MarcusD
13-04-07, 20:07
Hi there and thanks for looking at my post, hopefully your be able to give me peace of mind and make me believe im not going crazy :)
I have been diagnosed with suffering from anxiety/agraphobia and have suffered it for the past 3-4 years.
Currently i attend CBT and take 25mg of Amitriptyline each night. Since i started doing these things life had started to get better and i eventually got the courage to go back outside and face my fears. About this time last year things were at there worst were i went into a relapse and felt awful. It was a struggle to get out of bed and my confidence was totaly zapped. Over the year i started CBT and started taking the Amitriptyline and as i mentioned things started to pick up and i became confident and generally happy.
Now the problem is for the past few days i have started to feel slightly different within myself and have begun to suffer different sensations. The most dominant one is that i feel really light headed and kind of dizzy. It feels as if il fall over if i stand up or that il faint. Just writing this is quite difficult as the screen appears quite blurry at times. In turn these sensations make me worried and those evil negative thoughts were told to avoid pop in there un-controlably, thoughts such as "im going into relapse" "its getting worse" and so on.
I had this before a few months ago but nowhere near as strong. I spoke to my doctor and he told me its a mixture of Anxiety and Side effects from the pills i take. Gradually they went away.
The annoying thing is tommorow me and my partner have planned to go camping which im very excited about and have been for some time but i think if im still feeling like this i wont be able to go through with it as might be too much.
So my question is am i going into relapse or are these symtoms something totaly different?
Any advice would be much apprecaited
Thank you
Marcus
I have been diagnosed with suffering from anxiety/agraphobia and have suffered it for the past 3-4 years.
Currently i attend CBT and take 25mg of Amitriptyline each night. Since i started doing these things life had started to get better and i eventually got the courage to go back outside and face my fears. About this time last year things were at there worst were i went into a relapse and felt awful. It was a struggle to get out of bed and my confidence was totaly zapped. Over the year i started CBT and started taking the Amitriptyline and as i mentioned things started to pick up and i became confident and generally happy.
Now the problem is for the past few days i have started to feel slightly different within myself and have begun to suffer different sensations. The most dominant one is that i feel really light headed and kind of dizzy. It feels as if il fall over if i stand up or that il faint. Just writing this is quite difficult as the screen appears quite blurry at times. In turn these sensations make me worried and those evil negative thoughts were told to avoid pop in there un-controlably, thoughts such as "im going into relapse" "its getting worse" and so on.
I had this before a few months ago but nowhere near as strong. I spoke to my doctor and he told me its a mixture of Anxiety and Side effects from the pills i take. Gradually they went away.
The annoying thing is tommorow me and my partner have planned to go camping which im very excited about and have been for some time but i think if im still feeling like this i wont be able to go through with it as might be too much.
So my question is am i going into relapse or are these symtoms something totaly different?
Any advice would be much apprecaited
Thank you
Marcus