BB MACK
18-09-09, 03:44
Hi there,
I'm new here and have been lurking around beforehand. I have suffered from anxiety for over 6 months now. It started in March. I was walking home from work and I began to feel dizzy and lightheaded. Never thought anything of it. Then a few days later I kept jolting awake in the middle of the night. It began to frighten me... then one nigt I bolted out of my bed and my first panic attack happened. I thought I was dying. Usual symptoms... shakes, numbness, felt like I was going to faint.
Over the weeks I became so scared I withdrew into myself. Then the anxiety symptoms came... muscles tightening especially in my neck and back. Vision changes - floaters, sparks in vision, feeling sick, dry mouth...
The doctor put me on Halfinderal and it was helping me but also made other things worse... dizziness, feeling sick.... so I came off them. Currently I am doing a CBT course called Beat The Blues every week. I have got two weeks left. It has helped somewhat.
I have be so paranoid I have went for a diabeties test and an eye check up... both were fine and perfect.
Although I am getting better everyday the three things that bother me the most... is loss of sex drive, shakes all over my body and the one that is bothering me the most is my eyes... I can ignore the floaters most of the time but when I look up in the sky I see constant white sparks... the thing is I have felt like this for so long I have forgotten what it was like beforehand.
Has anyone else experienced the sparks. Although I have had my eyes checked out I still feel wound up about it.
Thanks for your time.
I'm new here and have been lurking around beforehand. I have suffered from anxiety for over 6 months now. It started in March. I was walking home from work and I began to feel dizzy and lightheaded. Never thought anything of it. Then a few days later I kept jolting awake in the middle of the night. It began to frighten me... then one nigt I bolted out of my bed and my first panic attack happened. I thought I was dying. Usual symptoms... shakes, numbness, felt like I was going to faint.
Over the weeks I became so scared I withdrew into myself. Then the anxiety symptoms came... muscles tightening especially in my neck and back. Vision changes - floaters, sparks in vision, feeling sick, dry mouth...
The doctor put me on Halfinderal and it was helping me but also made other things worse... dizziness, feeling sick.... so I came off them. Currently I am doing a CBT course called Beat The Blues every week. I have got two weeks left. It has helped somewhat.
I have be so paranoid I have went for a diabeties test and an eye check up... both were fine and perfect.
Although I am getting better everyday the three things that bother me the most... is loss of sex drive, shakes all over my body and the one that is bothering me the most is my eyes... I can ignore the floaters most of the time but when I look up in the sky I see constant white sparks... the thing is I have felt like this for so long I have forgotten what it was like beforehand.
Has anyone else experienced the sparks. Although I have had my eyes checked out I still feel wound up about it.
Thanks for your time.