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This can't be just anxiety. Every time I tried to nod off last night some part of my body would jerk/jump and also my head inside seems to jerk and sway. I was tired but my body wouldn't let me drift off. I eventually must have nodded off and I woke up in a sweat and all my body felt strange and warm and tingly. I had to literally force myself to get up, I feel constantly sick and not hardly eating anything. I have an awful horrid taste in my mouth and generally feel rotten.I keep feeling like I want to go to hospital and I was only at my doctors yesterday. I have 2 children aged 9 and 10 and the schools are off this week, I can't look after myself never mind them.
I can't get out of my head I have a brain tumour and its spread because i keep getting pains in my side and other places. I feel like I am dying and it's all getting fobbed off as anxiety.
Sorry for yet another post x
I'm sorry you are feeling not well. What did your doctor say?
She checked my pulse and listened to my heart, made me stand with my eyes shut and follow her finger. She thinks I have anxiety/depression and gave me some fluoxetine and I have to see her in 2 weeks time.
This can't be just anxiety. Every time I tried to nod off last night some part of my body would jerk/jump and also my head inside seems to jerk and sway. I was tired but my body wouldn't let me drift off. I eventually must have nodded off and I woke up in a sweat and all my body felt strange and warm and tingly.
I often gte this along with my mind as I am nodding off telling me I am going to stop betahing and die. Then I just start to fall asleep but jerk awake as I feel like I am falling and have stopped breathing.
I am pretty sure this is well documented as anxiety, but it is indeed very disturbing and upsetting.
countrygirl
12-02-13, 14:36
I have posted before on here about what I get sometimes. Just as I start to drift off to sleep I get horrible sensations as if I have dropped down a lift shaft crossed with a feeling as my brain donw through my body has been given an electrical shock. I don't physically move at all its an internal sensation. At its worst it can happen for 2-4 hrs after I go to bd and stop me sleeping. I haven't had it for months so it will be interesting to see if it comes back now I have told you about it!!
I have had it on and off for over 10 years and have always been told its due to high adrenaline levels/anxiety.
HypoCanuck
12-02-13, 14:59
I think this is called "Sleep Paralysis" - look it up. I used to get this all the time and have it for months at a time, then it would go away..
For me i would be starting to fall asleep and all of a sudden get this panic like feeling in my sleep where i was 1/2 awake and 1/2 asleep - i would not be able to move - and would feel like i was choking and could breath.
I would have to envision in my mind while asleep that i was banging my arm on a table - when i would awake i would be sleeping on the arm i thought i banged on the table.
I used to think it was a panic attack during sleep - but now know it was sleep paralysis.
I also once thought it was sleep apnea.
She checked my pulse and listened to my heart, made me stand with my eyes shut and follow her finger. She thinks I have anxiety/depression and gave me some fluoxetine and I have to see her in 2 weeks time.
Did you already start on fluoxetine? It can have some side effects when starting with it. They are usually temporary though.
And like I the people above this post I also have the experience panic can make you startled/jump when waking up.
I started them yesterday but I was already getting all these symptoms before.
I don't feel startled when i am waking up it's when my body relaxes and tries to fall asleep.
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