I have a fear that a a tornado is going to come and rip my house apart, and kill me and my family, I think i got a brain tumor and its going to bust any moment , i think im going to have a heart attack, one occasion i called the ambulance on myself just to make sure I was ok.(which i was) I see hazy fog through my eyes,(I have to wear sunglasses on my head constantly beacause of it) I have issues with falling asleep and stay up till 2 or 3 in the morning, then once i do get to where im about to fall asleep i jerk awake in huge fear with my heart racing and im shaking. Nervous and anxious constantly like im about to drop dead any moment. This is going to sound real WEIRD but i have to have the movie Norbit in my dvd player, playing every night before i even crawl in bed! That sounds a lil ocd type of thing though. I feel like i cant breathe and i always think my left arm is about to go numb any moment. Hot flashes really bad, then dizziness, Im to scared to take the medication effexor beacuse of course i just had to read all the side affect, so if you have any information on that medicine, please leave a note! I'm just curious if anybody expierences these a whole lot like i do!

Hi there.

I've been diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I saw a psychologist and a medical doctor who conferred together and now I am on Paroxatine, a member of the Paxil family. It has helped me a lot.

In my first year of university, I couldn't sleep for days because of my constant fear I was having a heart attack. My left arm would go funny, I would sweat (etc). I would run to the hospital on campus at all hours of the morning freaking out. Other than this crazy heart attack fear, I would feel like buildings were going to collapse while I was in them (I would actually see it happening and formulate plans as to what I would do), I thought everyone who walked by me was going to steal my bag. Basically just loads of crazy things, totally out of my control.

I've been on Paroxatine for a little over a year and while I still fear heart attacks on occasion, they are less scary and go away much quicker.

If you find yourself having an anxiety induced panic attack, try deep diaphragm breathing. I found it helpful to distract myself with puzzles or things that required a lot of thought. If you find you can't sleep, find a movie or TV show that puts you to sleep (mine is Pirates of the Caribbean even though I love it). Hope this helps!

We all have one fear DEATH. Sad but true. My attention is either on my heart thinking I am going to die of a heart attack or when I don't feel good I think I have cancer. Despite the <GREAT>health and seeing so many doctors who did not find anything wrong with me, I just can stop thinking bad thoughts.

The truth is that 50% of the times I feel lousy, somtimes chest pain, sometimes dizzy, sometimes just depressed and sometimes I just feel sick for no reason.

But I have been dealing with this beast fo 6 years and I am still here and I will not lose this battle :D:angel:

thank you so much for your replies, it really does help knowing im not alone!

try zanax it should help your problem

It all sounds like anxiety and depression to me. I have unexplained weird feelings, like dizziness, racing heart, muscle twitching, electric shock sensation, tingling skin etc...no one can figure it out. The doc finally gave me celexa. I took the first pill and it made me feel real weird. So I stopped. I have some xanax to take too if need be. I keep that on standby too. I have insomnia at times too. Hang in there all! Its awful but there had got to be a way out.

hi, i'm a newbie and my anxiety lead to so many phobias that it's almost overwhelming to survive. i am taking 3-4 mg of XANAX a day to survive, i cannot tolerate any antidpressants, tried them all and freaked out on them all. now i'm trying to stay down to 3 xanax a day and by the time my second one is due, i feel detatched, sick and completely panicky, shaky, etc.
i hate anxiety, and live with it constantly. it won't leave me alone.
thanks

Hey XanaxQueen, I am right there with you. I have suffered most of my life. It seems like a living hell. I wish there was a way to get completely cured. Hang in there.......you aren't alone.

Yes agreed- anxiety is an nasty evil goblin playing tricks with our bodies and minds!! you just get one symptom/disease sorted and another sneaks in and it all starts again- what i can't work out at age 40+ why i still can't really trust that its anxiety when i get symptoms- the "goblin" is so sneaky tho, it changes the symptoms so they are always different!!! and i think "this time its really real"....

