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Panic Attacks

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karen39746
karen39746

Has anyone with MD experienced severe anxiety/panic attacks?  Around the time I started having debilitating vertigo spells and was diagnosed with MD I also began to experience anxiety.  Where as the vertigo has subsided considerably (through diet) the anxiety has progressed to panic attacks and has become very debilitating to the point that most days I can't get out to drive.  My ent says no corelation but I feel there is.  I also have severe migraines.  

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  • Aj1970
    Aj1970 karen39746

    Posted

    Oh it's definitely related I haven't been able to get rid of my anxiety and panic attacks even on Valium which helps the md aka vertigo. I was house bound at one point for 3 months. My Ent said it was related due to the constant worry about the md.
  • pat99554
    pat99554 karen39746

    Posted

    I am afraid to said this is a yes for me but  the vertigo and breathing exercises have helped me enormously together with walking and swimming
  • terry48784
    terry48784 karen39746

    Posted

    I have MD and had vertigo episodes in Mar/Apr 2015. None since then and on Betahistine, low sodium diet, no cafeine, no alcohol. Only issue I had with anxiety or panic attacks was confined spaces. During this time I really did not like being in confined spaces or in locked rooms. If I had an attack I needed to know someone could get to me. Still don't like confined spaces and wont lock toilet/bathroom door unless I have to. My wifes friend has vertigo episodes and she has recently been diagnosed with vestibular migraines. In her case she does not get the headaches but gets vertigo and dizziness. Found this description on internet 'Vestibular migraine or migrainous vertigo is a type of migraine that may or may not cause a headache, but can include a number of debilitating symptoms affecting the ears, vision and balance. It is the second most common cause of vertigo'. 
  • dmy
    dmy karen39746

    Posted

    It is also a yes from me though compounded by the stress from gentamicin ablation of my cochlea.

    I don't wantto take meds for anxiety but find meditation helps but cannot shake anxiety symptoms off particularly between 4 and 6am

    • pat99554
      pat99554 dmy

      Posted

      Hi I was suffering like you and the times you mention  was particularly awful.  I decided on haveing a swim most days late from 9pm to 10pm.  Was so exhausted that I began to sleep throughout. This was until recently. I stopped the daily late night swimming but go three times a week in the day but have started to wake up again.  
  • elaine01312
    elaine01312 karen39746

    Posted

    Hi, there is definitely a link, I ended up on anti depressants as I was so scared of the frequency of my attacks, this has helped me cope,although I still dread them.
  • jennifer343434
    jennifer343434 karen39746

    Posted

    yes, I have when my vertigo went uncontained and I'm in high places.  Even watching sodium intake it still hits me.  I'm on an anti-depressant which helps with the anxiety.  Though it may be coming out thru vertigo in me. 
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