I'm 44 and I have been battling Panic and Panic Disorder off and on now for about 20 plus years. It started for me in my senior year of college when I started having Panic Attacks which later developed into Panic Disorder. I've been seeing a Psychiatrist every two weeks now for about 16 or 17 years and I'm currently taking 200mg of Luvox daily to help me control my anixety and depression. I had been doing very well for past few years with very few episodes of panic. Most of my panic is related to ingesting anything that I think will make me panic again, so other medications, alcohol and in the past food. I've also been diagnosed with agoraphobia although I don't usually have fear like that. For the past month or so I'd been having panic attacks again which I was doing okay with. They were always upsetting, but they with infrequent enough that I didn't feel discouraged. Anyhow, about two weeks ago the Panic Disorder started up again. Now whenever I eat food, I become terrible anxious that I will have another panic attack. I have to force myself to eat meals and try to distract my self until I feel somewhat relaxed again. Sometimes I panic a little, sometimes I'm okay. There are a number of factors that I can pin point to why this has happened, and many of them were random. Life happens, work becomes stressful, it gets cold outside, our bodies age, we get sick. But I guess the truth is that I realized it was more then I could handle. It's been really upsetting and tiring and I guess I just wanted to reach out to others like myself who suffer with these issues. Feel free to say hello and I'm hoping everyone is doing okay tonight.
