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Anxiety - Fight or Flight Response?
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
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
Thanks Foreseegood for the panic attack information. I really liked the idea that we are an intelligent and sensitive lot :) Sure seems like a lot of people have them. Mine didn't come from hypoglycemia, I was repeatedly tested for that, and always came out fine. So I basically lived with them since my teens. Terrifying, but I didn't want to be addicted to valium, which they gave at the time. So I 'grinned and bared' the attacks. However, I don't want to deal with them on treatment!
Wow!! Great information from everyone. I appreciate ya'll taking the time to relate your experiences and suggestions. I like the meditation/hypnosis ideas and Goofydad's taking of valium just for the attacks. Of course, if the doc thinks I need to do something daily to stave off the attacks then I'll listen to him.
I just hate to take a daily ad for something that only happens once or twice a week and is a very recent occurence. I wonder if it could stop as soon as it started?
NYgirl - thanks for your kind words. I've been following your story with interest recently. It just seems so unfair for a company/person to treat you that way. Doesn't it seem like it's always the losers that are in power?
Forseegood - thank you so much for the detailed info. I found it a fascinating read. We on TX certainly have to put up with a lot, don't we?
I will say that besides those annoying panics I feel quite lucky with the sides. I deal with the bumps, but nothing as serious as I've heard others dealing with. And I feel very blessed not to have experienced the anemia many others have.
I pray everyone has an easy shot night tonight.
I just hate to take a daily ad for something that only happens once or twice a week and is a very recent occurence. I wonder if it could stop as soon as it started?
NYgirl - thanks for your kind words. I've been following your story with interest recently. It just seems so unfair for a company/person to treat you that way. Doesn't it seem like it's always the losers that are in power?
Forseegood - thank you so much for the detailed info. I found it a fascinating read. We on TX certainly have to put up with a lot, don't we?
I will say that besides those annoying panics I feel quite lucky with the sides. I deal with the bumps, but nothing as serious as I've heard others dealing with. And I feel very blessed not to have experienced the anemia many others have.
I pray everyone has an easy shot night tonight.
5mg is the smallest dose for Lexapro. I’m on 40mg per day. It will take a couple of weeks to kick in. It will not have a highly visible effect. What will happen is you’ll think back and say “I don’t feel bad any more”. That’s a nice thing to happen.
Anise
I didn't really find any BAD difference between 10 and 20mgs (except I was tired at first getting used to it). I don't think just 10 would have worked for me either...being American I am a More the Merrier type gal and I think 20 was MUCH better ;-)
Talk nicey nice to the doctor...and let him know a friend of yours is on 20 and doing great and you feel...blah blah. Don't EVER tell him I said it on the internet or the white jackets come out. Man I HATE how my doc looked at me when I said that my first week LOL. Now I Just say "well I researched this and..." :) He thinks i'm really really smart now hahahaha.
Mrs O
Thank you for YOUR kind words. I hate this place (work) I truly do. Would hate it is even if I WASNT doing treatment. I just want to be treated nicely and with RESPECT and that is not possible here....it seems for the people who work the hardest get treated like CRUD but the girls that flounce around and "chat" and flirt up the bosses well.......you know THEY make out fine.
I tell you - even if I had the energy I couldn't do that. Just not me. Don't get me wrong I just don't think women with their boobs hanging out at work winking at the guys is something I could do. So I sit here poor and treated like garbage and save my boobs for somewhere else ;-) Just kidding you know.... ???
I didn't really find any BAD difference between 10 and 20mgs (except I was tired at first getting used to it). I don't think just 10 would have worked for me either...being American I am a More the Merrier type gal and I think 20 was MUCH better ;-)
Talk nicey nice to the doctor...and let him know a friend of yours is on 20 and doing great and you feel...blah blah. Don't EVER tell him I said it on the internet or the white jackets come out. Man I HATE how my doc looked at me when I said that my first week LOL. Now I Just say "well I researched this and..." :) He thinks i'm really really smart now hahahaha.
Mrs O
Thank you for YOUR kind words. I hate this place (work) I truly do. Would hate it is even if I WASNT doing treatment. I just want to be treated nicely and with RESPECT and that is not possible here....it seems for the people who work the hardest get treated like CRUD but the girls that flounce around and "chat" and flirt up the bosses well.......you know THEY make out fine.
I tell you - even if I had the energy I couldn't do that. Just not me. Don't get me wrong I just don't think women with their boobs hanging out at work winking at the guys is something I could do. So I sit here poor and treated like garbage and save my boobs for somewhere else ;-) Just kidding you know.... ???
She prescribed me 5 ml per day. I think is to low? May be because I am just start a treatment?
illona
Remember that nobody here is a Dr. I’m just a poor slob with a chemical imbalance. Oh yeah, and HCV. I went through about 6 months of trying different AD’s to find one without sx. Finally found Celexa did a good job. Lexapro is a new and improved<i>?</i> Celexa so my doc switched me over and it’s doing a good job.
Your Dr may be starting you out with a low dose to check for sx or maybe 5mg is all you need. Don’t be like Nygirl and myself, that more is better. I hope that a low dose is all you <i>need</i>.
Nygirl.
You don’t need to wink at me and I won’t treat you like garbage. Hint.Hint.
Dana (male)
Remember that nobody here is a Dr. I’m just a poor slob with a chemical imbalance. Oh yeah, and HCV. I went through about 6 months of trying different AD’s to find one without sx. Finally found Celexa did a good job. Lexapro is a new and improved<i>?</i> Celexa so my doc switched me over and it’s doing a good job.
Your Dr may be starting you out with a low dose to check for sx or maybe 5mg is all you need. Don’t be like Nygirl and myself, that more is better. I hope that a low dose is all you <i>need</i>.
Nygirl.
You don’t need to wink at me and I won’t treat you like garbage. Hint.Hint.
Dana (male)
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