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.

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..

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

How do doctors diagnois this and what is the treatment for this disorder? Sorry, if the spelling is off.

Okay. I know it sounds weird. I was diagnosed with panic disorder but looking back on my case, doctors think they misdiagnosed me. Here are my symptoms:
-Massive mood swings: from comfortable to angry to sad in about 5 minutes.
-Hearing voices and hallucinations but verbal not physical
-I have these attacks where I get really stressed and I freak out and then I act like the things above.

Weird. I only hear voices or get massive mood swings when I am having my "panic attacks".

I don’t understand why doctors in my area refuse to adequately treat anxiety. I lost my mom a little over a year ago and have developed well-documented case of PTSD, anxiety and depression since then. The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is also an anxiety disorder. I had a breakdown in April, and two months later nobody will prescribe me anything other than a SNRI (antidepressant) for my anxiety.

I guess there is a lot of drug abuse where I live but I am one who plays by the rules. I live in chronic pain and have been on the same meds and in a pain management clinic (VERY STRICT) for 7 years. Why won’t doctors give me anything for the days when the panic and anxiety attacks are really bad (2-3 times a week) at least for a couple of months while I’m in the worst of it???? What are they so afraid of?
I am in counseling with a psychologist… I see a psychiatrist. I can’t work because the anxiety has been so bad as to affect my ability to sleep, work, and usually drive.

I need to get a job and get on with my life, but how can I do that when simply driving to the store sends me on a hellish fit of fear and panic? I cant even get to the doctors easily….

If you were once a sufferer and found treatment, your opinion would be most valid.

when I was 19 I had an anxiety attack .I was prescribed xanax . I was on them for awhile but not for long. As life went bye I began having constant nausea and stomach pain. I went through every stomach pill imaginable. Nothing worked and I was in er 4 days out of a week. Finally the doctors took the right path and started treating me for anxiety and depression. After about two weeks evrything was almost great . I had no nausea or stomach pain. I am still doing ok while taking 200mg of zoloft daily. The only trouble is I still have those sudden anxiety attacks . I will be sick for two days until it passes. I have tried everything for the anxiety but nothing works. I want to try xanax again occasionally when I have these attacks but my doctor will not prescribe it . I can never sleep either due to worrying and anxiety and think that xanax might help.

I have fought panic attacks for over 40 years and am more
than tired of all the different doctors from all fields of practice.
I have even had doctors now-a-days tell me you’ve had this
long that no treatment can help ! Any ideas are better than
theirs. Thanks

well I am a gay and I have been suffering anxiety since I am 18,I tried some medications before because of doctor, I feel horrible my stomach and cold in my foot, and I feel my hands sweating and.. I speak too fast, I am taking now efexor again but now 150mg, some nights, I can’t sleep so I have to clonazempa, well I live in mexico in a small town, I feel sometimes, I have accepted myself but some parts of me are so sensible when someone asks me if I am gay or mom is crying, because I told her I have seen a handsome guy, etc.. I don’t know what to say,sorry if you can’t my understand my questions. please tell me something, I have visited a psychiatric, two psychologists.. sorry for my bad spelling too. I am confused with this website now
well according one psychologist, she told me nobody was born gay and the other told me my psychologist tests told her, I could change if I want to be straight, she told I should try with a girl.. well actually.. I don’t want to do it.. I don’t feel good to do it..
btw I don’t want to spend more money with those things of going to doctors..

Sometimes I get them but I would also like to know if other people get them too. I know that people do but very few people are ever candid about it. I also get mild anxiety attacks when I’m in a very large crowd of people. Not that I am scared of people but I just feel very closed in around a bunch of people. I would like not hear about taking medication or seeing a doctor. Because what if there were no doctors or medications that you can take for it, Thank you and good advice is helpful.

I was diagnosed with anxiety about 5 months ago and am currently taking Zoloft for it. I am a first time mom and my son is 8 months old. Following childbirth, I had eclampsia with seizures. Ever since I had these, I am TERRIFIED of having another one…which doctors say is HIGHLY unlikely! Well, since then I have had bloodwork, 2 MRI’s, CAT scan, and all kind of heart tests. I still get lightheaded at times…and my heart feels like it is beating fast and I feel like Im going to faint. I cant stand feeling like this! Do you think the lightheadedness could be due to the Zoloft? Also, there is no way that heart attack symptoms could last this long, right?

I get severe panic/anxiety attacks sometimes. It’s happened a lot more recently, and I’ve went to the doctors to check everything but they said it was okay. Usually I get a slight anxiety attack during school, but it’s not as bad as my severe ones. Anyone know anything I can do to relax myself while getting these? I usually start breathing really fast and somewhat lose breath, I get very hot, and my heart RACES. Anyone know anything that I can do or use to relax myself? Thanks.

Yea, I know the answer is no right now, but I am being optimistic… do you think there will ever be a cure for Panic Disorder? and by cure, I mean, a way for doctors to correct the chemical imbalances in us, other than through meds?

I think I may have anxiety and The doctors in my area aren’t sutable to diagnos a dog so what are the symptoms? If you have this tell me what it feels like.

Basically, i have had Panic/Anxiety Attacks since i was about 8 years old (maybe younger). Over the years, its usually comes and goes, but when it comes, it comes back for a long time. i have misses like 5+ months school in the past due to this.

I have gone through all avaiable help, which doesnt include taking drugs, as i think thats the last resort.

