How to relax your self when this happens

[Mike4660]

I have been dealing with this for a year now have been to the er 5 times, lung,heart, allergist like most of the post I have read on here. I feel like I can't Breathe and my chest gets tight happens to me when I wake about mid afternoon and around 830 - 1000 pm. Worst feeling in the world, does this sound like anxiety

[Mike4660]

Thanks for the advise I do have a pcp I went yesterday she wants to start me out on pax 20 mg and then go back and see her in 6 weeks to see if it needs to be tweaked.

[Brentm48093]

I've had similar episodes, all caused by self-created stress, exacerbated by my smoking and caffeine intake. Do you have a Primary Care Physician? If not, get one and start to see them on a regular basis. ER's can/will do nothing to offer relief or diagnosis for an Anxiety/Panic disorder (trust me, I know) and the only way to really determine a diagnosis is to track you symptoms, diet, exercise and stress levels on a daily basis, and providing your PCP with this data. Xanax may help relieve that late night anxiety episode, but if these incidents are occurring at similar times on a regular basis, that would point to something external environmental, dietary or behavioral trigger.
Start keeping a food log, an exercise log and an anxiety attack/symptoms log. Keep date and times and when's and where's and provide that info to you PCP.
Best of luck, Mike

[michigan07]

It could be anxiety. Not that you have to be for anxiety to take place but is there anything in your life that may be bringing upon stress right now ?