moonlightlady
24-01-09, 05:40
Hi, I am new here as of just a few moments ago. I am very glad I found this site! I'm really not sure what's wrong with me right now, but here goes....
Since I was in my early 20's I've had anxiety problems, and panic attacks.
I've had 3 kids, and been married 32 years, and am right now dealing with perimenopause as well! Now, that alone, brings on INSANE symptoms!
However, the other night, when my husband and I came home, I was standing by the couch, and suddenly without any warning, my legs just gave out, like they weren't even there, and i sort of collapsed onto the couch, and held my arms out in front of me to sort of hold me upright, and it felt like my brain was vibrating, and I was going to pass out, I also had those dark circles around the eyes, like donuts, which is a sign of getting ready to faint. I sat there on the couch like this , for about maybe, 30 seconds or so, which doesn't sound like a long time, but when you're brain feels as if it's REALLY vibrating, it feels like forever. I was struggling to stay conscious, and not pass out. My husband had gone upstairs, so he didn't even notice. When this "episode" was over, I jumped up, to test my legs and they were ok, and all I could do, was pace back and forth fast, and see if I could speak,(which I could), .... I felt slightly off balance, and VERY detached and panicky, obviously.
Now, as of about 2 weeks ago, we started to have a SMALL exhaust leak in our car, in the engine in the front of the car. But we took it to our mechanic, who has us penciled in to have it fixed in a week, but he listened to it, and said he DID smell exhaust, but that with our car, the exhaust CAN NOT get into the inside of the car, and even if it did, it would be so darn minimul there wouldn't be any harm from carbon monoxide.....and that if I felt weird, to just open a window, until this is fixed. Now this guy, is good! He's been in business for many years. He "knows" our car. Well, to be honest, while we were there, I began to feel really panicky, and whacked out, and tired. So, then, i began to think....carbon monoxide! His place is only a few min.s from our house, so we drove right home. When we got home, this little "episode" happened. I called a friend of mine, who is a nurse, and she said, it could be the carbon monoxide, OR a severe panic attack! WOW! I didn't know it could do THAT! I have a dr.s appt. now set up for 2 weeks from today, but I would like to know, if anyone else has had anything like this. She went onto describe, how the central nervous system works, and the vagus nerve, and EVERYTHING! She seems to think it's the vagus nerve, due to the insane amount of stress we've been under latley, since my husb. was laid off! Yes, I have been very very worried, and am taking xanax presently, as needed.
Now that was yesterday. I had a really bad nights "sleep" if you can even call it that. Crazy weird dreams......I even had three seperate incidents, where, I knew I was AWAKE, and yet, i felt the covers being sort of pulled of of me, from my legs ... as if someone were pulling the covers off me,and I could feel the covers being pulled downwards, towards my legs. I laid there, frozen in fear.! I finally got the nerve to "look" and it was nothing!
OK, so I decided to try to go back to bed. Well, within about 3 or 4 minutes, it began again! I KNOW i was awake, darn it! Again, i froze in fear. Again, I got the nerve to finally open my eyes, and nothing! Covers were fine, and my husb. was snoring away. Then, i decided, to try it again, determined to go back to sleep! Yep.....once again, here we go!
Now, i was mad, and scared! This all happned, by the way, while i was laying on my right side....NOT my left side, or my back. I was able to finally fall back to sleep! Can anyone please tell me what the heck that was? MY friend, who is the nurse, said that was nerves! She said my nerve endings may have been affected by the carbon monoxide, OR the SEVERE panic attack. (I should include here, that, after that "collapse" episode, I could speak normally, but NERVOUSLY and kind of stumbling over my words until I stopped and said it again slowly..........but, I flew into this crazy wild panic attack! I felt like I was "dying", which I know is common for panic.........i wanted to run around outside and scream and just keep running. My husband had to sort of grab me, and tell me it was ok, and i'd be fine.....i was crying by this time) .....
I know this is a very long post,...sorry about that, but i wanted to really explain this. I am so darn scared.....today, for most of the day, I still felt VERY DETACHED and weird, and not myself..........my speech today is better, but for the early part of hte day, my speech was still very fast and nervous. I had NO HEADACHE, but i do feel nauseas. UGH! this is to much! Yes, I am under TERRIBLE stress latley, in reality, i've been under SEVERE stress for years now.........
