Panic Attack Treatment with Xanax

Panic attack is state or an episode of intensive and unrealistic fear that caused suddenly with no apparent reason. The symptoms of panic attack which are usually trembling, heavy breathing, heart palpitations, chest pain, sweating, nausea, dizziness,

Hyperventilation can up to 30 minutes. Some can have a panic attack for only a few seconds and some can have a few episodes of 30 minutes in row causing the panic attack to last a few hours.

The most effective and useful treatment of panic attacks is a c combination of cognitive therapy along with taking xanax.  Xanax, also known as alprazolam, is a short-acting benzodiazepine primarily used to treat anxiety disorders and depression

Xanax was approved by the FDA in 1981 for the treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic Disorder with or without agoraphobia, and anxiety associated with depression (but not indicated for the treatment of depression alone).

The quick acting nature of xanax makes it an ideal medication to take immediately before panic-provoking events. It takes about 15 to 20 minutes until you feel its anxiety-reducing benefits

Xanax block panic attacks quicker than the antidepressants, often in a week or two. They also tend to have fewer side effects than the antidepressants. However, although xanax can be very efficient and eliminate the symptoms it does not manage the problem and its real reasons in the long term. Thus, it is very important to combine the medicine treatment along with psychological treatment to understand the roots of this problem and get rid of it permanently.

Also, it is important to know that while Long-term use of xanax may lead to physical and/or psychological dependence. Patients often develop a tolerance to the drug’s sedative effects. However, tolerance to the anxiolytic effects is rare when used at proper dosage levels.

I am having trouble dealing with my husband who gets extrememly motion sick in the car just riding or driving on the interstate. We went to a movie the other night and he said it made him sick to watch it, the lisghts movinf and the noise. He can’t sit in the stands at my son’s football games, just 10 ft off the ground. Is there anyone else out there suffering from this? His doctor is treating him for an earinfection now and says he has some fluid in there. THe next step is an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist. I thinkit is more psycological and it is anxiety attacks?

i am calling tomorrow to make an appointment with a new doctor that has been recommended to me more than once. i struggle with anxiety attacks on a daily basis, and i have major trouble falling asleep, and staying asleep at night. i am just wondering if any of you have had similar issues, and i know when it comes to medications, you have to go through the trial and error process before you get it just right, but if any of you out there can suggest the best medications to help with my problems, i would greatly appreciate that so i can discuss medications with my doctor. i have tried xanax and ambien, xanax worked good. ambien got me to sleep quick but i would wake up periodically throughout the night and have to take another. i just tried trazadone for the first time so we’ll see how that works…. but i guess my main question is…. what would you recommend i ask my doctor to prescribe me for the anxiety and insomnia???? i need some good stuff that works, because these issues are starting to interfere with my daily activities and they are depressing the relationships i have with friends and family. i want to get better, not worse, and i damn sure dont want to end up in a hospital. any suggestions are appreciated.

My mother in law is 78 years old. She has been treated for depression for many years + gone through ECT treatments. What do you think of this combo? She seems to be in physical pain all the time although her vitals are fine. She is going through some major anxiety attacks. Any thoughts?

i want to sart to take bach remedies, i am totally stressed out! and i think i get anxiety attacks! which ones are best to treat these? i want to be more calm! i have rescue remedy spray which i spray once everyday on to my tongue!
1 more thing i dont know how to take these remedies? oraly i put 4 drops under my tongue is best ? or 4 drops in little water and i drink it? and how many times per day should i do that? Thanks and god bless you

I have a friend in her late 20s who has been sick for about a year now. Lots of physical pain. Migraines, headaches, sinus pain. Nerve pain in her neck, up the arms, hands, and wrists. Digestive pain and intermittent constipation. Dry mouth, dry skin. Heat surges that make her want to tear off her skin. Extreme food sensitivities. Extreme fatigue – she spent a good portion of the last year completely immobilized. Lately, lots of dizziness and several fainting spells. Confusion and memory loss. And profound emotional angst – anxiety attacks, rage, bouts of terror. More and more, she calls me in tears and I’m beginning to worry about her sanity. She’s literally starting to sound crazy to me.

