IllegallyBlond
30-04-09, 06:14
Hello everyone! I'm so happy I came across this site. I am a anxiety attack sufferer, and I absolutely hate it. I was reading the home page under health worries, and was thinking that is totally me. I'm always thinking something as small as a headache is an aneurysm, or cramping in my legs is a blood clot. It seems like I think all the time, and make a mountain out of a mole hill. Recently I went to the doctor, because I've been having horrible headaches, and my vision was getting blurry. I also noticed that my pupil in my left eye was slightly larger than my right. Automatically, I think aneurysm, or brain tumor. Well the doctor looked at my eye and told me to go to an eye doctor because my pupil was working normally, just a little bigger than the other. Well today was that appointment, and come to find out, I've had a bigger pupil in my left eye since I was a baby. He told me to go home, and look at older photo's and see if it was like that, and sure enough it was. I felt like a dummy. I try to keep myself from thinking to much into things, but I can't seem to shut it off.
With my anxiety I also don't like to take med's. I always read the side effects and think I'd rather deal with the other. My doctor recently gave me klonopin to take when the first signs of a panic attack comes on. Well, that hasn't happened because the thought of taking the med's make my anxiety worse. My husband don't understand that. He asks if you know it will make whatever you are feeling go away, what's the problem? The problem is my fear is so overwhelming over something happening to me if I take this pill, and I know the panic attack will go away. He's probably starting to think I'm crazy. Anyway, enough with the rambling. I'm very excited to meet other people who suffer from the same things I do. If anyone at all can tell me how klonopin has effected them, it would be greatly appreciated. Maybe I can get the nerve up to take it. :)
With my anxiety I also don't like to take med's. I always read the side effects and think I'd rather deal with the other. My doctor recently gave me klonopin to take when the first signs of a panic attack comes on. Well, that hasn't happened because the thought of taking the med's make my anxiety worse. My husband don't understand that. He asks if you know it will make whatever you are feeling go away, what's the problem? The problem is my fear is so overwhelming over something happening to me if I take this pill, and I know the panic attack will go away. He's probably starting to think I'm crazy. Anyway, enough with the rambling. I'm very excited to meet other people who suffer from the same things I do. If anyone at all can tell me how klonopin has effected them, it would be greatly appreciated. Maybe I can get the nerve up to take it. :)