Ruby3
25-06-14, 00:42
Hi all. I am new to this forum but not to panic and GA. I have suffered panic attacks since I was about 20, getting them really badly just after my twins were born 20 years ago. I initially had all the tests so many of us go through to come back negative. To cut a long story short about 12 years ago I was put into Seroxat that really helped. Low dose. I can't remember how I was transferred onto Venlafaxine and have been taking 75 mg for the last 7 years. A visit to a psychologist told me to carry on taking the drugs! Really useful.
So I have learned in the main, with the help of my happy pills, to manage my panic attacks. I can more or less make them go away with a bit of distraction but they are still horrendous at times. I try not to make them stop me doing anything.
In addition I think I have GA as I jump at things more easily than other people seem to. I've had CBT, read every book, distract myself, try and exercise etc etc.
However I just wondered if anyone else suffers my latest health concern!! I can be absolutely fine when I get an instant, momentary dizzy spell then it goes. It isn't a full blown dizziness it is more like a sudden pressure in my forehead and temples that makes me feel really drunk and disorientated for half a second and then it goes. I can feel it when I lie down in bed with my eyes closed. I don't appear to have any other symptom but it feels dizzy in my forehead if that makes sense?! I also feel really unbalanced walking at the moment. As if I am on a boat a bit. But I'm not having a panic attack so why is this? Is it GA?
I don't know if it is postural a s I know I tense my neck and shoulders a lot. However I keep jerking awake just when trying to sleep as I can feel these dizzy bursts in my head.
So I am not panicking but actually relatively calm, for me, wondering if this is something I should concern my GP with or is this yet another version of panic and general anxiety?
I tend to put all aches, pains and feeling rubbish down to GA etc but need to get this specific healthy concern behind me so I can distract my mind and ignore it! But I can't for worrying it is my heart / Venlafaxine long term damage Inhave caused myself.
Does anyone else get these random dizzy episodes that don't seem related to full blown panics? It's like I have been on a roundabout but at the end of feeling better after spinning!
It's odd.
So sorry to ask. I feel silly but this flipping affliction takes over your life and there is no-one I can really talk with about it.
Thank you for your time!
Ruby
Xx:blush:
So I have learned in the main, with the help of my happy pills, to manage my panic attacks. I can more or less make them go away with a bit of distraction but they are still horrendous at times. I try not to make them stop me doing anything.
In addition I think I have GA as I jump at things more easily than other people seem to. I've had CBT, read every book, distract myself, try and exercise etc etc.
However I just wondered if anyone else suffers my latest health concern!! I can be absolutely fine when I get an instant, momentary dizzy spell then it goes. It isn't a full blown dizziness it is more like a sudden pressure in my forehead and temples that makes me feel really drunk and disorientated for half a second and then it goes. I can feel it when I lie down in bed with my eyes closed. I don't appear to have any other symptom but it feels dizzy in my forehead if that makes sense?! I also feel really unbalanced walking at the moment. As if I am on a boat a bit. But I'm not having a panic attack so why is this? Is it GA?
I don't know if it is postural a s I know I tense my neck and shoulders a lot. However I keep jerking awake just when trying to sleep as I can feel these dizzy bursts in my head.
So I am not panicking but actually relatively calm, for me, wondering if this is something I should concern my GP with or is this yet another version of panic and general anxiety?
I tend to put all aches, pains and feeling rubbish down to GA etc but need to get this specific healthy concern behind me so I can distract my mind and ignore it! But I can't for worrying it is my heart / Venlafaxine long term damage Inhave caused myself.
Does anyone else get these random dizzy episodes that don't seem related to full blown panics? It's like I have been on a roundabout but at the end of feeling better after spinning!
It's odd.
So sorry to ask. I feel silly but this flipping affliction takes over your life and there is no-one I can really talk with about it.
Thank you for your time!
Ruby
Xx:blush: