PatrickChicago
04-07-13, 09:10
Hello everyone, I'm new here - going though my own thing, and saw the support people give to others who are suffering from anxiety on this web page and thought I could use some tonight..
Exactly one week ago, I suddenly - about midway though the day - started tasting a exceedingly salty taste in my mouth. I would describe it as if you were to swish salt water around your mouth and spit it out... that kind of feeling. Like my saliva was soaked in salt.
Despite how much I drank, it wouldn't go away. And stayed constant for days, and only started feeling like it was starting to ease around two days ago. Nothing else was wrong with my mouth, just a horrid salty taste that at times literally my my tongue tingle or feel burned.
Surprisingly, I was able to not have a full blown horrible anxiety attack during that, and earlier today it was so dulled down that I assumed it was over.
Then, around midnight here, I was getting ready to go to bed and suddenly noticed a menthol "cool" taste on the inside of my cheeks.
It tingles and feels almost cold... the salty taste is pretty much gone... just a new tingling "cool" feeling that, as I was laying down to sleep, I really focused on and as I drifted off - BOOM - snapped awake with pure panic attack about it and feeling like I was losing my mind and that something awful was behind the sensation (it's my only symptom of... well... anything..)
I started worrying about why this has been happening for days, why I can't get rid of it, and worrying that I won't be able to sleep with it now that I am focused on it. I have suffered from insomnia a ton in my life, and I dread it when it happens because it makes me a wildly irrational person who thinks he'll never sleep again.
Basically, I'm all over the board here and I know it - but I just was hoping for some reassurance that it is all going to be alright. I goddamn hate being an anxious person... mainly because I am not always one, but when I fall into it, I tend to dive head first - if you know what I mean?
Exactly one week ago, I suddenly - about midway though the day - started tasting a exceedingly salty taste in my mouth. I would describe it as if you were to swish salt water around your mouth and spit it out... that kind of feeling. Like my saliva was soaked in salt.
Despite how much I drank, it wouldn't go away. And stayed constant for days, and only started feeling like it was starting to ease around two days ago. Nothing else was wrong with my mouth, just a horrid salty taste that at times literally my my tongue tingle or feel burned.
Surprisingly, I was able to not have a full blown horrible anxiety attack during that, and earlier today it was so dulled down that I assumed it was over.
Then, around midnight here, I was getting ready to go to bed and suddenly noticed a menthol "cool" taste on the inside of my cheeks.
It tingles and feels almost cold... the salty taste is pretty much gone... just a new tingling "cool" feeling that, as I was laying down to sleep, I really focused on and as I drifted off - BOOM - snapped awake with pure panic attack about it and feeling like I was losing my mind and that something awful was behind the sensation (it's my only symptom of... well... anything..)
I started worrying about why this has been happening for days, why I can't get rid of it, and worrying that I won't be able to sleep with it now that I am focused on it. I have suffered from insomnia a ton in my life, and I dread it when it happens because it makes me a wildly irrational person who thinks he'll never sleep again.
Basically, I'm all over the board here and I know it - but I just was hoping for some reassurance that it is all going to be alright. I goddamn hate being an anxious person... mainly because I am not always one, but when I fall into it, I tend to dive head first - if you know what I mean?