Thank you everyone for any help you can give me.....I need encouragement and suppor right now!
Sincerely, moonlightlady
Since I was in my early 20's I've had anxiety problems, and panic attacks.
I've had 3 kids, and been married 32 years, and am right now dealing with perimenopause as well! Now, that alone, brings on INSANE symptoms!
However, the other night, when my husband and I came home, I was standing by the couch, and suddenly without any warning, my legs just gave out, like they weren't even there, and i sort of collapsed onto the couch, and held my arms out in front of me to sort of hold me upright, and it felt like my brain was vibrating, and I was going to pass out, I also had those dark circles around the eyes, like donuts, which is a sign of getting ready to faint. I sat there on the couch like this , for about maybe, 30 seconds or so, which doesn't sound like a long time, but when you're brain feels as if it's REALLY vibrating, it feels like forever. I was struggling to stay conscious, and not pass out. My husband had gone upstairs, so he didn't even notice. When this "episode" was over, I jumped up, to test my legs and they were ok, and all I could do, was pace back and forth fast, and see if I could speak,(which I could), .... I felt slightly off balance, and VERY detached and panicky, obviously.
Now, as of about 2 weeks ago, we started to have a SMALL exhaust leak in our car, in the engine in the front of the car. But we took it to our mechanic, who has us penciled in to have it fixed in a week, but he listened to it, and said he DID smell exhaust, but that with our car, the exhaust CAN NOT get into the inside of the car, and even if it did, it would be so darn minimul there wouldn't be any harm from carbon monoxide.....and that if I felt weird, to just open a window, until this is fixed. Now this guy, is good! He's been in business for many years. He "knows" our car. Well, to be honest, while we were there, I began to feel really panicky, and whacked out, and tired. So, then, i began to think....carbon monoxide! His place is only a few min.s from our house, so we drove right home. When we got home, this little "episode" happened. I called a friend of mine, who is a nurse, and she said, it could be the carbon monoxide, OR a severe panic attack! WOW! I didn't know it could do THAT! I have a dr.s appt. now set up for 2 weeks from today, but I would like to know, if anyone else has had anything like this. She went onto describe, how the central nervous system works, and the vagus nerve, and EVERYTHING! She seems to think it's the vagus nerve, due to the insane amount of stress we've been under latley, since my husb. was laid off! Yes, I have been very very worried, and am taking xanax presently, as needed.
Now that was yesterday. I had a really bad nights "sleep" if you can even call it that. Crazy weird dreams......I even had three seperate incidents, where, I knew I was AWAKE, and yet, i felt the covers being sort of pulled of of me, from my legs ... as if someone were pulling the covers off me,and I could feel the covers being pulled downwards, towards my legs. I laid there, frozen in fear.! I finally got the nerve to "look" and it was nothing!
OK, so I decided to try to go back to bed. Well, within about 3 or 4 minutes, it began again! I KNOW i was awake, darn it! Again, i froze in fear. Again, I got the nerve to finally open my eyes, and nothing! Covers were fine, and my husb. was snoring away. Then, i decided, to try it again, determined to go back to sleep! Yep.....once again, here we go!
Now, i was mad, and scared! This all happned, by the way, while i was laying on my right side....NOT my left side, or my back. I was able to finally fall back to sleep! Can anyone please tell me what the heck that was? MY friend, who is the nurse, said that was nerves! She said my nerve endings may have been affected by the carbon monoxide, OR the SEVERE panic attack. (I should include here, that, after that "collapse" episode, I could speak normally, but NERVOUSLY and kind of stumbling over my words until I stopped and said it again slowly..........but, I flew into this crazy wild panic attack! I felt like I was "dying", which I know is common for panic.........i wanted to run around outside and scream and just keep running. My husband had to sort of grab me, and tell me it was ok, and i'd be fine.....i was crying by this time) .....
I know this is a very long post,...sorry about that, but i wanted to really explain this. I am so darn scared.....today, for most of the day, I still felt VERY DETACHED and weird, and not myself..........my speech today is better, but for the early part of hte day, my speech was still very fast and nervous. I had NO HEADACHE, but i do feel nauseas. UGH! this is to much! Yes, I am under TERRIBLE stress latley, in reality, i've been under SEVERE stress for years now.........
Thank you everyone for any help you can give me.....I need encouragement and suppor right now!
Sincerely, moonlightlady