Posted by tiredofpanic on August 26, 2006, at 3:15:38
In reply to Clarocet - panic attacks vs. depression, posted by LIFE on August 26, 2006, at 1:04:16
Hi Life,
I actually got to bed around midnight last night for a change after staying up nearly 36 hours to try to reset my clock, I was tired and I slept, for about five hours that is. I think the docs really messed me up with all their trial and errros, now I need to nap in the afternoon sometimes twice. It's getting to be a royal pain in the you know what.
A panic attack:
rapid heart beat, feelings of impending doom, its like you are being taken out of your body and are really disconnected, some times shaking, some times severe shaking can occur, very cold, heart attack symptoms, stroke symptoms, rapid breathing, difficult breathing, numbness, blured eyes, feelings that you will die, disoriented, palpatations, arithmia, blood pressure issues, there are a few more. the first time I had a panic attack I thought I was having a heart attack, went to the hospital, they gave me a seditive IV, did some blood tests and came back to tell me I was hyperventalating and should see someone in their pyschiatric department, when the doc said that I damn near disconnected myself from teh IV and walked out of the hospital thinking, hyperventalation? ok whatever, this is easy to control and get over. Boy was I wrong. and I think talking to my ADD doc was the stupidest thing I could have done because they put me on Xanax, I think they should have said, ok, you had a panic attack, so what, we'll monitor it for a few months and SEE what happens, just dont worry about anything, you're not going to die, yadda yadda yadda and and 28340% of people of this, yadda yadda yadda, have a nice day. But Nooooooooooooooooooooo they had to put me on the worse one at the very begnning which made me sooooooooooooooo scared it was unbelivable. Doctors really need to use caution, one attack does not mean you are doomed for life or need medication.
Good luck on cococting your own medication, if you can come up with something strong, better, that works faster and more effiecent let me know. I found out it will cost me about $100 to get three bottles to me, so I am considering now if I really want to order or not. If I can find Valerian root here I may try that first. Though Clarocet has some additional benefits especially for sleeping, which are needed! I just hope I can keep up what happend last night!
Life, or anyone else, do you ever wake up in the morning with a fast heart beat or chest pain of any kind? This happens to me quite a bit. I don't have any other health problems...
And yes a panic attack in public could be a meltdown or maybe not, I try to control them too much, which is bad, so I have never passed out or fell over from one, but I think it may be better to just let them happen rather than to stop them as you are suppressing a lot of stuff that wants to come out.
Anyway thats enough for today. Jim where are you? Did you climb into a hole or go on vacation? Next time take me with you! :-)
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