
I eventually had a major melt down at work and realised I needed help, back to the gp I went and took the help CBT and sertraline/zoloft.
I was terrified to take these tablets as my doctor told me they could make the anxiety worse (who would want to feel worse when you already feel bad)?
I took the plunge after a week of looking at these tablets and wanting to cry, once I did I was very much aware I had took them and my anxiety was so high and the next day was worse I sent myself into a blind panic.
The good thing about this story is that was the last panic attack I had its now been a whole year since my last panic attack, I have been unwell with flu and infections and never once have I panicked about it.
I was in that point where I thought I was never going to get better, I thought I was never going to feel normal again but I honestly do feel normal.
Looking back I realised how much o depended on this forum and how much people helped me, so I am here of you have any questions or just want to chat.
If the help is there take it.
Gem xx
Just thought I would share my experience reading this might help some people.
I remember my first panic attack like it was yesterday...... I had been suffering with headaches for months, I was getting no joy with my gp, just being told to take paracetamol all the time. I gave up pretty quickly and just got on with it until one week they were constant for a full week with no relief I started getting put on different tablets aspirin, migraleve, pitozofen, and lastly amitriptyline.
I couldn't take the dulling effects of my last tablet so I came off them but I was never told to wean myself off them, this was the worst mistake of my life. One night I was lying in bed and these migraines come back with a vengeance the left side of my face went numb I was having palpitations, I started thinking there was something seriously wrong.
I rang for medical advice they sent and ambulance for me, then came the hyperventilation and the erratic behaviour (if they were sending an ambulance there must be something seriously wrong right??)...... I was wrong I was just having a panic attack my first ever one, but I was very much in denial and still believed I was dying and they were missing something!!!
I went back and forth the the GP every other day, with pain in my chest, pain under my ribs, tight chested, dizziness.
You name it I had it all. I refused tablets because I truly believed this wasn't anxiety.
I eventually had a major melt down at work and realised I needed help, back to the gp I went and took the help CBT and sertraline/zoloft.
I was terrified to take these tablets as my doctor told me they could make the anxiety worse (who would want to feel worse when you already feel bad)?
I took the plunge after a week of looking at these tablets and wanting to cry, once I did I was very much aware I had took them and my anxiety was so high and the next day was worse I sent myself into a blind panic.
The good thing about this story is that was the last panic attack I had its now been a whole year since my last panic attack, I have been unwell with flu and infections and never once have I panicked about it.
I was in that point where I thought I was never going to get better, I thought I was never going to feel normal again but I honestly do feel normal.
Looking back I realised how much o depended on this forum and how much people helped me, so I am here of you have any questions or just want to chat.
If the help is there take it.
Gem xx