Hi. Not been here for a while. Had anxiety for years and have learned how to cope with it ( put up with it basically). Generally even though its rotten and gets me down i can cope day to day. I can feel shaky , heart racing, constant worrying, always feeling tense and uptight etc. People say i come across ( normal) ?? but inside my head is going crazy and i can feel so uncomfortable and uptight.By far the worst anxiety i get is Morning Anxiety. Every so often i wake feeling a sence of anxiousness like dread, my heart races, I sweat my arms and legs tingle and my stomach churns. I feel so bad i have to get out of bed , legs shaky, feeling scared, even if its 3am. It seems to wake me every morning at the same time and i dread waking up. This goes on for about a week then subsides. My anxiety when it happens is sky high and convinces me i'm going mad and maybe this time it wont pass. Then my racing head goes mad and wont stop. Also no appetite. cannot eat a thing and have to rely on milkshakes for a few days. Then( bam ) as if by magic, it passes and i wake feeling ok.As if it never happened. After years of anxiety i still cannot explain to doctors what brings this on and how bad it feels,. Anyone out there that can relate.?
Edwin - I get the same thing. my anxiety peaks for different reasons but whenever it does - the morning is always the worst. I wake up all shaky, my legs are cramped and hard to walk and I feel like I am coming out of my skin. Currently I take .5mg of Klonapin when I wake up and then I lay back down and try to get a few more hours of sleep. When I wake back up then it isn’t as bad. Still not great - but manageable.
yes i get this too.
totally understand where you are coming from.
its that feeling of dread and doom in the pit of my stomach.
i hate it. i try to take something and go back to sleep however it tends to make me worse.
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yeah i do the same w/u i have night anxiety, sometimes im okay in 1 2 3 months,but when it pops up in my mind that i have anxiety it will trigger.i dont want my anxiety comeback because im okay for almost half a year.but when i rember all that happen to me in my first time anxiety its attack again.