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11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 56

Middle of the night panic

Thanks everyone.

I do notice that I'm having unpleasant thoughts before I fall asleep on these nights where I'm waking up in a panic. I have a journal by my bed but I can never bring myself to use it. I'm going to start making a real effort to write things down before bed and hopefully get into that habit.

Doing nothing and hoping the nighttime panic will just stop isn't working for me.

So what do you guys do when it happens? Is getting out of bed for a bit before trying to sleep again the right thing to do or is it better to stay in bed and try to push through it?

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 56

Middle of the night panic

I'm having a really rough night.

We are out of town in a hotel room and I was just reading and watching TV in bed feeling mostly fine until I just started feeling really panicky. I breathed my way out of it and continued on but it came back in full force after a dozed off for a moment and woke back up to turn off the TV and get ready for bed. I just started feeling like all my muscles felt weird and tense and I couldn't relax and everything just felt tight and not right.

Now I'm pretty much in full blown anxiety/panic. I've got the chills and digestive distress. It just doesn't make any sense to me. I really don't feel like anything should be bothering me.

I felt like I was in control before but now I'm losing confidence. I just can't shake the thought that there is something wrong with me.

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 56

Middle of the night panic

I had a rough night last night. We went out to dinner with a group of people and I felt extremely anxious the whole time. Everything hurt from being so tense but the worst was the chest pain. Once we got back to the hotel though I was able to fall asleep and slept good the whole night.

Today I feel okay so far. I realize that I'm falling into the same pattern I used to have where I got anxious in the evening so I have to try to break that cycle. I'm not really sure where to begin. I try to do the breathing and relaxation exercises but it's difficult when I'm already feeling anxious; maybe I need to start them earlier.

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 56

Middle of the night panic

There are a number of thoughts I have when I'm feeling anxious. Some of them are:

"There's something wrong with me"

"What if I'm having a heart attack?"

"I'm a mess and I'll never really get over this?"

or even

"Andrew (my fiance) is going to think I'm weak and stop loving me if I don't pull myself together"

There are a lot of ways I can challenge them. I've been to doctor and a cardiologist and all the tests show that I'm really healthy. I'm 24 years old, eat well, and work out so there's no reason anything would be wrong with me.

Although even now just writing about this is making me anxious. I feel a twinge or something somewhere and start panicking that I'm wrong and there is something medically wrong with me.

I know the thought about never getting over my anxiety is flawed because I went almost a year feeling generally good with only a low level of anxiety so I do know that it's possible for me to feel good.

And for the last thought I've talked to my boyfriend a number of times about this and he's really supportive and positive. I know he loves me and will continue to want to be with me no matter what.

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 56

Anxious about 4 day long headache

Went to the doctor today because I've had this headache that won't go away. It's been 4 days now and it's on the left side of my head kind of above/near the left eye area. It hurts more when I move my head suddenly or my eyes.

The doctor thinks it's probably sinus related and gave me antibiotics but said if it doesn't go away in a week or so we can do some tests. I've got it into my head that I have an unruptured aneurysm (which is pretty crazy because I don't have any of the risk factors or any other symptoms) but I can't seem to shake that thought.

I've been under a lot of stress lately with job interviews but I'm about to go on a week long cruise (this Sunday) and just want to enjoy myself but I'm finding it hard to relax with this headache and the nagging thoughts about aneurysms. I'm worried I'll still have it when the cruise leaves and I'll be anxious about it the whole time!

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 56

Scared to get MRI tomorrow

I've been having a constant headache for 2 months so I'm finally getting an MRI tomorrow. I know it'll make me feel better to know that there is nothing wrong but I'm really scared of actually doing this.

I've been obsessing over catastrophic scenarios where something goes wrong and I'm particularly afraid of getting the contrast (I am having one with and without contrast). My fiance will be coming along but I don't think he'll be in the room with me because he has a meeting around that time that he has to dial into so I may be alone for the test.

Anybody have an MRI with contrast and was it scary? Did it turn out alright?

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