Sambapati85
19-10-09, 23:29
Lightheaded all day everyday
Hello everyone, i just registered to this site after lurking around here for a while. I am a 23 year old male 145 lbs 5"10, vegetarian , eat fairly healthy, don't drink, but i do smoke ( cut down to about 5 and under a day). Recently in the past 12 days i quit completely. take multivitamin daily, fish oil, veggie and fruit supplements and do cardio 4 times a week 25 minutes a day . I am a worrier, i worry about alot, paranoid that people are looking at me, stress about so many things i am very self conscious.
on feb 14 saturday i experienced my first attack , i was loking for my brothers ex girlfriends cat that was missing n my house, for about an hour, i also just recently started school, my parents were out of town , my brother was out of town soo i was 100% alone.i was watching a movie smoking some marijuana when i got m first attack, felt like i was having a heart attack, had to get out of my house ASAP, picked up the p[hone was going to call 911. I was finally able to clam down and passout. It wasn't a weed freakout either i have had those , and this was different.
I went to 2 different doctors both took blood pressure , heart rate said it was good. Got blood tests and an EKG last month, everything came back clear/normal. i also recently saw a family physchiatrist from previous incidents, and he assured me it was anxiety panic.
5 weeks later i am still lightheaded all day everyday, i can't even handle this s**t anymore i keep thinking its my heart, or something else. I find that i am very emotional cry alot, get extremely angry punch walls. My phych said that is is anxiety and panic, and that he has experienced about 50 people with exact same symptoms. I still think it is a physical illness no matter what, i am always monitoring my heart rate, get pains in my left side , some arm pains. The wierd thing is if i am hanging out with my girlfriend , it seems to go away not entirely but i feel much better, but when i am alone, this is when it really starts to kick in.
Prior to a month ago, i hadn't gone out of out the house besides going to work in 2 years, no friends, no nothing , smoking pot all weekend long, watching movies video games , doing nothing. This is by far the scariest 5 week experience i have ever encountered and i just want to be normal again, i would rather die than go on with this f**king ailment.
UPDATE*****
I was doing good for months , my mind was generally off the health issue since june. I was having bloody stool , an HIV scare and other anxiety triggers. Since june my bloody stool has stopped , i have gotten a job and be doing good , the lightheadedness and derealization has been slowly slipping away. Finally after since having it since feburary 09 :( . Last night however i was watching a movie with my girlfriend and BAMM a panic attack .. i knew what it was but i hadn't felt one this powerful for months, feeling as if i was dying and freaking out. Pretty much what it feels when you smoke alot of weed and have a weed freakout. NOW what happened... what triggered this ..the only thing that changed in the past week was i start4ed having about 3 beers a day after work.. not sure if this was the cause but today my derealization/lightheadedness has kicked in again and now im back to where i was many months ago !!.... this is bullshit... how can i overcome this .. and how long will it last this time? im soo sick of feeling .. i don't know if i can fight this feeling anymore. I havent had a cigarette in 8 months , i haven't smoked pot in 8 months , i have been really healthy.. is this a medicalissue? or is this my ****ed up mind again ( pardon my language) im just soo frustrated with this garbage.. I would just like to know if any of you have had a similar problem and will this feeling only last a few days because i have already gone through it for a long period of time? i just want to be normal again
i am sorry for the lengthy post and those of you who have made it through my ranting .. thank you soo much for your time and concern. and any help you can give a lonesome warrior of panic and anxiety.
Hello everyone, i just registered to this site after lurking around here for a while. I am a 23 year old male 145 lbs 5"10, vegetarian , eat fairly healthy, don't drink, but i do smoke ( cut down to about 5 and under a day). Recently in the past 12 days i quit completely. take multivitamin daily, fish oil, veggie and fruit supplements and do cardio 4 times a week 25 minutes a day . I am a worrier, i worry about alot, paranoid that people are looking at me, stress about so many things i am very self conscious.
on feb 14 saturday i experienced my first attack , i was loking for my brothers ex girlfriends cat that was missing n my house, for about an hour, i also just recently started school, my parents were out of town , my brother was out of town soo i was 100% alone.i was watching a movie smoking some marijuana when i got m first attack, felt like i was having a heart attack, had to get out of my house ASAP, picked up the p[hone was going to call 911. I was finally able to clam down and passout. It wasn't a weed freakout either i have had those , and this was different.
I went to 2 different doctors both took blood pressure , heart rate said it was good. Got blood tests and an EKG last month, everything came back clear/normal. i also recently saw a family physchiatrist from previous incidents, and he assured me it was anxiety panic.
5 weeks later i am still lightheaded all day everyday, i can't even handle this s**t anymore i keep thinking its my heart, or something else. I find that i am very emotional cry alot, get extremely angry punch walls. My phych said that is is anxiety and panic, and that he has experienced about 50 people with exact same symptoms. I still think it is a physical illness no matter what, i am always monitoring my heart rate, get pains in my left side , some arm pains. The wierd thing is if i am hanging out with my girlfriend , it seems to go away not entirely but i feel much better, but when i am alone, this is when it really starts to kick in.
Prior to a month ago, i hadn't gone out of out the house besides going to work in 2 years, no friends, no nothing , smoking pot all weekend long, watching movies video games , doing nothing. This is by far the scariest 5 week experience i have ever encountered and i just want to be normal again, i would rather die than go on with this f**king ailment.
UPDATE*****
I was doing good for months , my mind was generally off the health issue since june. I was having bloody stool , an HIV scare and other anxiety triggers. Since june my bloody stool has stopped , i have gotten a job and be doing good , the lightheadedness and derealization has been slowly slipping away. Finally after since having it since feburary 09 :( . Last night however i was watching a movie with my girlfriend and BAMM a panic attack .. i knew what it was but i hadn't felt one this powerful for months, feeling as if i was dying and freaking out. Pretty much what it feels when you smoke alot of weed and have a weed freakout. NOW what happened... what triggered this ..the only thing that changed in the past week was i start4ed having about 3 beers a day after work.. not sure if this was the cause but today my derealization/lightheadedness has kicked in again and now im back to where i was many months ago !!.... this is bullshit... how can i overcome this .. and how long will it last this time? im soo sick of feeling .. i don't know if i can fight this feeling anymore. I havent had a cigarette in 8 months , i haven't smoked pot in 8 months , i have been really healthy.. is this a medicalissue? or is this my ****ed up mind again ( pardon my language) im just soo frustrated with this garbage.. I would just like to know if any of you have had a similar problem and will this feeling only last a few days because i have already gone through it for a long period of time? i just want to be normal again
i am sorry for the lengthy post and those of you who have made it through my ranting .. thank you soo much for your time and concern. and any help you can give a lonesome warrior of panic and anxiety.