Can Excessive Gas Causing Anxiety and panic attack ?

[Bhaskor]

Hi all,

I want to share my experience with anxiety and gas. I have been suffering from acidity for a very long period. The stomach acid use to flow back to my mouth and cause burning feeling with sour taste. Nowadays a small part of whatever i eat or drink returns back to my mouth. It seems that food can easily return back to my mouth these days.

Just a week earlier I was feeling hungry and so I had some cornflakes with milk. After sometime the milk started returning back to my mouth (something like curd having bitter taste). Suddenly I was feeling boating an too much gas. After some time the gas made it difficult for me to breadth. My whole body became warm and suddenly my heart started pounding and i felt like i am going to die. I feel like i want to run away somewhere :cry: :cry: :cry: .

This all repeated yesterday, as after dinner i drink a glass of "Trifala" and tried to sleep. After sometime i felt boating and the same symptoms returned, short breath, tight stomach, sudden warmth, pounding heart. I took a Zaptra LS 12.5 tablet after that.

From my experience i am sure now that i am normal when i don't feel gas, but when i feel gassy or boated my anxiety strikes. Is this dangerous and life threatening.

At last, sorry for my bad English. Also, please help me to overcome this issue.

Thank You all for your advise and support in advance.

[Paxiled]

Gas doesn't cause anxiety.  Nothing causes anxiety but the way we think about things.  Being anxious can cause gas, because we don't digest as well when we're nervous, we don't chew our food properly, and we often eat poorly when we're anxious.  I don't know if you have an anxiety problem, but you do have an eating problem.  Trifala should be taken as directed, not the way you're taking it.  It's an internal cleanser, and you obviously don't want to go to bed with that working in your system.  Internal cleansers often cause bloating and can cause gas.  It sounds like you have reflux, which means you're probably going to bed too soon after eating, or reclining too soon after eating.  It also sounds like you have a very common problem, which is that you don't do dairy very well.  Try cutting out dairy and see if all this goes away.  

[Bhaskor]

Hi Paxiled,

Thanks for your reply. Any suggestion for the anxiety part as I don't want to continue Clonazepam and Paroxetine any more.

[Paxiled]

I don't really know if you have anxiety, but it sounds like someone believes you do.  I just read your more recent post, and it sounds like you've been put on a lot of medication and then taken off a lot of medication.  Stopping meds can be as hard on you as starting them or your original problem.  The two drugs you mention above are two of the most difficult of all meds to stop taking if you've been on them for any length of time, and have to be tapered off of slowly and carefully, and you probably wouldn't want to do that with both at the same time.  From your new post it sounds like this started because you worked yourself past your limits and probably were eating very poorly and at bad times as well.  Instead of doing the logical thing, which was taking some rest to let your body and mind recover, you ended up getting diagnosed with all sorts of different things by all sorts of different doctors and were put on all sorts of different meds and now you're body and brain are all confused.  There's no way for anyone here to diagnose you or treat you, but it appears to me you have to start over somehow to get back to when you felt fine and overdid it and didn't listen to your body telling you it was too much for you at that time.  Where do you live?  

[Bhaskor]

I live in guwahati, Assam, India

[Paxiled]

I thought you might live in India.  My suggestion, given all you've been through with doctors, is to take a different tack and find a doctor who practices ayurveda as well as medicine.  Your own ancient form of medicine might be a way to get off this merry-go-round you've gotten yourself on.

[Paxiled]

And see a practitioner who will explain things to you, such as the proper way to use triphala!

[Paxiled]

And just for the record here, you shouldn't even be taking internal cleansers such as triphala when you're on medication -- it can wash it out of your system before it has a chance to be absorbed.  I think you just need to learn about eating and working and balance and then let time work its course.

[Paxiled]

And just to add one other thing, a very good remedy for stomach problems is another traditional Indian remedy, licorice, but with a Western twist, which was taking the part out of it that causes harmful side effects.  It's called DGL in the safe form.  Good luck.