She went to a few doctors, and they couldn’t find anything. So she’s been seeing some practicioners of alternative medicine. They think she picked up a parasite in Thailand, and are treating her with herbs and other hokey stuff. I’ve tried not to butt in, but I’m growing increasingly concerned.

First off, please do not tell me to go to the doctor. I do not have much money and am trying to get an idea of what may be wrong before I go. For the past couple of months I have been having tightness in my chest.. But it is only on one side.. If you were facing me, it is on the left side. Right below my collar bone. A few months ago, it was swollen to the point you could barely see my collar bone. I went to the clinic and was treated for anxiety attacks. I was given 2 medications to help calm when something is stressing me out. However, this is continuing to happen. It hurts to lay on that side and feels really tight. It hurts to take a deep breath. What could it be? Thanks
It is tender when you touch that area, but you can not feel a lump or anything that could be "attached" .. It feels like the other side, except it hurts!

Having a lot of physical & mental problems since last October. I’m being treated for GERD but my mental state started going down around the same time as my gerd symptoms showed up so one may have caused the other. I’m a single mother with two small children and I live in a city with no family or friends. I started having anxiety attacks at night with hands/legs shaking and an overwhelming sense of fear that my body is going to give out and I’m going to die. These attacks happen like once a month but these waves of fear that something is going to happen a lot. In my day to day I try to forget about my worries at work but when I’m with the kids or even by myself I sometimes feel like my life is not a real life. It’s hard to explain but I don’t know how to be happy with my life and raising my kids alone.

As a kid I remember having waves of fear sometimes and not being able to fall asleep even when nothing was really on my mind. Could I have always had a problem and not known it?
I returned from a plane trip last night and I freaked out on the plane. I wasn’t always nervous about flying but now I am. I sat down on the plane and I overheard the woman next to me saying on the phone to say a prayer for us since it was snowing where we were. I jumped up and told the flight attendant I wanted to get off. I was trembling and crying and she ended up taking 5 minutes to convince me that the plane was safe. For the rest of the flight, I had to pre-occupy myself by doing a crossword puzzle and not think about the fear. I’m worried this fear will get worse and worse with time and I’m too embarrased to talk about it with family or friends.

well first of all ill tell you what happened. i was sleeping and i woke up and heard a man, well like seven men but they were the same voice all whispering at once. then one was whispering louder than the other voices. i do know what it said but i dont want to say. and then i was trying to get them out of my head, i kept saying no you aren’t real shuttup and then my body felt like i was being restrained all over all i could do was breathe and my eyes were rollin back and my head ****** at a weird angle and the man screamed. but I could feel it. it was so real to me. i felt the man inside i head i felt his breathe i fought against the restraints it was real.

now my history…. im 14. almost 15. i have had a rough childhood and i hae to go to court often bc of my parents getting divorce and custody and all. my dad was…. well…. not good. my life was rough and i have been treated for anxiety attacks and depression. last week my father hurt me. and it was a whole big incident. i have always been a little detached from reality. but in a way that was just my personality… ive been hurt so many times i dont want to get close to someone just to get hurt again. but i am really scared now. i am thinking 1) it was a demon because of the sin in my life or 2) im going insane…. literally. im so scared. what do i do

well first of all ill tell you what happened. i was sleeping and i woke up and heard a man, well like seven men but they were the same voice all whispering at once. then one was whispering louder than the other voices. i do know what it said but i dont want to say. and then i was trying to get them out of my head, i kept saying no you aren’t real shuttup and then my body felt like i was being restrained all over all i could do was breathe and my eyes were rollin back and my head cocked at a weird angle and the man screamed. but I could feel it. it was so real to me. i felt the man inside i head i felt his breathe i fought against the restraints it was real.

