Hello ladies for the past week i have been struggling with nightly anxiety and panic attacks. You all have been a great help to me, when i am feeling my symptoms i logged on asap and it calms me. tonight so far i had 2 attacks and its only 2;19 am. I vomited also because of gerd. My stomach feels funny, my dygestion , i feel so off. My breathing is also off. My ears buzzing. I have 7 days till my period, i am thinking that, that is the problem. I am 1 month in peri never felt like this in my life. Only God and you ladies know what i am going through. Right now i am watching tv hoping that it calms me, plus drinking peppermint tea. I live alone and it is scary. I hate the fact that i am going through this. Why i ask myself. I cry because what else can i do.
Morning dear Sally I have only just joined this site but I can sympathise with all your symptoms except the gerd I have suffered with anxiety disorder for many years it is scarey especially in the night or early hours but you did the right thing got up and made a drink and put the tele on any thing to try and take your mind off till it passes ’ the thing with these symptoms is each one makes you panic and scared especially when your on your own saying that I don’t live on my own but it didn’t make any difference to me because I try to hide it and would rather be alone when I get these symptoms ’ not knowing you very well I don’t know if you are getting any help or age or if anything triggered these attacks or are they new to you ’ so I can only tell you how I delt with them ’ when I had an attack if it was during the day I would just go out and walk and walk it was the only thing that calmed me down if it was in the night which makes everything worse anyway I would get up and sit in the garden make a drink and watched tele till I couldn’t keep my eyes open ’ but in the end I Had CBT therapy because I did think I was going mad but when it was all explained to me what all the symptoms I was getting was normal anxiety symptoms and how to try and deal with them I started to feel better ’ that was some years ago I’m still the same now I an a very anxious person just don’t have the attacks as often unless something triggers them off ’ I would try breathing excersise and I use rescue remedy that you drop on your tongue ’ I hope you are feeling better and that your feelings have passed unfortunately there isent a quick fix for anxiety I was told you have to practice telling yourself it’s just anxiety and the feelings will pass because it goes away but then comes back doesn’t it that’s how i tought myself not to panic as much just say to yourself well I have had this before and it didn’t do anything to me ’ hope I haven’t gone on too much and hope your feeling better x
Hang in there… Yes, yes i totally sympathise, i have this too. I dread going to bed as i wake up numerous times during the night thinking im dying. Good idea watching TV, i might make myself do that. I usually end up on my Ipad looking up all the horrible things i think i might have, this has definitely given me health anxiety. I regularly wake up at 1.30am, 3am and 4am and find it difficult to get back to sleep. I dont know where i am with my periods as the last one was June. I am 54, so should be on the tail end of this now (hoping) anyways, i also do feel the feelings you feel on the lead up to getting a period, I can definitely relate to breathing being off, i did get hot flushes a while back and am now getting them again! -
This is truly a massive underestimated problem for women, my GP like most mentioned on here, are not helpful, when i mentioned issues at 47 i was just told i look edgy on one visit and recently my GP just handed me a number of a women who specialised in Meno problems that is private. The first GP i saw when i first noticed symptoms when i was 47, wanted to give me anti-depressents, i wasnt depressed just wanted to know why i was feeling so weird, not once was it mentioned that i may be peri-menopausal. Anyhow yes we are all here and helping each other, this site has been a saviour for me, keep posting and you will get support on here. x
Hi Sally, just checking in to see how you’ve been the past couple of days?
Praying for better days for you!!