steve71
22-01-11, 09:46
Hi. I have recently been diagnosed as suffering from anxiety and panic attacks and was during a sleepless night last night that I stumbled upon this website as my "numb cheek" was the focus of my thoughts and the fire behind what I knew would be another attack.
I prolapsed a disc on my back in august last year and was after an mri that it was seen how bad it was. This then gave me strange feeling in my leg asthe sciatic nerve had been crushed for so long. Then my wife went in for an operation where in the recovery room I conveniently had my first mild attack which really was good timing. Plagued me for weeks after that I wasn't there for her. Then the week before Christmas my father ends up in kings hospital having brain surgery on a condition called trigemeral neuralgia. Which is a condition which involves the nerve in your fact ring on pain constantly. To top it all during this mad Christmas I am changing jobs where my old employer has made it clear they are not impressed and have made my leaving unpleasant. So I then end up Christmas feeling out of body, feeling the numbness in my face as some pending doom. This then spreads across my head and on boxing day I end up in a@e where i'm given a leaflet on hyper ventilating. This is followed by another a@e event an ecg, blood test and another a@e where a male nurse who had experienced this condition and phoned my surgery and made my surgery book me an appointment for counselling and here I am now. Two sessions in I am starting to come to terms with my condition but still have difficulties at night and trying to shut my brain off at night. Hence last night and finding this site and the help I've gleaned from it in one night! Thank you. Cbt has been started but i'm still focussing on the conditions too much but i have been told this should ease and possibly soon as I was
diagnosed by that fabulous nurse in a@e so soon and guided in the right direction.
I prolapsed a disc on my back in august last year and was after an mri that it was seen how bad it was. This then gave me strange feeling in my leg asthe sciatic nerve had been crushed for so long. Then my wife went in for an operation where in the recovery room I conveniently had my first mild attack which really was good timing. Plagued me for weeks after that I wasn't there for her. Then the week before Christmas my father ends up in kings hospital having brain surgery on a condition called trigemeral neuralgia. Which is a condition which involves the nerve in your fact ring on pain constantly. To top it all during this mad Christmas I am changing jobs where my old employer has made it clear they are not impressed and have made my leaving unpleasant. So I then end up Christmas feeling out of body, feeling the numbness in my face as some pending doom. This then spreads across my head and on boxing day I end up in a@e where i'm given a leaflet on hyper ventilating. This is followed by another a@e event an ecg, blood test and another a@e where a male nurse who had experienced this condition and phoned my surgery and made my surgery book me an appointment for counselling and here I am now. Two sessions in I am starting to come to terms with my condition but still have difficulties at night and trying to shut my brain off at night. Hence last night and finding this site and the help I've gleaned from it in one night! Thank you. Cbt has been started but i'm still focussing on the conditions too much but i have been told this should ease and possibly soon as I was
diagnosed by that fabulous nurse in a@e so soon and guided in the right direction.