Jules31
24-10-05, 12:09
This post may sound dismal but I've been awake virutally all night with symptom after symptom and I'm at the stage where I can't be rational so really do need a little help. And I apologise for the way it might read
At the moment, I'm feeling terrible all the time. The days are bad but the nights unbearable. It's not that i can't sleep, just my symptoms won't let me. It is now night after night after night and everynight it's different.
Here's a summary of the last few nights
fri - Went to bed with bloated tummy and constantly burping, woke after hour with night terror. Got back in bed, went to sleep, ten mins later, sudden feeling in left side of head (as though something rushed through it or whooshed) woke me. It was like a surge which went down the whole left side of my body. I couldn't feel my left arm, leg, side or cheek properly. I Though when Dave pinched me it hurt. I was convinced I'd had a stroke. My mouth was burning. When I stood my leg held me up but felt like it wasn't there. I felt dizzy and spiralled into a complete attack. It lasted for at least an hour and a half.
All day Sat, my arm, leg, cheek, felt stiff and achey and I just didn't feel myslef and kept having hot sweats.
Sat night - woke after 2 hours sleep with trapped air in chest and under diaphragm. Constant burping but none of it moved the wind. Was so bad felt like I couldn't breathe. As I tried to sleep, got burning and tingling above my lip and in my mouth and across my shoulders.
Yesterday - all day, full of trapped air, heartburn and dizziness. Also burning in top of tummy whenever I ate. Burning in mouth and lips too.
Last night - after hour of sleep woke with mouth and throat on fire, burning lips and sore tongue.Chemical surge under scalp and across shoulders. Jolted awake with it and a feeling that my breathing had stopped. Spiralled into a panic attack but calmed it down after 20 mins or so. But still had all the original symptoms that had woken me.
Tried to sleep but then for the next six hours, approx, every half hour, everytime,I dropped off, I woke with a strange head sensation, that I cant really put into words, other than it was like something being triggered in my head and made me wonder if I was dying. Then I got the chemical surge again and burning, so it was circle after circle
By 3.30 I got up and took a valium but it didn't help at all. So of course I'm thinking it can' t be anxiety or else it would have calmed things down.
Now I still have trapped air in my tummy and when I eat it burns. I've tried peppermint tea and gaviscon over the last week or so but nothing seems to help. My tummy even hurts to touch some of the time. This I could deal with, just about if not for the neuro stuff.
My lips and tongue feel burnt all the time. Guys what do you think. Does it sound like anxiety?
I've had to take my last emergency diazepam today and can't say it's helped much. I can't tlake this much more. I've made it into the office but am not particularly much use.
It feels very different to what I've been used to apart from the trapped wind which has bene getting worse over the last few months.
I can't believe I'm so scared again. I'm doing all the right things, eating, relaxing etc but none of it seems to be helping.
Jules
Jules
At the moment, I'm feeling terrible all the time. The days are bad but the nights unbearable. It's not that i can't sleep, just my symptoms won't let me. It is now night after night after night and everynight it's different.
Here's a summary of the last few nights
fri - Went to bed with bloated tummy and constantly burping, woke after hour with night terror. Got back in bed, went to sleep, ten mins later, sudden feeling in left side of head (as though something rushed through it or whooshed) woke me. It was like a surge which went down the whole left side of my body. I couldn't feel my left arm, leg, side or cheek properly. I Though when Dave pinched me it hurt. I was convinced I'd had a stroke. My mouth was burning. When I stood my leg held me up but felt like it wasn't there. I felt dizzy and spiralled into a complete attack. It lasted for at least an hour and a half.
All day Sat, my arm, leg, cheek, felt stiff and achey and I just didn't feel myslef and kept having hot sweats.
Sat night - woke after 2 hours sleep with trapped air in chest and under diaphragm. Constant burping but none of it moved the wind. Was so bad felt like I couldn't breathe. As I tried to sleep, got burning and tingling above my lip and in my mouth and across my shoulders.
Yesterday - all day, full of trapped air, heartburn and dizziness. Also burning in top of tummy whenever I ate. Burning in mouth and lips too.
Last night - after hour of sleep woke with mouth and throat on fire, burning lips and sore tongue.Chemical surge under scalp and across shoulders. Jolted awake with it and a feeling that my breathing had stopped. Spiralled into a panic attack but calmed it down after 20 mins or so. But still had all the original symptoms that had woken me.
Tried to sleep but then for the next six hours, approx, every half hour, everytime,I dropped off, I woke with a strange head sensation, that I cant really put into words, other than it was like something being triggered in my head and made me wonder if I was dying. Then I got the chemical surge again and burning, so it was circle after circle
By 3.30 I got up and took a valium but it didn't help at all. So of course I'm thinking it can' t be anxiety or else it would have calmed things down.
Now I still have trapped air in my tummy and when I eat it burns. I've tried peppermint tea and gaviscon over the last week or so but nothing seems to help. My tummy even hurts to touch some of the time. This I could deal with, just about if not for the neuro stuff.
My lips and tongue feel burnt all the time. Guys what do you think. Does it sound like anxiety?
I've had to take my last emergency diazepam today and can't say it's helped much. I can't tlake this much more. I've made it into the office but am not particularly much use.
It feels very different to what I've been used to apart from the trapped wind which has bene getting worse over the last few months.
I can't believe I'm so scared again. I'm doing all the right things, eating, relaxing etc but none of it seems to be helping.
Jules
Jules