Lauz
14-01-10, 05:12
I have only been recently diagnosed with anxiety and panic attacks. I was only suffering from them for around 3 – 4 weeks before I went to the doc. They were so sever and so scary I had no idea what was going on.
The long and the short is as a result of compounded stresses in my life that I haven’t dealt with, well at least at the time I felt like I was dealing great but obviously not. As a result of an injury just over a month ago (neck and back which was causing pain and headaches) all of this just came out.
Since being diagnosed I have been on medication, Pristiq. Which at first made me worse, any side effect of that drug you name it I got it. From dizziness, nausea, dry mouth, head aches to insomnia.
I have now been on the meds for 4 weeks and am feeling much better, the anxiety feeling has stopped and the panic attacks too! YAY. Yet I do find myself having glitches. Now I can feel my brain thinking rationally and I can feel when it decides to be a pain and switch to thinking irrationally which I think is a good thing to be able to determine that now.
Along with meds I am seeing someone to help me, which has been really useful. Just talking about it all puts me at ease.
So the road has been rocky but it looks bright.
The one thing that is causing issues it that my neck is still quite stiff and the headaches are still around, not as full on as before but still there.
I can put it down to still being stressed which results in all of this, or perhaps the medication I am not sure. Yet this seems to be the lasting physical symptoms that I am having these days that I can’t move on from and it feels like it is holding me back.
Look forward to chatting and any advice!
Thanks, Lauz
:)
The long and the short is as a result of compounded stresses in my life that I haven’t dealt with, well at least at the time I felt like I was dealing great but obviously not. As a result of an injury just over a month ago (neck and back which was causing pain and headaches) all of this just came out.
Since being diagnosed I have been on medication, Pristiq. Which at first made me worse, any side effect of that drug you name it I got it. From dizziness, nausea, dry mouth, head aches to insomnia.
I have now been on the meds for 4 weeks and am feeling much better, the anxiety feeling has stopped and the panic attacks too! YAY. Yet I do find myself having glitches. Now I can feel my brain thinking rationally and I can feel when it decides to be a pain and switch to thinking irrationally which I think is a good thing to be able to determine that now.
Along with meds I am seeing someone to help me, which has been really useful. Just talking about it all puts me at ease.
So the road has been rocky but it looks bright.
The one thing that is causing issues it that my neck is still quite stiff and the headaches are still around, not as full on as before but still there.
I can put it down to still being stressed which results in all of this, or perhaps the medication I am not sure. Yet this seems to be the lasting physical symptoms that I am having these days that I can’t move on from and it feels like it is holding me back.
Look forward to chatting and any advice!
Thanks, Lauz
:)