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Posted by Fred Potter on May 3, 2000, at 15:57:41
I frequently roll around in a state of grinding anxiety, crying frantically, after eating. I haven't identified a specific food. Over-exertion will also do it, as will a hot shower sometimes. My Doc says it's "your catecholamine system". Could it be thyroid connected? And finally, this anxiety is not "the jitters". It's a deep, dark, gut-wrenching anxiety that can cause vomitting. The old books call it "nameless dread". Anybody else suffer this way, or any advice? I take celexa 30mg and Xanax. If you have been, thanks for reading this.
Fred
Posted by tina on May 3, 2000, at 16:15:27
In reply to bad reaction to food, excercise etc, posted by Fred Potter on May 3, 2000, at 15:57:41
Fred: I suffer that waywhen I eat too much sugar(in any form). I had a craving for chocolate chip cookies today but after 2 of them I felt awful. I couldn't stop my heart pounding and hand shaking, much more than jitters. Sometimes if I eat more than 2 or 3 cookies (like when I'm really in a funk) I spend the day crying and full of rage, I even hit things without relief. Don't know if its the drugs or what, but I have notices that exercise causes me to get even more depressed too. Sometimes I wonder if its worth it--miserable without drugs, miserable with drugs. Sorry don't mean to bring you down, just having a bad day. Hope this helps, good luck--tina
> I frequently roll around in a state of grinding anxiety, crying frantically, after eating. I haven't identified a specific food. Over-exertion will also do it, as will a hot shower sometimes. My Doc says it's "your catecholamine system". Could it be thyroid connected? And finally, this anxiety is not "the jitters". It's a deep, dark, gut-wrenching anxiety that can cause vomitting. The old books call it "nameless dread". Anybody else suffer this way, or any advice? I take celexa 30mg and Xanax. If you have been, thanks for reading this.
> Fred
Posted by johnturner77 on May 4, 2000, at 11:31:32
In reply to Re: bad reaction to food, excercise etc, posted by tina on May 3, 2000, at 16:15:27
> Fred: I suffer that waywhen I eat too much sugar(in any form). I had a craving for chocolate chip cookies today but after 2 of them I felt awful. I couldn't stop my heart pounding and hand shaking, much more than jitters. Sometimes if I eat more than 2 or 3 cookies (like when I'm really in a funk) I spend the day crying and full of rage, I even hit things without relief. Don't know if its the drugs or what, but I have notices that exercise causes me to get even more depressed too. Sometimes I wonder if its worth it--miserable without drugs, miserable with drugs. Sorry don't mean to bring you down, just having a bad day. Hope this helps, good luck--tina
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> > I frequently roll around in a state of grinding anxiety, crying frantically, after eating. I haven't identified a specific food. Over-exertion will also do it, as will a hot shower sometimes. My Doc says it's "your catecholamine system". Could it be thyroid connected? And finally, this anxiety is not "the jitters". It's a deep, dark, gut-wrenching anxiety that can cause vomitting. The old books call it "nameless dread". Anybody else suffer this way, or any advice? I take celexa 30mg and Xanax. If you have been, thanks for reading this.
> > FredI wonder if this might be a histimine response. Once I had a reaction to beef. I did have a bad case of hives too, but the mental symptoms were very similar
to what you describe; anxiety, tension, sort of a freak out. Anti-histimines cause sleepiness. Could excess histimine cause a high arousal anxiety state? Depending on individual differences,
it is possible that mainly mental symptoms and not physical might appear?
Posted by Fred Potter on May 4, 2000, at 16:33:38
In reply to Re: bad reaction to food, excercise etc, posted by johnturner77 on May 4, 2000, at 11:31:32
> I wonder if this might be a histimine response. Once I had a reaction to beef. I did have a bad case of hives too, but the mental symptoms were very similar
> to what you describe; anxiety, tension, sort of a freak out. Anti-histimines cause sleepiness. Could excess histimine cause a high arousal anxiety state? Depending on individual differences,
> it is possible that mainly mental symptoms and not physical might appear?Thanks John. My psychiatrist prescribed an old anti-histamine called Periactin because of what you say, and also because this drug can break down peripheral excess serotonin. Although I would say it probably worked, it also knocked me out so I wasn't functional.
Fred
Posted by Beager on May 5, 2000, at 5:38:54
In reply to Re: bad reaction to food, excercise etc, posted by tina on May 3, 2000, at 16:15:27
I thought I was the only person who got depressed from exercising!! I would last about ten minutes, then leave the gym in tears. Celexa has stopped this problem. Weird, since I'm not depressed. (Celexa is for sleep and very serious PMS.)
> Fred: I suffer that waywhen I eat too much sugar(in any form). I had a craving for chocolate chip cookies today but after 2 of them I felt awful. I couldn't stop my heart pounding and hand shaking, much more than jitters. Sometimes if I eat more than 2 or 3 cookies (like when I'm really in a funk) I spend the day crying and full of rage, I even hit things without relief. Don't know if its the drugs or what, but I have notices that exercise causes me to get even more depressed too. Sometimes I wonder if its worth it--miserable without drugs, miserable with drugs. Sorry don't mean to bring you down, just having a bad day. Hope this helps, good luck--tina
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> > I frequently roll around in a state of grinding anxiety, crying frantically, after eating. I haven't identified a specific food. Over-exertion will also do it, as will a hot shower sometimes. My Doc says it's "your catecholamine system". Could it be thyroid connected? And finally, this anxiety is not "the jitters". It's a deep, dark, gut-wrenching anxiety that can cause vomitting. The old books call it "nameless dread". Anybody else suffer this way, or any advice? I take celexa 30mg and Xanax. If you have been, thanks for reading this.
> > Fred
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