Hello, I am 51 years old and have suffered with anxiety and had bouts of depression for a few years.
Currently due to an accumulative effect of lots of life problems I am going through a period of acute anxiety,but something I have not experienced before are nocturnal panic attacks which are making me feel worse.
I have a constant dry mouth and the lump in throat feelin,knotted stomach, constant need to swallow,tight chest etc etc
My Dr started me on Citalopram but the side effects were horrible so I had to stop them.
I can't work at the moment as I work in the Medical profession and I lost concentration and confidence.
I dread going to bed at night as the panics at night seem so much worse and its a double edged sword because I feel panicky about bed time it make things 10 x worse.
Any advice would be most gratefully received.
Thanks x
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Have you been back to your doc? While you had a bad experience with citalopram, there are other drugs that can be tried. If you don't want to go down that route, maybe you could ask about other kinds of help - counselling or CBT or something. You'll get lots of support on NMP anyway - and do have a read of the articles on the left of the page xx