now my history…. im 14. almost 15. i have had a rough childhood and i hae to go to court often bc of my parents getting divorce and custody and all. my dad was…. well…. not good. my life was rough and i have been treated for anxiety attacks and depression. last week my father hurt me. and it was a whole big incident. i have always been a little detached from reality. but in a way that was just my personality… ive been hurt so many times i dont want to get close to someone just to get hurt again. but i am really scared now. i am thinking 1) it was a demon because of the sin in my life or 2) im going insane…. literally. im so scared. what do i do

Ok so what is going on with me? I am 23 married and a mommy. I have been having anxiety attacks since I was 15 maybe even younger than that.

I am so scared when I am having one. I think I am literately dying. It is horrible. My heart rate goes up to about 170 when I am under attack. I am worried and I don’t know what to do. I am always thinking that something medically is wrong with me. I wake up and if I feel just a little sick then I will start to think I am dying. Why do I feel like this. I don’t want to be drugged up on medications but I don’t know how I am going to treat this.

I am so tired of living like this. I am worried and stressed about everything. When I am having one I am always scared I am dying. Even though I have had so many and I know what it is I always convince myself that I have a health issue. What can I do and where do I turn? I can’t keep on living like this:(

I suffer from OCD and depression. Will going on birth control make this worse or better? You see, my life has been a living hell: I graduated college last May in graphic design and have a job that’s only seasonal, I only work from April till November at Six Flags as an assistant manager doing airbrush art, so I’ve been stuck looking for a better paying job, full time in graphic design for the past three months when my current jobs closed for the winter. I’ve gotten to the interview stage in some instances, however, no luck. I even followed up and did just fine in the interviews, so that must make me a bad person for some odd reason since I didn’t get the jobs. I’m also starting my own biz with my friend. I still live at home with parents who help me out–but that makes me feel like a total loser since I still need help. I’ve been saving moneys like crazy. My college degree is a piece of sh*t, so I burnt it since I haven’t gotten my dream job yet.
So because of me being temporarily out of commission, my anxiety attacks have gotten worse–this is seriously having a negative impact on me and my boyfriend. My boyfriend complains to me cause I can’t slow down in life and have fun. Since I’m dating and we want to have sex in the near future, I’m going on the birth control pill. I’m on Lexapro antidepressant now and the people at planned parenthood said there shouldn’t be any interaction while taking the pill, but I’m still nervous that it won’t fully protect me against pregnancy cause I read in the pamphlet how it can lose effectiveness if taken with certain meds that are used to treat mental illness. I’m starting the pill this Sunday, so will it make my anxiety I’ve been having about my life worse, or will it actually help? I wonder if I’ll get mood swings? I’m sick of my boyfriend complaining to me about being a total nutcase, so I’m hoping that being on the birth control pill will actually benefit and reduce my anxiety symptoms?

Okay, for the past couple months or so I’ve been having panic attacks lasting anywhere from a minute to a couple days, it’s awful. I’m 14 years old and I struggle to get through school, because I have anxiety attacks most of the days I go. My symptoms are feeling out of reality, out of body feeling, dreamy feeling, lightheaded, dizziness, fear of it getting worse (sometimes), sometimes I shake (visibly), fear of losing control, unstableness, not there, weird, odd thoughts, tired, can’t get to sleep, mind is racing, headaches, aching body, loss of hunger/thirst (sometimes), there’s more, but that’s the major ones…. what can I do to treat this? I already went to like 5 doctors, they kept sending me to another doctor, and I’m on a waiting list now. Is this anxiety or something else? Please help, this is amazingly uncomfortable / annoying / unneeded. I want help…it’s interfering with my life, it sucks..

First off, I plan on going to the doctor, however, I’m a student and with my schedule and lack of money, it’s going to be a week or two before I can go. So, I’m just using this as a reference point.

