I was about 22 when the doctor told me my symptoms pointed to General Panic Disorder. It began when I was about 18, in my last year of high school. Sometimes I had a hard time going to sleep and I felt anxious and i felt like i could hear my heart and I would breath faster. It didn’t happen that much but it has been getting progressive ever since. I am now 24, and about 30 times a week I have feelings of what I call "being displaced". I get really anxious, I feel dizzy and I feel like I am not really there. I concentrate too much on breathing and scare myself more. It happens mostly when I am at a movie theatre or watching an intense movie. When I look up at the sky. When I am sitting in class in college and its quiet. And now I’m more scared because just to pass the stress of the attack I twitch, like a mini seizure or something, i dont know but its scary, like i make a fast jolt with my shoulders. Is it just panic attacks or should I be more worried?

Tags: feelings, hard time, heart, jolt, movie theatre, Panic Attacks, panic disorder, seizure, shoulders, sky, sleep, stress, twitch

Ive been having a lot of panic attacks lately. and I was wondering if this was a normal symptom of them. When im having a panic attack my legs or my shoulders get so heavy I feel like I cant move them.And even after the panic attack has subsided I still feel heaviness in them. It feels like there paralyzed. also im 22 weeks pregnant, could this be something i should be concerned about? it goes away after awhile but comes back when im feeling anxious or having a panic attack. i really need some reassurance!

Tags: legs, Panic Attacks, reassurance, shoulders

A little more detail, I’m having trouble breathing… it feels like the "after-effects" of being scared where your chest feels heavy and I’m taking deep breaths. Its also like taking a few too many energy drinks or Red Bulls but my heartbeat is around 110. The first occurrence happened last night and lasted for about 2 hours (took an aspirin, not sure it helped but the symptoms faded over time), its happening now and its been going on for about an hour or two. My hands, fingers and arms feel normal with no tingling sensations nor are they shaky/jittery. No shortness of breath and my shoulders/neck aren’t sore or in pain so I’m pretty sure its not Heart Attack related.
Breathing deep breaths cause a bit of a lightheaded feeling

I’m 34 years old, about 70lbs overweight, don’t feel overly stressed about anything nor am I in a situation that could bring upon a panic attack. As for Diet, over the weekend I had a few extra cups of caffeine than normal but none last night or this morning.

As far as I can tell, my heart feels like its pumping extra hard (but beating the same) and no other symptoms other than a slight lightheaded feeling and a caffeine headache.

Tags: aspirin, deep breaths, diet, energy drinks, fingers, having trouble breathing, headache, heart attack, heartbeat, occurrence, panic attack, quot, red bulls, sensations, shortness of breath, shoulders

[EVEN THOUGH THIS LOOKS LONG, PLEASE READ IT AND HELP ME!]

My name is Sarah, I’m 14, a rising freshman, and I live in an apartment complex with my dad (who works all day). Before I can ask about my problems, you need to know a little more about my history. I don’t want you to think I’m any different than you because I’m not… except for one little thing.
I have a hereditary anxiety and depression disorder that my mom passed down to me. It’s some kind of chemical imbalance. I was diagnosed 3 years ago. I was put on Prozac through 6th grade but it made me act up so we tried Wellbutrin which made me sick after 2 weeks. So through 7th and 8th grade, I’ve been on Zoloft. I felt stable enough to try and ease my way off the meds after school was out. (8th grade summer) I was doing better than ever without them all the way up until Wednesday August 20th. My dad and I were sitting at breakfast when all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I got the symptoms of an anxiety attack. Tingling on the back of my neck and shoulders, nausea, shaking, and an over all feeling of fear. Like I said, it came out of nowhere, for no reason. When we got home I tried to relax but nothing worked. So my dad gave me my medicine back and I started taking the prescribed 50mg of Zoloft again. (It’s usually suppost to take a week to fully kick in) Anyways, I had the anxiety until I was just too sleepy to notice it. I thought… maybe it will pass overnight, but it didn’t. The next morning as soon as I opened my eyes I felt it again. I just needed somebody to be with, so I went outside and got a couple friends to talk to but it still didn’t go away. For some reason when the sun is down and it’s dark outside I feel better. Anyways, this has been going on for the longest 4 days of my life. Every day, it’s the same damn thing and I’m so tired. I can’t eat and I already lost 6 lbs. I can’t help whats happening to me. It’s like a curse that’s ruining my life. I’m in the middle of an attack right now and I feel so dizzy. I WANT IT TO STOP!!! BUT THE MEDECINE ISN’T WORKING! I feel so helpless. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HARD I’VE TRIED TO FIND A WAY TO STOP IT!!! I’m NOT suicidal, but life just isnt worth living like this. please, is there any other way to get rid of it???

