TheDunmer
12-16-2011, 08:09 AM
Hello. I was inexpressibly happy to find this site so I could get responses from others and make sure what I'm going through IS actually anxiety and not something else. It started the night before last at about 2:00 A.M.. I was feeling fine all day up until I tried to go to sleep. I noticed that it was abnormally difficult to control my breathing, and I began to experience shortness of breath. I got up, and I was very light-headed and slightly dizzy and in sort of a panic. I was freaking out so bad because I have never felt this way before that I actually checked into the hospital to make sure everything was okay. they wrote it off as anxiety and sent me on my way. I was also experiencing, and still somewhat am, gas buildup in my chest and stomach, which I believe may have ignited the anxiety. Still as of now, I cannot get to sleep due to the unsettling feeling I get when breathing, and if I do get to sleep, its very brief. I feel decent when I'm sitting up or walking around, though I'm fairly light headed and I sort of see tracers with the movement of my hands. Is this just some major anxiety effects?