I've been having anxiety and panic attacks for the last 4 months but it seems morning is always my worst. It's really a tough feeling to describe. It starts about a minute after waking up. I toss and turn when I wake up and just lay there in a panic until it's time to get up. Everything seems so scary when I get up and feel sort of lightheaded or just really foggy brained and like I don't want to face anyone. I feel like I am about to be attacked or something terrible is fixing to happen. This feeling just makes me panic and think about the rest of the day and why I feel like this. As the day progresses it seems to subside around 2 or 3 in the afternoon and evening even more so and then by night I mostly feel normal. It makes me not even want to go to bed because I know it's all going to start over in the morning. Does anyone else feel this way and have any idea why? It's like I'm not even me for the first half or more of the day.
Thanks
Yes! i do struggle with this sometimes.. as soon as we wake up we instantly remember the anxieties we were feeling prior to going to sleep, i think its because we forget for a while and then it just hits us, it also could be that it is intensified as our heart rate gets a bit faster as we wake so it shocks us in some way. we just need to try and find ways to feel relaxed whilst we try to sleep, maybe listen to some relaxing sleep meditation music as it will distract your mind from thoughts and we can focus on the sounds instead, ive also found being in a clean and comfortable invironment promotes good relaxation for this as well. I hope you can find some ease, i know how hard it is xxx
Yes to everything you said especially now that I started taking sertaline the side effects plus waking up feeling like that is the worst
How long have you been taking the settling? I've been taking fluoxetine for 2 months now . Started 1 month on 10mg and now 1 month on 20mg. At first it was awful then I had great evenings and then upped dose to 20 and started off bad again. Now it's just like I'm in a rut and feels likeits giving me depression sometimes. Probably just feel depressed because always anxious.
That's supposed to say sertaline not settling.
Yesterday made it 5 days I have no energy I'm nauseaous, stomach cramps and worst Of all dizzy
Which has always been an issue for me
Same here basically. The energy comes and goes though and so does the nausea. I never get an appetite until late afternoon or evening anymore. And it's like I'm dizzy but not really spinning like dizzy, kinda like I'm drunk or stoned but I don't do either of them so it's not that.
Yes totally like an off balance feeling it's quite annoying
Annoying and I think it fuels my panic even more. Then all I do is start wondering why I feel like that and is it from the meds or something serious.
We're on the same page I get discouraged wondering if I'll ever get better it's so frustrating
Heres a trick. Eat a banana or avacado or some highly nutritious whole food before bed. Even take a magnessium glycinate pill. See if that helos. Many people who have morning bad anxiety its because its made worse by low blood sugar. So the food plus the magnessium glcinate will calm it. It worked for me. I also am menapausal so hormone issues were invoved im sure but still fixed it and it was simplier then i thought. I had read this on pinterest and tried it.worked fast.
I ordered magnesium oil spray I hope it works
I tried some magnesium tablets that my sister gave me but not sure what kind because they weren't in their bottle. It seemed to help and I took a Super B Complex and felt a little better for a couple days but then I went back to bad and stopped taking thinking it was them even though I'm sure it wasn't.
I've read magnesium defincey causes anxiety, depression, insomnia, dizziness and a lot of other things. Since its supplement I don't think it will interact with your Meds but ask your doctor first of course.
I did, and the pharmacist.. they both said it was fine. My anxious and health anxiety mind just makes me think something like my liver or kidneys aren't processing it out and I'm getting too much in my system. I know it's weird, especially when I just had blood and urine tests 2 months ago and all numbers were normal. Think I will start them again this evening.
Yeah I know what you mean I'm the same way lol
This is exactly how I feel too. Wake in the morning straight into extreme anxiety almost panic. I usually do some mindfullness or self hypnosis tape which helps me get up and force some breakfast down. Then as you say in the afternoon about 4pm it settles down and by evening I feel normal again. Appetite comes back for dinner. A psychologist told me this is because in the evening the day is over, nothing awful has happened and you feel safe. I think it may be something to do with raised cortisol levels in the morning. I have been taking 50 mg Dothep for the past six weeks which hasn't helped at all, except perhaps for sleep. The only thing that really helps is ativan or valium but these are strongly discouraged due to addiction problems. Helpful reading this forum and finding you are not alone.
Mornings are horrendous for me. I'll wake up and have that gut wrenching feeling of doom, I'll feel spsacey and panicky. I will often work myself up so much I'll feel sick and sometimes be sick. Every day I have to force myself to get ready and go to work but I'm so scared of bad things happening. I feel light headed and anxious about the day ahead, all I want to do is not leave my house. It does get better throughout the day, and when I get home from work and start to relax in the evening it mostly subsides.
How are you on weekends or days when you haven't got commitments? I'm starting to feel like this is agoraphobia in some respect, because on a weekend these symptoms don't happen to me, because I know that I don't have to go out if I don't want to, and if I do go out I'll have my partner with me. I keep trying to tell myself that if it doesn't happen on weekends there's no need for it to happen on weekdays, but alas it still does and it's ruining my life.
I still wake up panicky on weekends too. It seems to subside earlier though then it does on weekdays. Today is a new morning and of course I am feeling the same again. Shaky on the inside like I'm scared to death about something but I shouldn't be. Hoping this subsides soon and I get some relief. I just feel in such a daze and a fog and that scares me even more.