IM BEGGING FOR HELP

Tags: 3 years, anxiety and depression, apartment, back of my neck, chemical imbalance, couple friends, curse, dad, damn thing, days of my life, depression disorder, freshman, meds, nausea, next morning, prozac, shoulders, symptoms of an anxiety attack, wellbutrin, zoloft

I am 16 years old and i just started birth control for the first time.

in the past, i suffered from panic attacks and anxiety. i didn’t have a panic attack disorder or anything, but i would constantly get them because i would over think about getting them,

and thats when they would start up.
i used to do ecstacy a lot, and when i stopped cold turkey i got withdraws and that’s where my panic attacks even began in the first place.
i stay away from that drug, and haven’t done it in a number of months now,

they went away and i had no problems. sometimes, even would i would over think about having another panic attack.

i have been taking birth control for seven days so far,
and the first two days were good, i had no pains, no change in my mood or body.

lately, i have been getting shortness of breath,
a few episodes of panic attacks here and there
i can’t sleep at night because i have shortness of breath
and i over think about what’s happening to me

i have bad aches in my eyes,
shoulders,
neck,
back,
head(sometimes)
numbness in my legs, and hands
cold sweats
real bad side pains in my left rib cage- i feel the ache of it when i cough or sit down or move a certain way
random little jerks through my body
random aches in my legs out of nowhere

and i’m sure a few more sypmtoms that i can’t remember right now,
but those are the mains ones i suffer with daily.

and i don’t know if i’m getting all this from over thinking,
because i tend to over think especailly after expiercings panic attacks,
or if birth control is just not for me.
what should i do?

Tags: ache, anxiety, birth control, cold turkey, jerks, legs, mains, numbness, panic attack, Panic Attacks, rib cage, seven days, shortness of breath, shoulders, sleep

There is nothing wrong with my heart, I was at the hospital and got an EKG test about 2 months ago (where I had my first panic attack, and I’m 15), but
The last few days I’ve had a pain in my chest, arms, shoulders, nervous stomach, high blood pressure in a few seconds and felt dizzy (anxiety and panic attack symptoms), and EVERY morning these three days when I wake up, MY heart just beat SOO fast and I feel like I cannot breath, It’s so annoying and I get so nervous, and think I’m gonna die or have a heart attack, and I won’t go to sleep because of that…

WHAT AM I GONNA DO :/??
Anyone who have felt the same way??
PLEASE help??

Sincerely – Me

Tags: anxiety and panic attack, ekg test, few days, heart attack, high blood pressure, nervous stomach, panic attack symptoms, shoulders, sleep

There is nothing wrong with my heart, I was at the hospital and got an EKG test about 2 months ago (where I had my first panic attack, and I’m 15 and not obese, though I have a lack of exercise), but
The last few days I’ve had a pretty mild kind of pain and pressure in/on my chest, arms, shoulders, nervous stomach, high blood pressure in a few seconds and felt dizzy (anxiety and panic attack symptoms, while I haven’t felt them today only in the morning), and EVERY morning these three days when I wake up, MY heart just beat SOO fast and I feel like I cannot breath, It’s so annoying and I get so nervous, and think I’m gonna die or have a heart attack/thrombus, and I won’t go to sleep because of that…

WHAT AM I GONNA DO :/??
Anyone who have felt the same way??
PLEASE help??
I sounds weird, but really, It’s not funny ;/

Sincerely – Me

Tags: anxiety and panic attack, ekg test, few days, heart attack, high blood pressure, lack of exercise, nervous stomach, panic attack symptoms, shoulders, sleep, thrombus

please help me! my meds were changed from 300mg Wellbutrin to 150mg and 60mg Cymbalta. This is the first day i’ve started with cymbalta. Now i am freaking out and i don’t know what else to do. My mom ended up giving me two klonopin the help calm me down because it might be an anxiety attack (runs in the family). It’s been about 15 min since i took the second one, and i’m still strung up.
I can’t concentrate when there are a lot of people talking, i’m shaky/twich, i have this feeling of extreme excitement without the happy part (i guess you could say panic…but it doesn’t seem like that). i have a headache and my neck, back, and shoulders are tense. i feel so drugged up right now its hard to even type this. i have several minutes when it feels like an out of body experience…(i’m there and i can see everyone but it feels like i’m standing ten feet behind my eyes…if that makes sense. kinda like i’m gonna pass out but there is no ringing ears or sweating like usual.) i keep laughing uncontrolably about nothing! this is so freaking annoying!

Is it withdrawal symptoms from lowering Wellbutrin, is it starting Cymbalta straight off at 60mg, is it an anxiety attack, or could it possibly be a manic/hypomania episode? (There is some bipolar in my family) My mom’s calling my psychiatrist tomorrow, but what do i do right now.?
0.o“`~~~whoa, now i feel loopy
any suggestions on what i can do until tomorrow? Thank you all in advance

Tags: anxiety attack, bipolar, body experience, cymbalta, extreme excitement, headache, klonopin, meds, mom, psychiatrist, ringing ears, shoulders, ten feet, uncontrolably, wellbutrin, withdrawal symptoms

