lababy
21-12-07, 11:06
Hi,
I am 27 years old and 2 months ago I had a panick attack... since then it's been up and down with the attacks going from being able to control them to uncontrollable... this week in particular is a fairly vicious one.
I lost a family member 4 months ago, and pretty much blocked everything out & put everything to the back of my mind and convinced myself that I had no right to grieve (prior arguement not resolved). All was fine then and that's when I woke up one morning with a pain in my shoulder and generally feeling not right... I went to the doctor, but because I went to work I couldn't go to my own regular doctor so I went to someone local to my workplace. Worst decision ever... such a horrible crass person who completely freaked me out on clots and going to the hospital and not to drive alone etc etc.. It ended up being a Gastro/ Puking bug and as I had a reaction to the drugs she prescribed she came to the "happy" conclusion the next morning that it was simply a gastro bug and the shoulder was muscular. Needless to say I freaked out... didn't sleep for fear of the imaginary "clot" hence, the bug lingered as I didn't sleep it off and give my system a rest.. A couple of weeks later I had my first panic attack and to be honest with you, it's been a struggle ever since. Following this came an ear infection that lingered for about 4 weeks due to "Stress"
I've been quite proactive about it though and when I finally got in to see my own doctor (who coincidentally knew that whenever I get a bug some muscle in my body just gets sore!) told me I'd acted very quickly on it and told me to go see a counsellor and had to relax and gave me a card for a Reflexologist and told me to go to Yoga.
To cut a long story short... I went to see a Psychotherapist (who is not really suiting me at the moment as kind of look down on other treatments?)about 5 times and have been going to a fantastic acupuncturist ... the acupuncture has done me more good than the therapist and has been a huge source of comfort and indeed help. If I was to reccommend something it would be this...
She has also helped me in identifying what would be fantastic for me i.e. tai chi/ Qi Kong and yoga... also has reccommended Cognitive Behavior Therapist yesterday. I spoke with him yesterday over the phone and again he sounds very good and even told me that it sounds to him like post traumatic stress.
I know this is very longwinded here but I really didn't know where to start and it kind of flowed out of me as if I have to explain myself!
You see my problem is the dizziness, lightheadedness which spirals into heart pumping and freaking out. I have diazepam in my bag and only take half when I need to... 20 tabs have lasted me 2 months now which at least is SOMETHING I suppose! If I get a pain in my head I panic and the rest follows and for 2 days after I can't sleep properly and am exhausted for 2 days.
My other problem was that I couldn't find a support network or didn't know the first thing about how to deal with or to solve this problem! Even now, all I need is for someone to talk me through it that knows what I'm going through and to tell me I'm ok?
I think I've finally found the support network I've been looking for and I hope that it's okay to write on this when I am freaking out and help will be there!!
At the moment I'm just so tired and think that the feelings I have in my head are down to not relaxing and not getting the best sleep - apparently I gring my teeth in my sleep and also stress in my sleep!
Thank you so much if you haven't gotten bored by my longwinded introduction!
Lababy:wacko:
I am 27 years old and 2 months ago I had a panick attack... since then it's been up and down with the attacks going from being able to control them to uncontrollable... this week in particular is a fairly vicious one.
I lost a family member 4 months ago, and pretty much blocked everything out & put everything to the back of my mind and convinced myself that I had no right to grieve (prior arguement not resolved). All was fine then and that's when I woke up one morning with a pain in my shoulder and generally feeling not right... I went to the doctor, but because I went to work I couldn't go to my own regular doctor so I went to someone local to my workplace. Worst decision ever... such a horrible crass person who completely freaked me out on clots and going to the hospital and not to drive alone etc etc.. It ended up being a Gastro/ Puking bug and as I had a reaction to the drugs she prescribed she came to the "happy" conclusion the next morning that it was simply a gastro bug and the shoulder was muscular. Needless to say I freaked out... didn't sleep for fear of the imaginary "clot" hence, the bug lingered as I didn't sleep it off and give my system a rest.. A couple of weeks later I had my first panic attack and to be honest with you, it's been a struggle ever since. Following this came an ear infection that lingered for about 4 weeks due to "Stress"
I've been quite proactive about it though and when I finally got in to see my own doctor (who coincidentally knew that whenever I get a bug some muscle in my body just gets sore!) told me I'd acted very quickly on it and told me to go see a counsellor and had to relax and gave me a card for a Reflexologist and told me to go to Yoga.
To cut a long story short... I went to see a Psychotherapist (who is not really suiting me at the moment as kind of look down on other treatments?)about 5 times and have been going to a fantastic acupuncturist ... the acupuncture has done me more good than the therapist and has been a huge source of comfort and indeed help. If I was to reccommend something it would be this...
She has also helped me in identifying what would be fantastic for me i.e. tai chi/ Qi Kong and yoga... also has reccommended Cognitive Behavior Therapist yesterday. I spoke with him yesterday over the phone and again he sounds very good and even told me that it sounds to him like post traumatic stress.
I know this is very longwinded here but I really didn't know where to start and it kind of flowed out of me as if I have to explain myself!
You see my problem is the dizziness, lightheadedness which spirals into heart pumping and freaking out. I have diazepam in my bag and only take half when I need to... 20 tabs have lasted me 2 months now which at least is SOMETHING I suppose! If I get a pain in my head I panic and the rest follows and for 2 days after I can't sleep properly and am exhausted for 2 days.
My other problem was that I couldn't find a support network or didn't know the first thing about how to deal with or to solve this problem! Even now, all I need is for someone to talk me through it that knows what I'm going through and to tell me I'm ok?
I think I've finally found the support network I've been looking for and I hope that it's okay to write on this when I am freaking out and help will be there!!
At the moment I'm just so tired and think that the feelings I have in my head are down to not relaxing and not getting the best sleep - apparently I gring my teeth in my sleep and also stress in my sleep!
Thank you so much if you haven't gotten bored by my longwinded introduction!
Lababy:wacko: