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Bad Panic/Anxiety and more
Hello everyone I am new here, seen your messages and had to post. I am a 26 yr old single man who is experiencing horrible crushing anxiety and panic attacks. I dont know where else to turn to. I have been losing weight for 2 weeks, roughly 25lbs lost already and I was already skinny (im at 130 and I weighed 155).
Two years ago I had panic attacks and was able to get over them on my own, but in the last month something has happened to me. I cannot sleep anymore at night, wake up shaking, sometimes i come out of sleep in (sleep maybe 2 hours) a full on panic attack. I am able to talk myself down from the panic attacks but the anxiety is the worse. I am scared to take medications because 2 years ago I had problems (bad reactions) with Selexus and paxil both, and the only thing that helped was staying off the medications entirely. Because I had such bad reactions to the drugs, now I am deathly scared of taking medicatrions, and as bad as the panic atacks and anxiety are, drugs are worse to my thinking.
I have trouble eating at all with stomach upset sometimes and just have no appetatie at all. I have to keep breathing deep cause it feels like I cannot breathe and my hands and feet stay very cold. Occasionally i get very painful chills/tingles that start in my brain and seem to move outward. Two years ago I seen several doctors and rang up quite a hospitable bill, and the docs found nothing. As I am sitting here i am shaking so badd I can hardly type. I feel so badd I cannot focus on anything but my symptoms and then I feel worse. Please tell me what I can do. I have an appointment with a psyychatrist but I dont know if I will be able to make it with how fast I am losing weight, as its still weeks away. I am eating too, but losing the weight anyway.
Edited 12/29/2003 7:59:15 AM ET by panicman