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13-04-05, 15:22
Hi all, hope your doing fine this day.
I have had a couple of questions in my ming for some time that I hope you all can help me with and perhaps others can benefit from.
As I understand I now have panic disorder which grew from panic attacks (I have had two really big ones and several hundred smaller ones together with an all-day anxiety status).
This last friday I had my first meeting with my psychiatrist who immediately gave me Sobril 10mg and Citalopram 10mg since I couldn't stop crying for a single minute of the one hour meeting. I'm supposed to take the Sobril for the first two or three weeks due to the fact that I have anxiety from the moment I wake up untill I finally go to sleep. However, my anxiety isn't really anxiety in my mind, it is more a reaction to the fact that I constantly have a hard time breathing, tingling sensation in my fingers and horrible food to stomach pains. Anyways, I have been on the Sobril pills for 7 days and Citalopram for six days (half a pill each morning). Now, I can't say I feel any different except for the first four hours of the day I really feel fine. But, half an hour to one hour after eating lunch my "feeling" arise and I feel really ill and having anxiety / panic. About an hour or two after taking the second sobril of the day all is fine.
Almost everywhere I read I get contradictory information and I hope you could perhaps shed some light for this whole situation.
I really don't know the reason for me getting my Panic Attacks although after some investigation I think I know what happened.
To the questions (Sorry for this being a long one... but you know....)
I was really active in training myself as part of a promise I made to myself that I would quit smoking, start training and begin to learn how to eat properly. The 16'th of february 2000 I quit smoking (and haven't smoked since) joined a gym, talked to a food advisor. Started to train slowly and increased the training to an almost rediculous level. Today I know almost all there is to know about food, training and being "healty". The problem for me was that no matter how hard I trained and held an exact diet nothing really happened. I didn't loose the extra body fat, I didn't grow any real muscular mass (a bit but not as much as I expected) and was a bit depressed by the whole situation, not as depressed as I would quit but I felt something must be wrong. After four years of intence training I just stopped, thought I should pause over the winter and then be smart about it and be even more accurate with my training as soon as the spring / summer was around the corner. Take a new step and really be carefull and make sure to reach my training goals (I trained both muscular and cardio vascular training atleast five days a week).
About four months after I had quit training I got my first serious Panic Attack and I must mention I also had an episode with I girl I have known for a long time that I was really anxious to, finally, be sexually engaged with (needless to say I couldn't perform). After these two events I got my first Attack. Now, I don't know if the combination of those could be the reason but I quess it is.
My mother talked to a training expert n the army who stated it is not all that uncommon that athletes who stop training do get anxiety / panic attacks shortly after and that my abscence of training really could be a reason.
Do you know if it is that common that stopping training could result in a panic / anxiety attack or disorder?
Would me starting training again perhaps help me getting rid of the symptoms and perhaps even beat the disorder?
The medicinal stuff really bothers me. I have never tried any drugs apart from an occational beer and cigarette and I don't ever use pills for headaches or anything else. I don't feel comfortable taking these pills especially since I learned I maby will have to take them for the rest of my life.
The most important questions is if most of "us" who do take Citalopram can kick them after the period we need to take them?
And perhaps a
I have had a couple of questions in my ming for some time that I hope you all can help me with and perhaps others can benefit from.
As I understand I now have panic disorder which grew from panic attacks (I have had two really big ones and several hundred smaller ones together with an all-day anxiety status).
This last friday I had my first meeting with my psychiatrist who immediately gave me Sobril 10mg and Citalopram 10mg since I couldn't stop crying for a single minute of the one hour meeting. I'm supposed to take the Sobril for the first two or three weeks due to the fact that I have anxiety from the moment I wake up untill I finally go to sleep. However, my anxiety isn't really anxiety in my mind, it is more a reaction to the fact that I constantly have a hard time breathing, tingling sensation in my fingers and horrible food to stomach pains. Anyways, I have been on the Sobril pills for 7 days and Citalopram for six days (half a pill each morning). Now, I can't say I feel any different except for the first four hours of the day I really feel fine. But, half an hour to one hour after eating lunch my "feeling" arise and I feel really ill and having anxiety / panic. About an hour or two after taking the second sobril of the day all is fine.
Almost everywhere I read I get contradictory information and I hope you could perhaps shed some light for this whole situation.
I really don't know the reason for me getting my Panic Attacks although after some investigation I think I know what happened.
To the questions (Sorry for this being a long one... but you know....)
I was really active in training myself as part of a promise I made to myself that I would quit smoking, start training and begin to learn how to eat properly. The 16'th of february 2000 I quit smoking (and haven't smoked since) joined a gym, talked to a food advisor. Started to train slowly and increased the training to an almost rediculous level. Today I know almost all there is to know about food, training and being "healty". The problem for me was that no matter how hard I trained and held an exact diet nothing really happened. I didn't loose the extra body fat, I didn't grow any real muscular mass (a bit but not as much as I expected) and was a bit depressed by the whole situation, not as depressed as I would quit but I felt something must be wrong. After four years of intence training I just stopped, thought I should pause over the winter and then be smart about it and be even more accurate with my training as soon as the spring / summer was around the corner. Take a new step and really be carefull and make sure to reach my training goals (I trained both muscular and cardio vascular training atleast five days a week).
About four months after I had quit training I got my first serious Panic Attack and I must mention I also had an episode with I girl I have known for a long time that I was really anxious to, finally, be sexually engaged with (needless to say I couldn't perform). After these two events I got my first Attack. Now, I don't know if the combination of those could be the reason but I quess it is.
My mother talked to a training expert n the army who stated it is not all that uncommon that athletes who stop training do get anxiety / panic attacks shortly after and that my abscence of training really could be a reason.
Do you know if it is that common that stopping training could result in a panic / anxiety attack or disorder?
Would me starting training again perhaps help me getting rid of the symptoms and perhaps even beat the disorder?
The medicinal stuff really bothers me. I have never tried any drugs apart from an occational beer and cigarette and I don't ever use pills for headaches or anything else. I don't feel comfortable taking these pills especially since I learned I maby will have to take them for the rest of my life.
The most important questions is if most of "us" who do take Citalopram can kick them after the period we need to take them?
And perhaps a