However recently my attacks are far worse then before, not only do i vomit, shaking, etc but now unable to sleep at all. i get attacks within minutes of closing my eyes, and do last hours.

Having visit the doctors, after 4 days (less than 5 hours sleep) for help, they basically said, they tried everything. they dont really know what to do next. up to me if i wanna try drugs which might get me hocked (not in his words).

Having heard this, atm, im at a all low, because im starting to lose the battle against this, and dont know what to do next.

Has any1 else had the same problem, or any advice???
i have already tried Cognitive Behavioural therapist, hypnotherapist, etc, i was given drugs to reduce heart rate, but none really worked. well it did work for a while, while my mind adapted to something more extreme. because atm, listening to calm music, breathin excerises dont work, where they use to before.

i am on medication and have seen several doctors but i am unable to be on my own which means i have to be baby sat at 27 years old its very degrading i am on incapacity benefit but am i entitled to any Other help please help i am now very desperate..

I need help with my mum!! She has been suffering with anxiety and panic attacks for many many years…she cant go out without someone being with her and even then on a bad day she still cant face it!!
I feel that this has led to major depression for her as she now doesn’t see the point in still being here…I’ve done as much as I can and I’m now at a loss.
She is constantly at the doctors for this that and the other and she is on lots of different medication….but doctors dont seem to take her seriously and the medication doesn’t seem to help her. She has also been diagnosed with heamachromotosis which is an Iron overload disorder and she has to have blood taken on a regular basis to lower her iron levels…..could this maybe be having an affect on how she is ??? I dont know?. Also, I recently found out that my grandfather, her father, suffered with depression and was actually admitted to a mental institute for a while..although he always seemed fine to me…could it be genetic??
vera c,,,please could you tell me where to get the things you suggest as I feel anything is worth a try ….and thank you for your advice.
sorry the last note was meant for toy shop cop!! meant to send you both a note and got you confused..lol!!
vera c…thankyou so very much for your advic.. it is all relevent and has been taken on board …thank you

I have been having panic attacks and have consulted various doctors. It starts with weakness in thigh and now in the jaw. My blood test are find and thyroid test and xray for hip and neck are also fine.

ok so i suffer really bad panic attacks and anxiety attacks they use to come once or twice a day but now they are that bad that they never go away theres not a muinet in the day that they go i am constantly fealing like i carnt breath and my chestis always tight and on a night i can not sleep because i get the fealing i am choking and my chest is that tight that my heart is going to stop and it terrifies me and then i go into a panic attack i then get no sleep and because i am so tierd my panic attacks are worse, they are rewining my life im starting to get terrified to leave the house or travel in cars!i constantly feel tierd. i quit my job because of panic attacks! but if that is not worse i think i am suffering deppression i am never happy i constantly cry and have mood swings i have lack of appetite and sometimes have suicidal thoughts! i have been to the doctor loads of times and he just keeps sayin oh its all in your head and theres nothing up with me he even says im a hypacondriak! can any body tell me why i am like this because im starting to think i am going mental! and i call the ambulance out a few time and i carnt keep doing this! am i deppressd? mental? got a seriouse underlieing problem? or dose any one know what to ask for at the doctors to help me!! im only 17 and this is in england! x

I was reading somewhere that they take blood, and check you out for other illnesses, before they actually diagnose someone…So, How(or what.) do the Doctors do, before diagnosing someone with Panic Disorder.

Thanks to anyone who answers.

Does anyone ever feel "weird" like everything is a dream.
like your not yourself.?
Has the doctors told you it was JUST anxiety, but you think its something else??
When did you get your first panic anxiety attack?
How often do you have panic attacks?
Whats ALL the symptoms you experience when getting anxiety/panic attacks??
Do you feel sick everyday?? like how?

I DO. and i think its more then anxiety.
i feel sick everyday. but i dont get the panic attacks like i use to.
my heart doesnt race. i hate it!!!!! i always feel like im going to fall over when walking. i think the worst is going to happen to me everyday.
just wondering how others feel when they have one or had one?
so give me all the info you can.

I keep getting these attacks. Im not thinking any bad thoughts. Im fine. But i still get these attacks. Im not a fan of tablets and the doctors are not much help. any advice

ok, so i have been having all the symptoms of panic attacks, and every one of the 4 doctors i’ve seen came to the same conclusion…anxiety disorder, panic attacks…

they did cat scans, holtor monitor, ekg, thyroid tests and ultrasounds, and multiple blood tests

NOTHING IS WRONG WITH ME BUT THIS PANIC THING!!!

how come i feel like there is something major wrong with me…

this jsut came out of no where…with no reason….i keep feeling like now im turning into a hypochondriac…

every ache and pain i think is something serious…

my leg hurt for the last 2 days, i keep telling myself its a blood clot….i had a 2 day headache, i though was a brain turmor…

i went from perfectly normal to a mental health freak….is this normal for panic things???

i have this….thing, its like im in this defense mode, im always waiting for a panic attack to happen….and now its like im expecting it to happen unless im really busy…

is being emotional part of it?

Interested in answers from all. I went to the doctors and all he could offer was tablets, no counselling as there is no specific couselling available in UK to deal direct with Panic Attacks. Because of this, after just being made redundant I am going retrain to help people. Do you know that 1 in 10 of us will have them at some point in our lives. You can get private counselling but they tend to charge over £60.00 an hour.