Obelysk
09-08-2008, 02:31 PM
Ok, so it seems that I have anxiety or at least that is what my doctor told me. So let me tell you my story, it all happened about 2 months ago, I bought a tea and drank it, I got to my work and I started to feel cold. I started to turn pale and so did my hands and my heart started to go a little faster. My coworker looked and me and ask me what was wrong, I told her it was really nothing, I started to feel like I wanted to throw up but it was not because of the food I had eaten I couldn't explain it. After 20 minutes I got worse and I made myself throw up which relieved me for a little while but I got worse so I went to hospital. When I was there it sort of went away and they did some test and found nothing. I went back to normal until a week latter when I started to "suffocate" (a Saturday night) and couldn't breath even though I knew I was breathing so I went to the ER again to have me checked out. I suspected it was problems with my thyroid gland so I told them to take some blood samples and they came clean. Thursday night I had another similar one but I sort of pulled through it until it went away. At that point I had no clue what it was, than 2 weeks later (Saturday night) I got another one and I wen to the ER again and that was when they told me i had panic/anxiety attacks. OK so I really didn't pay too much mind to it except that I needed fix my sleeping habits because I have always gotten problems sleeping and that might help. Unfortunately during that week I feel weird my brain started to feel numb, sometimes I felt dazed and like my head was being compressed and that my blood was going at 100mph. But nothing else until Saturday night this week when I started to read something online about a person who had anxiety and my heart started to pound again. This time was very different though, it didn't go away. My previous attacks lasted about 1-3 hours and I would feel normal but this one didn't I spent the whole night trying to make myself relax, I walked on the treadmill for 20 minutes, I drank a tea and nothing, after a while I felt like throwing up and I did twice. Which relaxed me but the feeling came back. I finally managed to make myself fall a sleep after 1 hour and when I woke up in the morning I was perfectly fine, for 5 minutes. It came back I tried waling it off and couldn't so my mother called one of her friends to pick me up and take me to the ER so I went. As expected they told me they couldn't give me anything and I needed to talk to a psychologist, so I left I had not eaten anything and I did want to eat anything even though I was starving. So I forced myself to eat a steak that I nearly threw up after I eat it. And went to a friend's house even though my heart kept pounding all day long. I would not stop, it was draining me, I felt tired and annoyed and I got cold to the point that I started to hyperventilate and my friend called an ambulance. In short they told me to breath out of a bag which calmed me down and I went home at around 9. When I tried to go to sleep it came back and I could not fall asleep. Now today I been feeling slight panic attacks and its driving me crazy. I feel like they are not going to stop and I am going live like this the rest of my life. Please give me some guidance .......