I have panic attacks and a heart attack phobia and a fear that when I'm left alone with my kids I'll die overnight and they'll come in and find me dead in the morning. I always make sure there's a phone beside my bed in case in the middle of the night I need to call an ambulance. My husband's gone away for a week and I'm terrified that something will happen while he's away. I don't know why I'm like this but i've always been anxious, even as a child. Obviously it's some brain chemistry thing. I take lots of vitamins and supplements and make sure I eat reasonably well but I don't know how much that helps. Sometimes I think it helps, sometimes I think it doesn't. I don't like the way anti depressants make me feel but I do carry xanax in my bag for emergencies. Right up there with you all.

Hi Trixibel! (and hello to everyone else)Wow you are so much like me. I have thought those same thoughts too. I keep a phone by my bed and my cell phone with me at all times. I always think, what if something starts happening to me and I need to call for help right away? And I hope my family doesn't find me dead or something. They are all very real thoughts. YOu are not alone. I get scared too and I hate living like this!

I tried Effexor and got a rash. I personally believe if you just have anxiety and are not clinically depressed, an SSRI or any anti-depressant is not the way to go. Of course, doctors will not agree. They all want to push the AD's. But everyone is different, it may work for you. Paxil IS good for anxiety/panic but beware, it is a major culprit with weight gain. Why don't you get a Rx for an anti-anxiety drug, like xanax or ativan. Yes, doctors will say, Oh you can get addicted to them. Well, hey, I have news for everyone. Your body gets dependent on the AD's too. I'd rather be addicted to a benzo than an AD...........Also you can try listening to relaxing music. There's a lot of relaxation music you on the web you can download to your iPod. I have found that keeping busy, it doesn't matter with what......just stay busy so you cannot think about yourself..........really helps!

My main anxiety is that i will contract cancer and it wouldnt be treatable. This is so real for me, but i also get anxiety attacks at things i cant or havent got any control over, like getting lost in my car and flying, i hate the latter and im terrible when flying. I dont know why really, but the cancer phobia may have come from seeing my Grandad die from it when i was young.

hey everyone thanks so much for your replies, i went to the hospital the other day and got some really good advice from this sweet nurse, he gave me the courage to go home and take my meds, i dont think ive had any side effects from it but my appetite seems to be going down, i didnt have the urge to really eat anything today, my husband made dinner and i felt full really quick, but other than that i feel fine, i guess i'll have to keep taking it and see how it works!!!

i keep my phone right beside me at bed too incase of a emergancy..my fears are that i will faint, go blind, go deaf, have a heart attack, my heart will just stop, or that i will loose consesniess and either wake up in a hospital bed or not wake up at all..my biggest fear is that if i died my daughter would be angrey with me for leaving her..she is only 3 and would not understand it..she would think that i didnt love her and that i just left her..every night before she goes to sleep i am always telling her that i will always love her forever and that i would never stop and it can go on..sometimes i think i am overdoing it... irrational i know but i cant help it..i absoulty love my husband and my son(who is 5 months) but my daughter is the one i worry the most about..i cant emajine her growing up thinking that i just left and i didnt love her or that i was angrey with her and all that

I get terribly anxious about men with abnormally small hands

:confused:

Right now I am dealing with the impending loss of one of my two best friends. Since I have gotten the news, I have been thinking I, myself, am going to die a horrible and painful death. I have even been having nightmares.

The last time I went through something like this was when my Mother passed after 17 years of being in and out of the hospital emergency for congestive heart failure. Is it normal to have this kind of anxiety when someone is dying?

Lindaru :confused:

I think it might be normal for anxiety like that to happen after a death beacause thats when my started was after my brother in law age 23 died in a terrible car crash!!!

Hi!

I would like to chat with you! I'm still confused if I have health anxiety or disease phobia or ? I fear getting cancer and it's been worse since losing my mom in 2005! I'll be fine for a while (days or weeks) then it's back! I'm so tired of wasting my time with it but sometimes I feel like I can't help it!

supermom3

My anxiety about health issues and cancer definetely got worse after i lost my grandad through lung cancer.