nailbiterbev
09-05-07, 16:44
Hello. Here's a description of a recent anxiety attack I'm only just recovering from. I was just wondering if anyone has experienced this for such a prolonged period of time...
I came back from my holiday a few days ago after suffering the most severe and prolonged bout of anxiety in my life. I have suffered panic attacks a good few times now but the last two or three have been unbearable and they're getting worse.
The most severe ones seem to be linked to illness. I had a bout of flu just before I went away, which led to an ear infection on holiday due to the pressure from flying. By mid to late week, I was feeling like I had the flu again and we decided to fly back early. The night before we flew home was one of the most harrowing nights of my life.
I was suddenly starting to get surges of anxiety sweeping all over me and adrenalin pumping through my body at a frightening rate. This has happened a couple of times when I've been very poorly and I know that feeling ill again, especially abroad, was what probably brought this on. Anyway, all night I felt a growing sense that something terrible was about to happen to me or my husband; my heart was pounding in my chest so hard that I thought it would break out! I can only describe the feeling as utter terror!
Along with this came the most acute case of restlessness I have ever experienced. I just paced up and down the hotel room all through the night. I couldn't even sit down unless some part of my body was moving; I was even rocking at one stage and thought I'd finally cracked. Needless to say, I didn't get a wink of sleep that night and the journey home was horrendous. These feelings lasted nearly three days; it was only when I could get to a walk in clinic and got some diazepam did the anxiety settle down.
This was the 3rd doctor I'd seen and the only one who would give me anything to help calm me down. In previous attacks, the doctors were unwilling to help at all; one even told me to drink warm milk! Why don't doctors take me seriously when I'm having these attacks? If only they could have a glimpse of how bad this feels.
So, to conclude, I now have a fear of being ill again and a fear of another anxiety episode. I also hate doctors because they don't take this seriously and they make me feel like I'm overreacting, yet the feelings are very much real to me!
I came back from my holiday a few days ago after suffering the most severe and prolonged bout of anxiety in my life. I have suffered panic attacks a good few times now but the last two or three have been unbearable and they're getting worse.
The most severe ones seem to be linked to illness. I had a bout of flu just before I went away, which led to an ear infection on holiday due to the pressure from flying. By mid to late week, I was feeling like I had the flu again and we decided to fly back early. The night before we flew home was one of the most harrowing nights of my life.
I was suddenly starting to get surges of anxiety sweeping all over me and adrenalin pumping through my body at a frightening rate. This has happened a couple of times when I've been very poorly and I know that feeling ill again, especially abroad, was what probably brought this on. Anyway, all night I felt a growing sense that something terrible was about to happen to me or my husband; my heart was pounding in my chest so hard that I thought it would break out! I can only describe the feeling as utter terror!
Along with this came the most acute case of restlessness I have ever experienced. I just paced up and down the hotel room all through the night. I couldn't even sit down unless some part of my body was moving; I was even rocking at one stage and thought I'd finally cracked. Needless to say, I didn't get a wink of sleep that night and the journey home was horrendous. These feelings lasted nearly three days; it was only when I could get to a walk in clinic and got some diazepam did the anxiety settle down.
This was the 3rd doctor I'd seen and the only one who would give me anything to help calm me down. In previous attacks, the doctors were unwilling to help at all; one even told me to drink warm milk! Why don't doctors take me seriously when I'm having these attacks? If only they could have a glimpse of how bad this feels.
So, to conclude, I now have a fear of being ill again and a fear of another anxiety episode. I also hate doctors because they don't take this seriously and they make me feel like I'm overreacting, yet the feelings are very much real to me!