I am an incredibly stressed, and anxious person. I have a ton going on in my life that places a huge burden on me. For the past five months, I’ve been getting what I assume are PVC’s (My mom has them, my dad has them, my sister gets them, I know it’s not an appropriate diagnosis though). Basically, I feel a "flop" in my chest, followed by a moment of breathlessness that usually goes away very quickly. I’ve only had one episode where it’s lasted for I’d say 30 seconds. I’ve noticed they are much worse when I am stressed or when I focus on them. I’m prone to anxiety attacks, which incidentally, the PVC’s prompt me to go into a panic attack, which in turn makes me feel like I’m dying, and makes me scared that I am. Vicious cycle, huh? I’m also a hypochondriac. Since I was little I’ve thought I’ve had every disease or illness from AIDS to cancer, to heart failure…and I just realized how insane this post is making me sound. Haha…

Anyway, the past few days I’ve been exceptionally stressed. Sometimes I get the fluttering in my chest, but it will go down my arm, and I feel weak. Then my heart starts thumping, and I get really hot and sometime I feel nauseated. I believe these are also panic attacks, only they feel different than they used to, but I am under a lot more stress which could be the reason why. If my boyfriend starts talking to me, trying to calm me down, or I focus on my breathing, it tends to go away. But I’m also thinking it could be my thyroid, or something along those lines. I don’t know exactly what my question is, but I suppose it would be nice to hear from people who have had similar symptoms, or have been treated for them, and what it ended up being. I’m placing my money on anxiety, but the hypochondriac in me thinks it’s heart disease, or heart failure, or cancer…you get the idea.

Any input would be helpful. Thank you so much.

I went to my physician today and gave him all the symptoms I have and he prescribed Wellbutrin. The problem I’m having is that when I looked up Wellbutrin it says it causes anxiety. I’m having anxiety attacks often and he still prescribed that for me. Any input on that? Why wouldn’t he prescribe something that works on both and why can’t I find anything that treats both?

my moms friend had anxiety attacks and just plain anxiety, and i was talking to him, and he said that it feels like someone is sitting on your chest, and its kinda painful, but the pain doesnt get worse, your left arm can be affected, you can have stomach aches, or nausea, fast heartbeat, stuff like that.

ive been stressing out A LOT lately, and i have everything that i listed above. thats also what my moms friend had, he knows how they feel, and he said that its anxiety.
i just wanted to make sure lol

so is it anxiety?
and if so, how can i treat it?
like, hot baths, naps, what?

thanks everyone!

I have put on quite a bit of weight in the last year and am constantantly working out, eating right with no results. I’m guessing that it’s because I am on Lexapro to treat my anxiety attacks. I’m wondering if there is any diet pills out there, safe one’s only of course, that don’t give you that nervous energy feeling that would possibly create a panic feeling for me. Anyone know?

Recently, I’ve done a lot of reading up on Social Anxiety Disorder and I am fairly certain I suffer from it. I started noticing it about a year ago and it has gotten significantly worse since then, to the point when it has begun to interfere with my everyday life and my ambitious lifestyle. My anxiety occurs mostly in meetings with my fraternity brothers, giving a presentation or answering a question in front of my class, introducing myself to large parties (being put on the spot), or talking to someone I find "important" or intimidating. Strangely enough, getting or giving phone calls to/from people I don’t know well also results in an onset of an anxiety attack.

In these situations, my mind wanders, my heart beats very fast, I sweat a lot, and worst of all (and most noticeably) my facial muscles tense up so that my smile often becomes a twisted half-smile/half-frown. Unfortunately, it has gotten to the point where I try to avoid social situations like those stated above in order to relieve myself of my anxiety attacks. I have tried reasoning with myself but I am getting sick and tired of not being able to grab this debilitating condition by the horns and take my life back . My next semester at college is a HUGE year – I will be the President of my fraternity, I have a good role in a school musical, and I will be beginning my training to become a Physician’s Assistant where I don’t want to be nervously treating patients or appearing anxious in front of peers and professionals.

