Posted by kostyshock on August 15, 2002, at 21:53:20
I had my first panic attack in Oct 2001 but it wasn't that bad, i went to the er and went home and went to bad felt normal. So I thought maybe I need something just in case so I went to my doc and he gave me .5mg of Xanax and took that for a month and eventually ran out and didn't even think about it or go back to the doctor. I just lived my life, but I started developing cramps and I started feeling more irritable but I still felt myself and could sleep like a bear. Anyway, I went to the er a couple of more times and my girlfriend was really upset. This was between Dec. 2001 - March 2002. After March I felt great, numbness went away, sleeping great, laughing. Then I was in a car accident in late May 2002. It wasn't really that bad but the anxiety started to flare up. My doc put me on .5 Xanax again In June 2002, for a month i took it and once again i was getting cramps and feeling more anxious than usual. So I go to a stomach doc and says I have irritable bowel syndrome. I was like how in the hell did I get that. Well I look up Xanax and a side effect is irritable bowel syndrome. Well the cramps get bad and go to the er late June 2002. They say the same thing and say i'm having a anxiety attack. So they put me on Ativan 2mg twice a day. I did this for 5 days. Then cold turkey everything. This is when Myself changed. I went into complete shock, shaking, crying, really bad cramping, couldn't sleep. I had put my body into shock and have changed my mind. A couple of days later still going threw the shock I had to drive. OMG, this is when I was really really anxious and had the biggest panic attack ever. My hearing went on my left side, my arm went numb, sweating really bad, couldn't talk and I was in a car going to a doc 20 miles away by myself. I seen hospital and pulled in there. They put me on buspar 15mg twice. That shit didn't do nothing. Then I seen my shrink, he told me to forget this story that my body wasn't put into shock that it was a underlying anxiety. Well to a point yes it was underlying anxiety, but i could control it. These drugs made it worse and literally changed my mind. It put my body into shock and i lay trying to sleep and my eyes open up and my mind is saying damn you can't sleep you really gave me a shock. So now its been about a month and a half and they had me on Paxil and I couldn't take it. thought suicidal but didn't want to do it, and made me more anxious, like there was tremendous pressure in my head, now they have me on buspar for the last 10 days don't feel as anxious or depressed but still can't sleep and the doc says you probably can't sleep cause the anxiety. No shit sherlock. I'm just saying I don't feel the same after all this shock. Has anyone experienced this and does it eventually wear off?
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