Anxiety - Fight or Flight Response?

[MrsOckert]

Updated info - 1b, 21/48, ND at 12 weeks.  In the last 2 or 3 weeks I've started experiencing anxiety.  It's not everyday and it's not depression.  It's that fear thing and feels like my body has kicked into high gear.  

If I remember correctly from school the fight or flight response has do with your adrenaline, doesn't it?

Has anyone else experienced this and what do you do/take for it?  I have an apt with doc but not till the 13th.  Valorie

[bwave2u]

undrstand the fight or flight. Anxiety building in your chest. hard to breathe.feels like your head's gonna go POP! have that all of the time but over this past week real bad to where i can't sleep. I'm just taking handfuls of xanx. then another handful,and another,and another. but i guess thats not the answer but i'm just dughhhhhhh. others will surely know. they all know so much here. heck, the medicinal mary jane for the glacoma doesn't even help:) I truely hope you get the answers you're looking for and i FOR SURE hope you feel better. in my thoughts.

[beamishboy]

i was doin just the 5 mg 1st 3 weeks of trx;now i take 10mg 1 day and 5 mg the next-alternate dosing;seems like enuff, usually....lower the dose the bettr i like it-cuz ad's make me lazy....Anyways,play w/ dosage,type;do what yu need...The Main,the only thing that counts rite now is keeping yurself comfortable enuff to continue trx meds..
GOODLUCK

[Fisheress]

Great information there!  It was all so iformative.  I too had experience with horrible anxiety attacks unbenounced to me what was really going on! Nothing really going on in my life except a %#*&+! husband of 23 years. I could be sitting in a restaurant eating or anyhing like that, look over at the Ex (that was it! Just occured to me!) and tell him " I don't feel well......boom!!!! pass out!  Wake up, vomit, ambulance would be called, and they could never find anything wrong at the hospital w/me.  This happended time & time again.  My reg doc finally fiqured it out therefore I was able to control w/Zanax and then stopped the med because I was then able to control it to a certain degree. Now they are completly gone and so is the ex!  But I'll tell ya, when one is coming on that you have no control over, it is the most horrilbe thing there is!  Think you are gonna die!

Again Forseegood, great read!
Thanks,
Fisheress

[MrsOckert]

I've never had panic attacks before.  When I read your post I did remember that just before the anxiety I did get light headed and dizzy.  Weird, huh.  I never connected the two.  Paxil you take daily.  Man, I was hoping for something I didn't have to take daily.

What about the Xanax?  Do you take it daily or just when the panic attack comes on?

And do we have any idea what causes them or brings them on?  It's just crazy that it would start out of the blue for no reason at all.  I can't figure out anything in particular that brings it on.

Thanks for answering.

[NYgirl]

My doctor put me on Paxill a month before I started treating (because it takes a few weeks to work).  At the time I thought it was really stupid but I took them. Then I decided I didn't need them and stopped. Well I cracked up big time. Crying, anxious, depressed I mean REALLY just freaking out in only a few days of not taking them so I went right back on. Now I am fine.

I think what the pills do is keep you LEVEL no drastic highs or lows or anxiety building up or anything.

It often is the difference between being able to remain on treatment or not and I am glad I have been taking them.

I've had NO anxiety or nervousness or depression or anything.

PLEASE ask your doctor to prescribe something for you.  You can always go off it if you don't feel it's helping long term.

Maybe some Xxanax or something for the interim since the AD takes a few weeks would help.

You've got such a great history going you should be one of the LAST people to be feeling any of this - keep up the good work!

[anise]

I am going to take the Paxil everyday.  Starting with 10 mg, and if that doesn't work I will go up on dosage.  A couple of years ago my doctor gave me Paxil for pre-menopausal sysmptoms (I'm not sure how that worked), but a side effect was no more panic attacks.  A year later, I weaned myself off the Paxil over a couple of weeks and was able to successfully stop using it.  

For some reason in certain people, the adrenal system goes into a fight or flight mode.  Normally, the flight or fight mechanisms is used to get one away from danger.  It is a powerful response and readies the body to either run or take on the danger.  Well, in our civilized society the danger doesn't have to be there to have an attack.  There are lots of theories why, but it doesn't help when you are one of them that has a haywire flight or fight response.  

For me I aways get a dizzy feeling first, then an otherworldly sensensation like I am not really here.  Then come the sweats, feeling like your going to pass out or have a heart attack.  It's truly horrible!  So when I found out that this might be a side effect for me on treatment, I went to the NP to get a rescue drug for this one!  Hope this helps.