so the past couple e of months ive been getting these really horrible spells of dizziness like im going to faint and like im floating out of my body, my heart starts to race and i feel like just collapsing on a heap in the floor (obviously i dont). the dr just keeps saying its anxiety but how does he know. all i have had is blood tests and ecg. it scares the life out of me and when it happens i have this overwhelming sense of fear like im just going to drop dead. yes it passes but i hate it, i hate living like this and i just dont know how much more i can take. i am so desperate to just feel normal again or for the dr to stop saying its anxiwty and investigate to find out what it really is. any advice welcome
hi suzanne, i can completely understand exactly how you are feeling as i had the same symptoms and felt just the same as to how much more could i take and worried the drs were missing something. i fell ill with mental health in september 2016 it began with feeling i couldnt breathe and id to go dizzy and my heart would race and then i would go into a full blown panic attack that would affect my vision and balance. i was up my drs nearly everyday and was told its anxiety and panic disorder, i didnt sleep and when i did i would wake in a panic attack feeling i couldnt breathe, i could barely eat as i felt i couldnt swallow, i too wondered how long i could live like that, in the end i couldnt go out or drive and i turned to this page and found it a great help to hear other peoples stories…i had all the blood tests and numerous ecg’s i even ended up in a&e a few times adamant i was dying luckily i have a great dr who helped a lot, i tried different anti depressents to calm the anxiety and panic i was also given propanolol to reduce the palpitations and diazepam to help me sleep, i went to counselling and private hypnotism and meditation. sorry for such a long winded post but i feel it may help to know you arent the only one going through this and i promise you will get better it is a phase and it will subside, have you tried meditation? i found it helpful..you can get anxiety and panic ones from you tube i would do them of an evening, the power of the mind is so strong and i found it was about retraining my brain and i pulled through and now im fine i get the odd minor “ooh i cant breathe” but ill breathe onto my hand so i can feel it and it tells my brain i am breathing and im ok and it helps, theres lots of little things you can do to help i would also try the 7-11 breathing that was also good..if someone would have told me two years ago i would be fine now and have brought my first home and be expecting my first child no way would i have believed them as i was adamant the drs were missing something and i was seriously ill but now im fine…sorry for the long winded post..i hope hearing my story will help you and know that you will be fine and you arent alone.
thank you so much for taking the time to tell your story. its actually very reassuring to know that you too have felt like this and as you say you have come through it. im currently having counselling on my 5th session and it does seem to be helping a little but im struggling to unerstand how my brain can make me dizzy and have so many other symptoms so convinced there is something more serious. i dont think it helps as my dr just looks at me like im wasting his time, i dont really have anyone i can talk to about it and i really am struggling to see light at the end of the tunnel. ive tried meditation before but i just end up thinkint about other stuff while its playing - but maybe i will try it again. what was the hypnotism you had? i will literally try anything. i was on citalopram but it caused oanic attacks and made me on edge 24 hours a day so i stopped
i was exactly the same i didnt believe that anxiety and panic attacks could really be what was making me so ill it would cause actual pain i couldnt function properly, i was too convinced i was seriously ill and my dr had it all wrong i even had a ct scan which came back fine, i had the same with a couple of drs too just looking at me like i was wasting their time but luckily my own dr was really good. honestly i was the same as you i had no one that understood nor i felt was interested thats why i joint this forum but you will get better it will pass in time its a horrible illness to have but it will get better, im not sure what hypnotism it was i think it was just for anxiety and panic disorder i found it useful when i could calm down but i was so erratic all of the time the panic attacks were never ending but i managed to control them eventually, are you taking any medication now?
HI have been reading your story, could you tell me what antidepressant you are on now many thanks , as I need to go on one, with not many side effects
hi im not on any medication now, i was on citalopram on and off ans i tried sertriline, another thing i had checked was my bloods many times and i did come back with very low b12 levels and that can cause anxiety and panic attacks so i now have injections maybe worth getting checked?
HI how did you get on with sertrilin, many side effects at all, ****