Is anyone else's anxiety/panic feeling constant???

[KellyAnn016]

I am almost always experiencing some kind of odd feeling in my head... or some other symptom. My brain seems to be always wired and it is impossible to concentrate, let alone all the other symptoms of anxiety (nausea, derealization, blurred vision). This happens all day and night..sometimes only a little sometimes a lot, but it never goes away completely. My doctor suggests that this constant feeling isn't normal for anxiety, as anxiety comes in waves. Does anyone else experience a constant wired, anxious feeling? He suggests that I see a neurologist... or some doctor specializing in internal medicine. Thoughts?

[tedium]

Read some books by Peter Levin about PTSD and trauma.  You will probably see yourself there.  I have PTSD.  I have had multiple recognizable traumas so that has helped with diagnosis.  But, there really is no cure and I am finding that the medications help for a time and then your fears begin to include being about the medication side effects, tolerance, etc.  For people with GAD and PTSD who know they have had specific traumas, it helps to have a starting place to point to.  However, many people can have PTSD and trauma feelings and thoughts like the ones above even from pre-natal or birth trauma that they don't about.  Or something that may have happened to you when you were too young to remember or your brain may have blocked it from your memory.  As an adult, after going through a lengthy life-threatening trauma, I had "forgotten" very threatening parts of it until later.  I have had flashbacks about particular events during that situation as late as 10 years afterwards.  It is shocking.  The brain initially does this to keep us capable of responding in emergencies.  However, the brain hides a lot from us.  We may not even know why we are having panic attacks, crying, and reliving the trauma on certain dates or by being triggered by things we see or hear.  I nearly died at birth.  My mother and I were both about to die.  My father was signing the paperwork to allow the doctor to take my life and save my mothers.  I was born a few minutes later.  However, I have been traumatized all of my life just from this birth experience.  I was a stoic, anxious toddler.  My entire life, I mainly remember ALWAYS waiting for something bad to happen and always predicting how I would survive it.  Because I was already at a high level of anxiety from birth, any time I feel traumatized by anything (whether a real trauma or my brain being triggered), my anxiety is higher since birth than the average person.  All of our brains are just as different as they are similar and even scientists know very little about our brains and their triggers.  Anxiety causes many different brain and body chemical reactions every single time.  Trauma shrinks our hippocampus, messes with our vagus nerve which is probably causing the fainting of one poster, and millions of other symptoms.  As someone else stated, it is a lifelong battle once it starts.  I am on medications, but I don't like them and I'm not sure they haven't made things worse over time.  They are also designed to make you need them.  IE:  Research shows that if you have ever taken any antidepressant, you are much more likely to have thoughts of suicide forever after....especially if you get yourself off it.  Check out Peter Levine's work.  Also, the work of Jon Kabat Zinn.  New research is showing that changing your own brain (and these two have CDs to help) and exercise works very well.  For me, this is so hard.  I have their CDs.  I've read some of their books.  But, I have trouble making myself do it as much as I need to.  I also have difficulty exercising any more.  I don't know why.  It feels like every minute is an hour and I am exhausted.  But, I have to say that the more I have studied PTSD, the more I know our doctors don't understand it at all.  

[Barbiehaught]

I have fibromyalgia along with other medical problems and I'm multiple meds but for the last few months I am having constant stomach pain and fibromyalgia pain and now I just feel a constant state of panic like I want to jump out of my skin. I feel like between that and the pain I am going crazy. Anyone else going through anything like this?

[kdredsea]

I've been in a high state of anxiety fior days--can't sleep, can barely sit still, and want to crawl out of my skin, like,  you, Barbie.  I just want a moment of levity or ease and none seems forthcoming.  It makes me feel like i'm losing my mind, so it helps to know I'm not the only one.

[Erinseekshelp]

I don't have an answer hon but I can empathize with you. One day around 2 years ago I had a really bad panic attack then 3 days later I was having another one and tried to go to work. Half way there i was freaking out turned around called my husband on Bluetooth and headed home where I wrecked just down the road from hyperventilating and losing consciousness. It wasn't bad but I made home once I came to my husband ripped my shirt off because I was sweating so bad I could hardly walk. Now I panic every day all day and I don't know why most of the time. Everything sets it off. It gets so bad I just want to end it but I don't want to leave my family. I'm seeing a new psychiatrist Thursday and have an appointment with obgyn to see if it could be hormone imbalance. I'm trying everything. If I get some answers I'll let you know . Just know you are not alone with this. I felt like I was.

[Ashpelletier]

Currently going through a phase of what feels like living in constant panic attack mode and I'm so thankful I found this thread (even though it was started 4 years ago), growing up I always is anxiety but it manifested itself as nausea and such, not so much panic attacks. As I'm getting older it's terrifying. I often get the "head buzzing", floaty feeling, chest tightness, spaciness, hard time breathing, etc. which only makes my anxiety worse, all I can think is "why does my brain feel funny is this normal? Am I about to have a seizure is this what it feels like? (I've never had one but for some reason worry about that when my head feels funny) is something about to happen to me am I going to faint or am I suddenly going to stop being able to breathe?" I worry constantly that something is wrong with me, that I need a brain and full body scan to put myself at ease that I don't have something wrong with my heart or in my brain but I'm too afraid of needles and hospitals and doctors to consider mentioning anything and have them running precautionary tests just for panic attack symptoms. The physical side of anxiety is so scary and so very real, I'm so sick of living in a constant state of a panic attack and only being made more anxious because of the symptoms and the cycle of those two feeding off of each other never ever stops.

[rykerjem]

I am living in constant panic terror. it comes through my stomach. I cant stay in my own skin. It is not once in awhile it is all the time.. I cant function. I hyperventilate.. No meds touch it.. I have seen many doctors.. been to hospital.. I fear I will end my life..

[ashcooll]

Hey I am having this same problem... Also not able to talk to people.... And feel dizziness,also some constant conversation is going on in my mind.... And I started hating lights in the room and voice of television... Also I am fully aware of what's going on... While sleeping.. And unusual dreams of people smiling... And I get woke up... And start meditation to overcome... As I don't have much friends to talk to... Even I feel alone in my college... I am taking medication but it's not working... So I try to listen to songs.... Thank you

[Sarahlou31xxxx]

I live in constant fear.
I get stomach pains,like a choking lump feeling in throat/chest ..thirsty /skipped/extra beats /feeling like something bad is about to happen,feeling like I need to run away.
Sorry your feeling like this,it's awful