Bad feeling,Hot and Cold sweats...normal?

Also have been having a very fast heart beat and been put on Amitriptylene and proparanol (hope ive spelt them right)

Hi Stacey

the dry mouth is mostly from your medicine.  Common side effect.  The rest of the symptoms I believe are from your anxiety you are experiencing.  I am sure you will get more responses tmrw.  

Hi Stacey, it really does sound like the anxiety that i had for many years, when i things i saw and did use to trigger unresolved fears and history, and i didnt understand why. Its almost like when i moved away from home, these old feelings that were triggered by everything from disney movies to everyday experiences, and csused me to think about them, sometimes incessently, as i personalized them, from past experiences that wete not resolved involving parenting i had with a mother from early childhood years, that surfaced in this strange, obcessive, worrysome and anxious way..as weird as this sounds..i would then be anxious when i went to sleep, and would have disturbed sleep and would have very strange dreams that were upsetting, that i would think about and try to understand them. It just so happened my husband was an intellectual type that seemed to trigger me to think way to much in addition to this, which made it worse fir me. I dont know if i was adjusting to the differences from living away from home, as if i was disloyal or something strange like that, even though i didnt want to ever go back in time and relive my childhood. I handled this on my own without medications, and instead began taking magnesium (magnesium glycinate) for a restless sleep, cognition, and obsessive moods, but took this with calcium (2x a day in a 1:1 ratio) with D3 (2000 mg), with mega dose of b complex (stress vitamins) learning that these together were all needed together for the right absorption, which helped so much, along with cognitive therapy, to learn what was triggering this heightened anxiety, which was from my subconscious, i had been told. hormonal and mood changes from daily caffeine, malabsorption of vitamins, birth control medication, and deficient in magnesium (glycinate) which effected my anxiety and hormone levels in so many ways. The counseling therapy helped very much also, and i no longer have the anxious and worrysome thoughts that consumed me in younger years, which so often evolved around pleasing others and being so self efacing, so that other adults around me were contented at all times. I learned this was engrained in my childhood, to which i did not question, and was causing me tremendous anxiety and unsettledness. I enlisted healthy mentoring and intermittent cognitive therapy, along with the other health changes above, and this helped me very much.

Thank you all for your quick replys,nice to see im not the only one u at 4am lol im gad that your anxiety has gone away cheria and that youve found ways or dealing wth it,gives me hope that it wont be around forever!

 Its nice to see(im not glad you have it just feel better is not just me) that you to have the thoughts about being in/out the house chick30548 though i was just being strange,i got to the point i couldnt go in my bedroom for a few days as it gave me a bad feeling. My mum also suffers and has bi polar,she made me go to the drs as my mood and general self had changed for the last few months and she was worried. I dont think i could ever make it without her.

...i feel better reading your storys and am going to try your ways or helping ease the anxiety...

Hi Stacy,

All these things seem to be pretty common with anxiety, I have or have had most of them in the past.

The thing I want to focus on is the hot/cold sweats. I'm now on citalopram and its eased a lot of my anxiety symtoms but I still wake up every night in the small hours or if I'm lucky the morning, dripping with sweat (bit disgusting!) If I remove the covers I feel cold so I dont feel like I'm too hot necessarily. Is this what you are referring to when you say hot and cold sweats or something else? Is it usually at night? It's really getting me down.

I also get dry mouth - it was temporarily made worse when I started on the medication but I had it pretty bad before so I think it can be an anxiety symptom as well as a medication side effect.

Good luck x

Stacey, a lot of these symptoms sound familiar. My GP has given me medication which is working well. I take Mirtazapine and Pregabalin, but I think I am a lot older than you. Just to say, you are not alone. Many of us have been through this stage and come out the other end. Good luck.

Hi, Stacey. I think your symptoms are similar to those described on the leaflet for Pregabalin. Probably applies to other medications as well. In other words, you are suffering from anxiety. I can understand that even Disney films worry you - I've been there. I'm much better now, thanks to my doc. I'm going to try the Mindfulness which doctors and therapists have recommended. My niece is a GP: she suffered with anxiety a year ago and took medication and did the Mindfulness thing so I know it's valuable. And it doesn't put weight on !!

Good luck.

Hello

I have what you have discussed above its like your waiting for something bad to happen am going through the same thing but mine has lack of energy and no interest in doing day to day things and am also having hot and cold sweats and when get hungry I make something then I don't want it i am also feeling rough and it feels like my heart is going to burst out of my chest also get sweaty hands and chills not sleeping very well and feels like my legs are shaking when walking when get up in the morning I get very tired very quickly I don't know what's going on but it's scary so have booked appointment with my doctor tomorrow hopefully get some answers hope this helps