Does anyone have multiple panic attacks daily?
Needs A Hug/SupportRolling panic attacks for me right now. Trembling is the main symptom.
I was also a trembling mess! uncontrollable jaw shaking as well. I know it seems stupid but it truly did help before the medication kicked in was breathing exercises. not just for 5 minutes but 20-30 minutes. I know it will be hard at first but for me it was the most helpful with stopping the upcoming Panic attack. walking around also helps me take my mind off it. showering in cold water or an ice pack on the back of your neck to regulate the vagus nerve. I hope you find relief soon I know it's so hard.
I'm only on day 6 of Lexapro 5mg 😫
I’m curious if the cymbalta was prescribed specifically for anxiety? I took it for 15 years (got off it 7 years ago) for fibromyalgia pain and didn’t think it was really helping with anxiety but now I’m wondering if it helped more than I realized and I should consider going back on.
yes it was prescribed for both anxiety and pain. it seems to work pretty well compared to the medications I've been on and I've tried out a lot.
Thanks, sounds like I should reconsider!
Hows the latuda working for you? My duloxitine 100% needs a helper.
I've only been taking it for a couple weeks now at 40mg. I think I feel an effect on my evening anxiety since I take it around that time. I did feel drowsy the first couple nights but it passed. no bad side effects so far!
I had the same for 3 months or so very recently. Definitely the most I’ve ever suffered in my entire life ha. At least I know I’m not alone.
Very similar story here, started in October 2023 and just only in the recent weeks has gotten better. it was very hard.
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Do you feel like your in panic all day? I do
It’s hard to get out a panic, but I have found a few ways that works for me. (But they can’t be applied for long)
Sometimes. Not too often anymore thankfully.
Used to but the more it happened I got better at controlling it or getting myself distracted
I have had times like that. I get back on Lexapro when I get into one of my panic times. It takes that feeling away.
I'm on Lexapro day 6.. 5 mg.. I wonder if it will help
Will you be going up to 10mg? It might take a bit after that.
Yes at day 14.
10mg worked for me for a long time. I've had to go up to 15mg.after several years.
How long did it take meds to work for you?
I have had several anxiety attacks today. I have been so scared of the future the whole of today. Outwardly look very happy but in my heart I feel so much pain and regrets. I hope I am able to overcome this very soon.
Me too! My Anxiety is all over human memory how we can visually see things in the mind for recall. 😫
Depends on the day. But yes. But worry not. At some point I used to have plenty daily. It got better with me when I started taking meds. Im not suggesting that you should but im saying what helped me.
5mg Lexapro daily right now
How long have you been taking it?
7 days
Give it a total of 21 days to start seeing results. And the results will not be exceptional from the get-go but it will be remarkably noticeable.
I hope it helps
InshAllah it will brother
Inshallah ❤️
Currently yes. If my bidy could calm tf I'd be so happy.
I feel ya pain! I hate living in fear and anxiety over my damn thought process.
Yesss! Look into DARE response on YouTube. They’ve helped me immensely
Yes. It is why I am often put on clockwork Xanax/Ativan.
Just the shift into wakefulness gives me my first panic attack when I'm unmedicated.
Yes - I recently went through 3 months of daily panic attacks, 5-6x a day and through the night. I managed to stop them from happening a few weeks ago. Was hell though.
I have them all day as well. The moment I wake up I instantly get a panic attack. I hate waking up.
I haven’t in a while but I used to. Happened day after day for hours on end and completely messed me up. Thankfully, that was what I was able to leverage to finally get a diagnosis, but still. It’s horrible and I’m so sorry anyone has to experience it
I did when my Grave's disease was out of control. I was staying hyperthyroid. Thyroid disease symptoms have so much anxiety and panic when your thyroid levels are high. Even low thyroid causes bad anxiety and depression.
not panic attacks but anxiety attacks, I feel that even the smallest things cause some trigger in me and when they happen I become extremely obsessive about how my body reacts to it, I'm already scared that I'm wearing it out (nervous system, heart, organs that depend on of our mind to work fine) faster than other people my age because of this, It's horrible, sometimes I feel like doing anything is more difficult and that causes more fear in my mind, it's shit
Omg THIS. There is no way these are "harmless". The se sations are just alarming and painful and I am trying SO hard to self talk that I'm okay, just adrenaline, not having a heart attack etc but I dont believe myself anymore. I'm convinced I'm going to drop dead at any minute. I'm exhausted.
Yep, anxiety is shit, the best thing I can do is take a calmly natural remedy and try to relax in some way, when I manage to distract myself the "symptoms" go away and so does the feeling, too bad they come back some time later, be it in 30 minutes or 4 hours
I get so pissed off at round 2 and 3. I could tolerate the symptoms if not for the overwhelming feeling of "uh oh medical emergency you're going yo die get help NOW"
I UNDERSTAND YOU SO MUCH, my biggest panic happens at dawn, I sleep and then for some reason I wake up anxious, sweaty and with palpitations, I try to calm down and then I go back to sleep and then after a while I wake up again anxious but without palpitations but my my brain still stays "red light, your body is wrong" and I get fed up with it, I just want to live like a normal person, do normal things without thinking "will I die if I run on a treadmill? will I die if I play a sport for too long? Will I die if I just get too excited about ANYTHING?" they simply make me go crazy, it gets to the point that in addition to anxiety I also feel angry at my own mind.
Oh my god the broken sleep/wake cycle. I'll wake up with just TENSION in my chest and just panicky, almost like a hangover. I think "if I move will ilI die?" I'm really hoping that at SOME POINT I'll just stop caring if I suddenly drop dead.
yes before medication I had rolling panic attacks in the morning (one panic attack after the other) for up to 4 hours sometimes. totally depleting. I also have ocd and depression so I'm on a pretty heavy medicine cocktail that seems to work at the moment. duloxetine, latuda, olanzapine.