I don't just feel like I'm going to faint...I do faint sometimes whenever I have an anxiety attack. I hate this because it confirms my fears so I am stuck in this endless cycle of fearing fainting, fainting, and so on and so forth. bleh. I also overheat and sweat buckets. And my chest feels like it's going to explode. My thinking gets all disoriented.
I have had every symptom pretty much on this list..........Im so glad i am not the only one!
I had every single one in the mood section. I had about half of all the others too. Crazy. Never seen my symptoms laid out in front of me....
Hi all,
New here, just found this site a few days ago and joined. Thought I posted this once but it never went through. My first bout with this condition started about 4 years ago and I had no idea what was happening. I ended up in the ER only to be told by the emergency phy. that she thought I was having an anxiety attack. I thought she was crazy as I wasn't anxious or nervous about anything at the time. I then proceeded with several visits to my local family doctor which did every test know to man. blood, urine, thyroid, sugar, I even went to a cardiologist and had a stress test performed. Each time they came back with your fine, perfectly normal. That was good news but it didn't explain the symptoms I was having or the issues at the time. I got down so bad at one point that I was willing to try anything to get rid of this feeling I was having in my head. So the doc talked me in to trying wellbutrin which I started on and I also tried paxil which i had a very bad experience with. I want to say I hate taking pills as I don't want to be reliant on anything, heck I hate taking cold medicine and only will it I have to,.. It's 4 years later and I'm still taking the wellbutrin. After the first few months I started to feel better but didn't know if it was the medicine or just my mind getting better. Don't get me wrong here, I still had spells from time to time but nothing like the first ones were and they usually subsided within 1 to 2 days. I think my original problem in my mind that I had brought the anxiety on and not just a panic or anxiety attack. I know this post has been going for a long time but I wanted to list some of my symptoms and the order they take place. I also wanted to ask if anyone else have certian symptoms here that don't seem to be as common as symptoms others have. so here they are.... notice that the anxiety don't really start until the third phase.
Usually the first symptoms come on like this....
tunnel effect / find myself wanting to stare into space
dizzy light headed feeling / almost like your drugged
Brain Fog... (this is the one I have the hardest time explaining to my doc, family and friends) It's a very weird feeling
Trouble concentrating: If I put up a fight with these I can prevent some of the following symptoms from rearing their heads
fatigued
If the above are pesistant or escalate then comes these...
frequent urination : I can always tell anxiety is coming with this one
drymouth: same as above
belching excessively: even when I haven't eaten anything
loss of appetite
easily startled by noises (loud or normal)
agitated easily
loud noises seem to agrivate the symptom
If the above become severe enough then come these symptoms AKA minor anxiety Note: if I try real hard to concentrate on something else, work, speaking to people, reading ect.
I can stop some of the following symptoms from progressing but It don't work all the time.
Feels like your losing your mind / going crazy
fear of dying or having an undiagnosed illness
brain actually hurts sometimes (Note) not the same feeling as a headache
hot flashes over mainly face but can be entire body
extra sensativity to heat
ability to have increased ability of smell, taste and hearing
fear of needing to getting away from people and places before the full blown attack happens.
And then the biggy.... The FULL BLOWN ANXIETY ATTACK
If this takes place then I usually spend a few days layed up recovering from the attack
Racing / or irregular heart beat
tingleing in hands, feet, arms and head
irregular breathing
feels like I might passout or faint
Extremely fatigued / tired afterward
nauseated
My main question is... How many of your have simalar symptoms to mine in the first and second catagory before you actually experience anxiety? The biggest mystery to me is the brain fog / dizzy and lightheadedness. How many of you feel this? I become used to the problem so I don't go into a full blown anxiety attack very often.
Ive felt almost every one of these when they first started it was mainly numbness at the top of my cheek sometimes down my arm, dry mouth and dizziness. Also yawning over and over again to get more air.Now its shortness of breathe dizziness and feeling faint I get that major fight or flight reaction and so even if i feel faint from it I still have the strengh to run out of wherever the heck I am. What I hate the most though is the feeling of a shock over my entire body of fear. Its like a burst of electricity and fear through my whole body mainly in public situations. Its like the feeling when someone jumps out and scares you.
I get the dizziness, feel weird in head and head aches
Blindness. I've actually gone blind twice during panic attacks. Has that ever happened to anyone else? Very scary.
Orangeribbons yes my vision has gone completly cloudy like black tv static dureing really bad panic attacks. These are ones where I feel most in danger with my worst triggers.
Great list I didn't know that some of these would be symptoms of anxiety.
Do any of you have weird eye disturbances happening? I have gone to the eye doc and she has told me that I have detached "floaters" in my line of vison, which freaks me out because I can see them when moving my eyes back and forth. Also, occasionally, I will see little blue flashes of light in my peripheral and it's very sudden and goes away immediately. Anyone else?
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