Brittany
02-28-2011, 10:58 PM
This is my first post and first time in a forum. Just looking for people like me in hopes of feeling a little better. Have had anxiety for 3 years now. Started with me thinking I was choking once and from then on out had trouble swallowing for fear of choking. (Had never even choked in the first place) It got so bad one morning that I ended up in the ER which is where I got diagnosed with anxiety. Ended up back there the very next day with the same problem this time shaking and thinking I was dying. My very first panic attack. After diagnosis, I started to feel better knowing what it was. Up until about 2 years later, it all came back in full swing. Ended up in ER a THIRD time. This time got a shot of Ativan and a prescription for Xanax. Took the Xanax as needed for the next month until it got so bad I said "I have to try something long-term." Which is when I started on Lexapro. Went off for 3 months. Just started again beginning of this month when I went to the ER a fourth time because I had no Xanax left. I'm about 3 and a half weeks into the Lexapro again and still having problems. It's getting a little better day by day but still needing Xanax for panic attacks at night sometimes. I think it would be great to hear everyone's stories and get to know everything about this awful, awful disorder.