chillx
11-09-06, 14:26
Hi
I have been visiting this website for the last 8 weeks and have found it very useful. I am a mature student, married with two teenage children.
About 2 weeks following the end of my second year at university (June 2006) I took a turn in the supermarkert I felt I was going to faint and then i started sweating, shaking, my heart was racing and I thought I was going to be sick. Since then I have been having feelings of dizziness most days. The GP said she felt that it was anxiety and I had a panic attack in the supermarket. She changed my beta blocker (which I take for high blood pressure) and over the last 2 weeks I have slowly felt better and have been able to visit the supermarket and have been gaining in confidence.
Yesterday I went to the supermarket with my daughter and I felt relaxed we spent quite alot of time shopping and i bumped into two friends and we chatted for some time (something that I couldn't have done 2 months ago). Then we went to the self check out ,we were laughing and having fun as i scanned the items. Suddenly I felt I was going to faint, I grabbed the trolley and the feeling was still there I then leant over the trolley until it passed. I don't understand where this came from as I have been feeling much better over the last 14 days and had no feelings of anxiety as i shopped, now I feel I am back to square 1. Has anyone else felt like this? This morning I had to take my car to the garage for a service and I got into quite a state not about driving but about walking the short distance home. In the end I asked the mechanic to drive me home and he also said he would drop the car off at the house when the service is complete. I felt a failure. Now I am also worried about going back to university in 2 weeks time. Not sure whether I can cope.
My main concern is the dizziness and sudden feelings that I am going to faint which come on unprovoked which makes me feel that it is more than just anxiety and there is something more serious. Although the GP seems confident that it is stress I am not convinced. If I could accept it as a symptom of stress I think it would be easier to move on.
Thanks for reading this
chillx
I have been visiting this website for the last 8 weeks and have found it very useful. I am a mature student, married with two teenage children.
About 2 weeks following the end of my second year at university (June 2006) I took a turn in the supermarkert I felt I was going to faint and then i started sweating, shaking, my heart was racing and I thought I was going to be sick. Since then I have been having feelings of dizziness most days. The GP said she felt that it was anxiety and I had a panic attack in the supermarket. She changed my beta blocker (which I take for high blood pressure) and over the last 2 weeks I have slowly felt better and have been able to visit the supermarket and have been gaining in confidence.
Yesterday I went to the supermarket with my daughter and I felt relaxed we spent quite alot of time shopping and i bumped into two friends and we chatted for some time (something that I couldn't have done 2 months ago). Then we went to the self check out ,we were laughing and having fun as i scanned the items. Suddenly I felt I was going to faint, I grabbed the trolley and the feeling was still there I then leant over the trolley until it passed. I don't understand where this came from as I have been feeling much better over the last 14 days and had no feelings of anxiety as i shopped, now I feel I am back to square 1. Has anyone else felt like this? This morning I had to take my car to the garage for a service and I got into quite a state not about driving but about walking the short distance home. In the end I asked the mechanic to drive me home and he also said he would drop the car off at the house when the service is complete. I felt a failure. Now I am also worried about going back to university in 2 weeks time. Not sure whether I can cope.
My main concern is the dizziness and sudden feelings that I am going to faint which come on unprovoked which makes me feel that it is more than just anxiety and there is something more serious. Although the GP seems confident that it is stress I am not convinced. If I could accept it as a symptom of stress I think it would be easier to move on.
Thanks for reading this
chillx