Hi.Since having perimenopause symptoms start several years ago I have had to deal with some anxiety.I thought it had gone away but today,while back to school shopping with my kids I could feel myself getting so tense.My back and shoulders are so tense they ache,I am shaky on the inside,have a headache,feel like I have the flu almost.I also have the health anxiety,the feeling that something is horribly wrong with me(fear).I have the numb feelings in my hands and feet as well.I know the stress of back to school made me sick last year,but has anyone else felt like this before?Have you felt like you had the flu,but it was anxiety?Also-I took two tylenol(500mg a piece)for my headache-would it be safe to take a .25 mg xanax to help the anxiety?Thanks to all who answer,I hate anxiety!!! GOD-bless

Tags: flu, god, hands and feet, headache, health anxiety, numb feelings, perimenopause symptoms, shopping, shoulders, stress, tylenol, xanax

I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder with agoraphobia 6 years ago. I am disabled due to this, I worry constantly about everything in life. the past year I’ve began to develop uncontrolled twitching in my arms, my arms will begin to jerk and my hands claw up at times. It is usualy just something that happens at all times, usually when Im feeling sorta relaxed. It’s not all the time but about 10 times a day where I clench my neck muscles under my jaw and my entire arms tighten at the same time and my hand goes into a claw for about 3 seconds at a time…I feel a wierd tickly sensation in my neck when I do this, or sometimes I’ll just sit there and my arm will flale to my side in a nervous movement. The past year I’ve also developed severe nerve pain in my arms and weakness in my arms and legs, this happens in cycles…I’ll get it every 2 months roughly, (about every 6 to 8 weeks) It’ll come on abruptly, sudden nerve pain and weakness feeling like I am going to collapse, it comes in waves for and entire week. Again it hits me every 6 to 8 weeks and lasts for a week and during that week, I hurt to the bone, my nerves feel like they are on fire and it comes in really horrible waves. I’ll be ok one minute then next minute I feel a rush of energy hit me and I begin to get horrible pain in both forearm and bicep muscles and terrible pain that runs from them into my hands…I even hurt at times between my bones in my hands…its vague pain…its hard to describe but its like a deep tissue nerve pain..it’ll hit usually my arms and legs at the same exact time, sometimes just my arms, but its always both arms at the same time..its never just one side or the other, always both left and right side, and the pain is in my shoulders in my trap muscle area and goes down to the muscles around my collar bone and across my back just below my shoulders…I went to my doctor he says it must be anxiety related but he is puzzled…he said people that are suffering disabling anxiety seem to suffer from a broad range of physical ailments…nobody is quite the same, everyone has their own type of pains and he said in the medical profession they call it semantics… he said its basically imagined pain if that makes sense…he said he didnt want to sound ignorant about it but its basically the heavy load of stress in my mind making my body react this way and me not being on any sort of any anxiety medicine (due to my fear of medicines) is making me worse…..I just want to get some other opinions out there…I am scared because this pain I experience is freaking me out and makes me feel like im going to die. It’s brutal and I don’t know what to do about it..I want to take medicine but am scared to death of meds yet am scared to continue living this hell I live…thanks alot for reading…it is much appreciated…

Tags: 6 years, arms and legs, bicep, bones, collar bone, deep tissue, exact time, forearm, generalized anxiety disorder, horrible pain, neck muscles, nerve pain, nerves, panic disorder, rush, sensation, shoulders, waves

For the last 2-3 months (approximately) I have been having a lot of weird and random pain, mostly in my upper left region. I randomly will get chest pain, sometimes localized, sometimes all around. It will often radiate to my shoulders, arms, and neck .. more often on the left side. Also, I will get a lot of abdominal pain and discomfort under my ribs. I have been associating it to anxiety, due to events of the past year. I don’t always feel anxious or stressed out, but I also know you can get pain/anxiety attacks out of the blue. The symptoms I have described will come and go throughout the day, sometimes last a few second, sometimes minutes, sometimes longer. Sometimes, also, the pain will catch me off guard and be so severe that it will cause me to become more anxious/nervous and there have been occasions where I have had to pull over when driving to just breath and/or rub my arm/shoulder/top of chest.

Currently as I am typing this and throughout today, it is a burning and stabbing feeling. It is making me restless, cranky, and overall tired and irritable.

I have had an ECG almost a year ago and a chest CT due to a blood clot in my lung and a CT of my abdomen a few months ago .. all came back okay.

I am a 22 year old female and otherwise am healthy. I often worry that it might be something severe, but I, and others, have been contributing it to anxiety .. I guess it is just to the point where I am unsure anymore and it is becoming unbearable.

I am just looking for some opinions/thoughts I suppose of what it could possibly be.

Tags: abdomen, abdominal pain, anxiety, arm shoulder, blood clot, chest ct, chest pain, ecg, occasions, out of the blue, ribs, shoulders

I have GAD and currently in the process of changing my meds. and have been having panic attacks everyday. im just wondering if these symptoms are normal for panic or if there something else. I get heaviness that radiates from my face, to my shoulders to my legs. it feels like these body parts get so heavy, and ive never expierenced that before. i dont want to call the doctor just yet, because im such a hypochondriac. so pleas anyone who has had these symptoms, or if you think its something worth going and getting checked out. thanks

Tags: body parts, hypochondriac, legs, meds, shoulders