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since october 2013 i gradually because house bound. first i was fighting thinking of the worse (having dizziness and all those symptoms) and then i just accepted the fact I am agoraphobic. Complete housebound, can't leave at all or else panic ensues... I do leave with some one or not at all sometimes and that even is difficult because of the amount of times I can't breathe. Question is, has anyone got a solution using meds? Can they really make you well to the point of going out again? I started taking meds. Trying pretty much breathing etc but it doesn't work for me... Please tell me that there's a solution at least with that. Sorry for my english if it was bad.. I'm to sad to think :/
greetings..
Chris..
Have you tried taking meds ?
I was housebound last year for a few month but since starting new medication in September I'm now getting out and about so it can be done
I'd say it was pregablin that was my saviour
isn't pregabalin for epilepsy and other symptoms? Where you an agoraphobic and took that?
Yes it is also prescribed for GAD
GingerFish
21-02-16, 11:16
I was housebound from panics for over 6 months a few years ago and I was too scared to take meds due to my OCD contamination fears and plus I took a bad reaction to one antidepressant before and it put me off for life so I had to deal with agoraphobia on my own and in a different way. The books and audiotapes of Dr Claire Weekes helped me along with making a 'challenge chart'. I wrote down everything I was scared to do such as minor things like going out to the bins outside my house to major things like go on a bus or go into town and I made myself to each thing 10 times over the space of a month and I was mark how hard it was and the first few times were awful and I could barely do it and it made my anxiety worse but each time I exposed myself after that, it got easier and easier. This approach along with meds is a good way to go as no matter what meds you take, eventually you will have to expose yourself to your fears and its a big step no matter how far on with meds you are but its worth it. My gran was housebound for 2 years with panics and agoraphobia too and she took Prozac. That helped her along with the exposure approach once she had settled into her meds. So meds can help and I wish you luck taking them.
but meds cant take that anxious feeling etc? like the dizziness, feeling faint, shortness of breath etc?i think they do...dont they?
I don't have the physical symptoms anymore apart from a morning when I have a churning stomach but I don't shake anymore, heart racing or feeling faint. I do still have mental anxiety but it's much better than it was
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