Can anyone please offer me advice/tips/help?? I am really at wit’s end and will take most suggestions.

Ive had anxiety attacks for about 15 yrs. ive been on and off medication for it. I am extremly afraid of flying in an plane. Its not that Im afraid of crashing, or terroists. im afraid of having an attack on the plane and not being able to leave and walk away if I wanted to. I know this doesnt make sense to a person that doesnt have this…it seems to be only in the mind, but its something thats hard to control. Anyways…i was on a train once and they had to stop the train and let me and two children out in the middle of the desert once because I was having a full blown attack.

I want to visit my 90 yr old grandma very badly that is 3,000 miles away. I am unable to take the time off to drive. Shes not going to b around much longer and Im so bummed that because of this condition, I may never see her again. I was thinking about taking a pill that would knock me out for 7 hrs on the plane. Has anyone done anything like this b4? How would the airplane staff treat it? Any advice?

He is under the care of a holistic and traditional vet, but the anxiety attacks occur at night and I need a way to help him calm down at night, so we can get some sleep! He is being treated with anipryl, and cholodin, supplements….and he is burning too many calories with the anxiety attacks. Does anyone have any advice on what else we can try. He is still happy and engaged 80 percent of the time. Its the nocturnal behavior that I need to address, he walks in tight circles until he falls to a sitting position, and we are having a hard time calming him. Please only serious answers….I don’t need any sarcasm. He is a rescue dog that we have loved for 4 years, and we want to make sure we are doing what is best for him.
Dale – yes the symptoms predated anipryl -this is a rescue with a multitude of problems-now way to know how old he was cuz most of his teeth are gone. 1st month – he began to pass blood in his stool – was diagnosed with IBS, then he began idiopathic biting, found he was partially blind, and after an MRI & spinal tap, found out he had toxoplasmosis. Got all that under control, we had a few good years, and then he began to have mobility problems due to spinal stenosis…we sought the holistic vet to try acupuncture, with good results He was also showing no interest in food, and began to lose weight, and we realized we were dealing with CDS. Tried holistic first, but some supplements aggravated the IBS, then put him on anipryl. The restlessness is mostly nocturnal, have him on high calorie diet, but not making progress on weight gain, more engaged and happy – but the OCD circling could damage his already compromised mobility. Any ideas?

When I have anxiety attacks around attractive females, I tend to subconsciously focus on words associated w/ sexual connotations, or I keep unintentionally treating them in a more sexual manner (mainly because I’m worried I’m GOING to do this).

How to overcome this?

Hello, I’m a 21 year old female, and I get frequent anxiety attacks when I’m in public places. I notice that I get them when I’m in a super market, the mall, restaurants, or anywhere that is overly crowded. When I do get them, my chest begins to tighten, and I feel that the people around me are judging me. The questions that around flying in my head are: ‘ why are these people looking at me?’ ‘what do they think about me?’. I’m a college student, and I use to be able to give oral presentations as if it was nothing, and now its difficult and painful emotionally. I dropped an English class because I wasn’t able to concentrate and the class was based on speech techniques. Now I’m worried if I will be able to graduate with my degree in performing arts, or just filed for a new major. I really love music and hope to become a music instructor but this social anxiety is killing me. What do I do? I don’t wish to be taking any medication because last year, I was treated for my depression/anxiety with Prozac, and the drug was doing damage to my stomach. Any recommendations?

I got exposed to a toxic chemical which lead to extremily elevated cardiac contraction force and tachycardia. This was so severe that there was slight parathesia and cold sensations and ever pre-syncope.
This took 5 hours to dicipate.

It left lasting damage consisting of fluttering, ectopic beat and arrythmias tendencies. This arrhymias is stimulated by stomach rumbling and churning.

There has been 11 attacks consisting of…

Ectopic beats inducing elevated cardiac contraction force with tachycardia to the piont of presyncope, and then a drecrease in cardiac force and increasing tachycardia, followed by normocardia.
This attack lasts about 1-2 minutes.

