Ashman UK
07-01-07, 19:50
Thought id post about my story and how in short anxiety has affected me over the years..(10/11 years to be precise..).
Ive copy and pasted this from another site i have already posted on which pretty much sums up where i am at, at the minute...
Hi to everyone on here. Dunno where to start really with a similar problem i have had for over i think 10/11 years but hear goes.
I have suffered from anxiety since about the age of 22 and am now 33. It all started one night at a football match a couple of months after i had walked out of a job and during this football match had what i did not know at the time terrifyingly was an anxiety attack. The usual horrific symptoms like palpitations, short of breath etc and quite literally since that night to this day i still suffer from the effects of this problem randomly.
Over the years i have literally been through hell with this problem and my problem was more the actual symptoms frightenening me to death rather than depression or emotional etc. About this time last year i thought i had got it all literally under control and felt coming into 2006 i could really take my life forward more or less panic free. Or so i thought until about march 2006. Since then and ive had these kind of symptoms before all of a sudden i would/do still every so often get what feels like missed heartbeats/skipped heartbeats and i have had this symptom before over the years but for some reason since around last march/april they seem more pronounced than the ones i used to be able to deal with before and when i get a spell where i would get one missed/thump heartbeat id start to get a little nervous but could deal with it. I really start getting into a panic and really find it hard to deal with when it does it multiple times over say a 10/15 min period.
The odd missed heartbeat does not bother me too much but when it comes in batches as i have had one not only about an hour ago(actually was last monday) even though i have been to the doctor, been on and come off beta blockers, it still terrifies me to be honest.
At the moment though i do find that after i had one of these "episodes" i tend to get quite a bit of indigestion and usually pardon the word..when i burp..i can usually taste something i have probably eaten in the last hour or two and on just about every occasion when i have had one of these attacks..this is the case. Ive told this to my doctor who had done the usual test of the heart,blood pressure etc and i even suggested to him that maybe this is caused by indigestion of some kind which triggers these missed beats off or what feels like it.
So he put me on a course of Omperazole capsules which i think reduce stomach acid etc and have been on them for about 2/3 months but i still think its more to do with my digestion of certain foods. At least..thats what i try very hard to tell myself after having one of these..and ive had i think all the symptoms in the last 10/11 years..this is worst symptom/s i have ever experienced full stop.
One other thing aswell once ive had one of these attacks as i had today i usually take two rennies for indigestion and have found touch wood that it usually does not occur after that but the thing that still scares me about this is it can come on without warning and seems very random but again most of the time usually an hour or two after eating something that possibly that does not digest properly. Maybe i am clutching at straws but as u all know with these type of problems the mental battle is probably bigger than dealing with the symptoms themselves but i am hopefully convinced for me and you it can be done in the long run. Fingers crossed.
Thanks for reading.
...So there it is at the moment and i have been again to my doctors since last monday and he has given me more of the omperazole capsules for a month but to properly reassure me im booked in for an ecg a week on monday.
Since last monday ive only had the odd missed beat..typically in a way and hopefully though this trend will continue more and more with the next visit to docs..(th
Ive copy and pasted this from another site i have already posted on which pretty much sums up where i am at, at the minute...
Hi to everyone on here. Dunno where to start really with a similar problem i have had for over i think 10/11 years but hear goes.
I have suffered from anxiety since about the age of 22 and am now 33. It all started one night at a football match a couple of months after i had walked out of a job and during this football match had what i did not know at the time terrifyingly was an anxiety attack. The usual horrific symptoms like palpitations, short of breath etc and quite literally since that night to this day i still suffer from the effects of this problem randomly.
Over the years i have literally been through hell with this problem and my problem was more the actual symptoms frightenening me to death rather than depression or emotional etc. About this time last year i thought i had got it all literally under control and felt coming into 2006 i could really take my life forward more or less panic free. Or so i thought until about march 2006. Since then and ive had these kind of symptoms before all of a sudden i would/do still every so often get what feels like missed heartbeats/skipped heartbeats and i have had this symptom before over the years but for some reason since around last march/april they seem more pronounced than the ones i used to be able to deal with before and when i get a spell where i would get one missed/thump heartbeat id start to get a little nervous but could deal with it. I really start getting into a panic and really find it hard to deal with when it does it multiple times over say a 10/15 min period.
The odd missed heartbeat does not bother me too much but when it comes in batches as i have had one not only about an hour ago(actually was last monday) even though i have been to the doctor, been on and come off beta blockers, it still terrifies me to be honest.
At the moment though i do find that after i had one of these "episodes" i tend to get quite a bit of indigestion and usually pardon the word..when i burp..i can usually taste something i have probably eaten in the last hour or two and on just about every occasion when i have had one of these attacks..this is the case. Ive told this to my doctor who had done the usual test of the heart,blood pressure etc and i even suggested to him that maybe this is caused by indigestion of some kind which triggers these missed beats off or what feels like it.
So he put me on a course of Omperazole capsules which i think reduce stomach acid etc and have been on them for about 2/3 months but i still think its more to do with my digestion of certain foods. At least..thats what i try very hard to tell myself after having one of these..and ive had i think all the symptoms in the last 10/11 years..this is worst symptom/s i have ever experienced full stop.
One other thing aswell once ive had one of these attacks as i had today i usually take two rennies for indigestion and have found touch wood that it usually does not occur after that but the thing that still scares me about this is it can come on without warning and seems very random but again most of the time usually an hour or two after eating something that possibly that does not digest properly. Maybe i am clutching at straws but as u all know with these type of problems the mental battle is probably bigger than dealing with the symptoms themselves but i am hopefully convinced for me and you it can be done in the long run. Fingers crossed.
Thanks for reading.
...So there it is at the moment and i have been again to my doctors since last monday and he has given me more of the omperazole capsules for a month but to properly reassure me im booked in for an ecg a week on monday.
Since last monday ive only had the odd missed beat..typically in a way and hopefully though this trend will continue more and more with the next visit to docs..(th