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Constand panic attack for 2 months

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phil05702
phil05702

Hey,

I am dealing with a consant 24/7 panic attack since 2 MONTHS! It's really exhausting and driving me insane. I'm nervous and trembling the whole time and also have a derealisation at the same time. There is nothing that can really distract me from it. I am taking Zoloft (Sertraline) since 4 days, but so far no relief.

I have no idea what caused this. I used to have panic attacks before sometimes at night, but never as extreme as now.

Anybody else who has experienced this? Will this ever get better? sad Life is really not worth living like this...

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  • lisalisa67
    lisalisa67 phil05702

    Posted

    Yes! Yes. And yes it gets better. This haooens. I dint know why its a cycle of hell but it will het better. Four days in in zoloft is nithing takes 5 weeks to even work well. Hang in there it sunsides. You have all of my compassiin this is an awful disorder, i hooe you are in therapy as well. Stop any alcohol, caffiene, msg products. By this time next minth this wont be as evil as it is now.

    im surpeised you doctor didnt give you something to take the edge off for a couole of weeks until the soloft works...they usually do. You might want to inquire about that. I would.

    again this will get better. It will, 

     

  • heather52246
    heather52246 phil05702

    Posted

    Yes am just over a really bad spell of it every day since December and then they put me on sertraline as a just couldn't seem to come down they didn't work for me but everyone is different am now just off them and having to wait out the coming off symptoms you will get better tho a know exactly how your feeling all a done was cry and inconsolable for months couldn't leave my home they gave me diazepam at my worst and it helped just calm me down as your body needs some time to come down and recover so we can get back in control.. but they pills do take a while to work...

  • phil05702
    phil05702

    Posted

    Hey you two. Thank you for responding! I already feel better now knowing, that I'm not the only one who has this.

    I'm going to a psychosomatic hospital in 2 weeks.

    It's really unbelievable what your own mind can do to you. I spent the last weeks running from one doctor to another, because I was so sure I had something physical, but all the test were negative.

    Now I got Seroquel from my doctor. It immediately made me fall asleep, even though it was still not a very relaxing one rolleyes Also it feels like it narcotized my brain, which makes everything a little more endurable.

    Did you also have this strange unbearable "head pressure" the whole time? I think it's from the stress/panic, but it's the worst symptom for me.

    And when you say it get's better, will it be like before I had this or do I have to my brain to be dazed now forever?

    Are you both "cured" from it now?

    • heather52246
      heather52246 phil05702

      Posted

      Yeah I've been the same had so many tests all clear...our brain is very powerful like you say.. I got the head pressure a lot and just not feeling myself like a wasn't really here If that makes sense...it's the constant adrenals going off and our brain just gets tired..I had to give myself a talking to after coming off these pills as they just where not helping me and making it worse but they help lots of people everyone's different.. but once I made the decision in my head that this can't go on any longer slowly but surely a don't know how I've managed to come down enough that let my body recover...you will get better and it won't be forever and the symptoms will go like a say soon as your body has some time to heal its exausting stuff being constantly anxious... I really know how your feeling and I know how debilitating it can be and upsetting and the feeling like what's the point a can't live like this if this is my life then a want it over I had all these thoughts but I promise it will get better.. your doing all the right things so far...time is definelty a healer and taking one day at a time and not thinking to far ahead only made me more Anxious to think I'd be stuck that way forever as a felt horrific... just like a say coming off sertraline as it's not working my anxiety is gone but the withdrawals coming off are still there hoping they don't last long... hope you feel better soon...

    • lisalisa67
      lisalisa67 phil05702

      Posted

      At this time there is no cure. A reset is needed not a cure.something is in over drive in all of us. The fight or flight isnt functioning correctly, i have had where it just dissapeared for years at a time. Happened a few times. I dont know now i have some weird ailments, diagnosed ones and one of them is some ear thing and it messes with my mind and anxiety. If i was all body healthy i think i would be ok. Mine co exists with ailments now. But back when i didnt have ailments i had panic attacks in cycles. I was more GAD with cycles of oanic attacks. The whole thing sucks  i would be curious if my ailments where in someone with no disorder how they would function lol. No way to know.

      but for you thise who get panic attacks yes they cycle can last a while. Impossiboe to ignore or think it away. Its really a personality and lifestyle change and so what if sometimes you need meds. Dont lean on the, meds as your life

      line  but for a year or so to get a handle on all this i think makes sense. And then get  as needed ones to balance it all. You have a lot to learn about all this. Meaning ways to cope with it, 

      im hoping science picks up the pace and figures this out. It would be a tremendous life saver for tons of people. Too bad we all dont come with some kind of reset button. 

      Mist of the book writers and soeakers have experienced anxiety disorders and write the books. Its not a cure kind of situation, its a reset. And so far not really. They all learned to accept it and cope with it. So it doesnt debilitate their life. Just ends up as sensations with no emotional attachment. They dont fear it anymore. The fear is what feeds it so badly that and what ifs.. we are future people. Always thinking and living in the furpture, what if and we dont trust the process of life. I dont know what came first though. 

      This whole mess is exhausting in the body and the mind. Thats for sure.we are nit suppose to always be having fight or flight responses and rushes. It drains the body and yes your head wont feel good but theres so many symptoms that these stress hormones cause cant even list them. Everyone gets anxiety. We just get stuck at that level for some reason.

      at some point you will surrender/accept and be at the level you do not want to or feel like feeding into it. Thats when it turns around. 

      So you know when this gets better and it really will. At times it will occur again in your future. Those arent setbacks. Because youll know how to handle it. 

       

  • ed97158
    ed97158 phil05702

    Posted

    Hi Phil, I share many of the same symptoms. I have the constant headache which is attributred to the stress put on the body to combat the anxiety. We all work so hard to overcome the physical and mental symptoms that it can cause tension/stress headaches. 

     

  • nikki683
    nikki683 phil05702

    Posted

    I can totally relate. My symptoms are a bit different. But I have been in constant state of aniexty for 6 months (since a month after I had my son). I get a break for a few hours here and there but for the most part I am either living it or waiting in fear and anticipation for it to come back again. My worst symptom is shortness of breath. It's so miserable I swear it's a sometning more but I have had some test done and all has come back fine. I think they are doing the wrong kinds of tests but maybe that's my aniexty talking..I'm not so sure tho. I have had aniexty my entire life in with good and bad years but this just feels different. I wish you luck with it all and I hope to also not live like this forever... maybe it's time I try some meds

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