Doctors claimed that these were anxiety attacks.

I agreed to have propranolol hydrochloride for cardio-psychosis on the basis that this is used to treat arrhymia, after 6 palpitation attacks.

I had 3 several week sustianed moderate palpitation periods after 11 palpitation attacks.
I got given a raised dose from 80mg to 160mg after the 1st moderate sustained palpitation period.

How can I still be alive? Will I still die?
I have had to manage this condition with no medical treatment for 4 years and 11 months.

The propranolol just modifies the effects of this condition and does not stop it.
Arrhythmias can still be severe.
What treatment should I get?
How should I go about getting it?
No evidence of cardiac arrhythmias is evidence on the ECG

Anyway to treat severe anxiety w/o medication, I have lorezpam but I am really get sick of taking medications and the cost of medications, my script will run out soon-only have like 8 left.
Are there any other techniques to getting rid of anxiety? I used to be able to will it all away by tricking my brain into thinking everything will be okay, but it doesn’t work anymore (not since my dad died about a year ago).
PS–background info: I was on paxil for 10 yrs, starting getting BAD anxiety, hyperness, sleeplessness–so they took me off & said I had bipolar depression and associated it with me taking SSRIs –basically I am only bipolar when taking SSRIs–so I went off of it, I tried different mood stabilizers & hated them- My mind felt muddled and I STILL had anxiety attacks.
Now, I am off of all of those drugs besides lorazepam. I get the tightening in my chest, feel like I can’t breathe, feel like im suffucating, & my stomach does cartwheels many times over.
PS, i stopped going to my psychiatrist(s). I got tired of "testing" drugs and I got tired of the side effects of the drugs–and they wouldnt relieve my major issue– ANXIETY. (I tried lamictal, depakote, seroquel)—and couldnt tolerate the side effects. My brain isnt foggy anymore, so i DO feel better drug-free but I do still get anxiety!!! Help! anyone have any tricks to do—or herbs u use to calm yourself down?
Veronica, I am sorry. I have never experienced what you are talking about– "I get some weird sensations around my mouth and cheeks. It feels like a numb/tingly/weak feeling"

I do get the tingly feeling sort of through my entire body but I don’t recall it ever being by my mouth. My arms and BODY get tingly, hairs standing straight up–type-thing.

I really only had a few mini-panic attacks before my dad passed away-and now i get these major attacks often. It is miserable when it happens. I had always heard of people getting this, but I had NO clue how terrible it is.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I guess I will just have to try and find something to work for me. I do have some lorezapam left, so that will help me for awhile. But after that I just really want to learn to deal w/it on my own. I don’t want to get addicted to any medications!

Take care everyone, thanks. Veronica, hope you can figure it out. Your doctor probably knows best, Id trust her/him.

I woke up in the middle of the night from a nightmare and had sharp pain in my stomach and around my chest. I didn’t think anything of it, and spent the rest of the night laying on my back. When I awoke hours later, the pain was still very crampy and spots on my chest were cramping on-and-off (it was up towards the top of the chest and in between my left side and left shoulder). I got up, started getting ready and the pain was gone. The pain on my stomach is right below the center of my sternum. After a mere seconds (no more than a minute), the chest cramps disappeared and I felt fine. I still am having on-and-off stomach pain in that same spot since, but nothing as bad as it was in the middle of the night. I was recently treated with having anxiety attacks and was prescribed with hydroxyzine (10mg) and take levothyroxine (88mcg) for my hypothyroidism. I missed my morning dose of hydroxyzine the day before. Any ideas on if this is just a case of anxiety or could it be heart-related?
I am a 24-year-old male. I am not obese and work as a server, so I’m constantly on my feet. I had an EKG and chest x-ray done about two months ago…came back fine. My doc prescribed me the hydroxyzine and told me to slowly take myself off it, which I’ve been trying to do.