Whiskers
27-04-08, 15:27
Hi all,
I am looking for some reassurance / advice please. Last night I had my first panic attack - I have had health anxiety for about a month or so now - pretty much constantly (but have always been an anxious person). I have been posting on here about me panicking about having rabies as I have a nerve pain in my finger where I was bitten by a cat last Septemberin Greece. I have worked myself up about it despite ressaurances from the doctoor that there is no risk (the pain is so real and I heard it was a symptom). Last night after coming back from a comedy club with my boyfriend and Sister and her fiance I was trying to get to sleep and I kept feeling a tingling in my finger (the bitten one) and twitches on my back by my spine. I sat up in a panic and this led to my boyfirend lossing his cool slightly (only slightly) and getting very frustrated telling me again and again I did not have rabies and why could I not accept that. I tried to explain that it's hard when there is a very real pain / and feeling where I was bitten - a constant trigger.
I then started hyperventilating and could not stop crying. After about an hour my boyfriend rang NHS direct who were pretty useless and worked me up even more. I the tried and tried and tried to sleep by I had a racing heart and that horrible tight sort of heart / chest worried lurching pain that's so strong - I had this constantly and everytime I thought it was going to subside and I could finally get some sleep I got the whole lurch again - can anyone relate to this?
I called the docs this morning and have been prescribed valium and temazepan to help me sleep later. I have never taken this before. I took a valium about and hour and a half ago and I feel ever so slightly better but have just tried to sleep (I did not sleep at all last night and consequently am feeling all sorts of aches pains and tingles) but I keep getting the lurching feeling. It's sending me up the wall - can anyone relate to this and offer some advice?
Thanks so much
Sharon
xx
I am looking for some reassurance / advice please. Last night I had my first panic attack - I have had health anxiety for about a month or so now - pretty much constantly (but have always been an anxious person). I have been posting on here about me panicking about having rabies as I have a nerve pain in my finger where I was bitten by a cat last Septemberin Greece. I have worked myself up about it despite ressaurances from the doctoor that there is no risk (the pain is so real and I heard it was a symptom). Last night after coming back from a comedy club with my boyfriend and Sister and her fiance I was trying to get to sleep and I kept feeling a tingling in my finger (the bitten one) and twitches on my back by my spine. I sat up in a panic and this led to my boyfirend lossing his cool slightly (only slightly) and getting very frustrated telling me again and again I did not have rabies and why could I not accept that. I tried to explain that it's hard when there is a very real pain / and feeling where I was bitten - a constant trigger.
I then started hyperventilating and could not stop crying. After about an hour my boyfriend rang NHS direct who were pretty useless and worked me up even more. I the tried and tried and tried to sleep by I had a racing heart and that horrible tight sort of heart / chest worried lurching pain that's so strong - I had this constantly and everytime I thought it was going to subside and I could finally get some sleep I got the whole lurch again - can anyone relate to this?
I called the docs this morning and have been prescribed valium and temazepan to help me sleep later. I have never taken this before. I took a valium about and hour and a half ago and I feel ever so slightly better but have just tried to sleep (I did not sleep at all last night and consequently am feeling all sorts of aches pains and tingles) but I keep getting the lurching feeling. It's sending me up the wall - can anyone relate to this and offer some advice?
Thanks so much
Sharon
xx