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My heart keeps me up at night!
I am a 27 female that has been on suboxone for 3 years. due to a car accident 7 years ago. I have back / spinal problems, numbness in left should that goes up into my head and every doctor that ive seen says its nothing. Within the last year i have been getting these panic attack symptoms like my heart will beat fast, my whole body will start shaking then i feel like im about to pass out or sometimes pee on myself im shaking so hard. The weird thing about it is it happens when im not stressed. im driving or sitting on the couch or laying in bed. Recently i havent been able to sleep in my bed because when i lay down to go to sleep (dead tired also) my heart will start pounding! if I get up and walk around somethimes it helps then ill lay down again and try and go to sleep. sometimes it will keep me up all night- I can't sit up and sleep or lay down and sleep. If I dooze off to sleep I will wake up gasping for breath. Now sleeping on the couch is doing the same thing to me. Do you have any clue what it can be. I have given up on doctors. The ones Ive seen has just prescribed me drugs that I wish I would have never have taken.
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Hi - it happens to me too some nights. Just as you describe. I have a blood pressure monitor and if I check when this is happening my BP is way up, but that is just one of the symptoms, not the cause. I can't work it out and neither can the doctors. They have given up - I just take a valium which helps me keep a bit calmer (Im a stress head) and helps keep panic attacks I have when this happens at bay, or at least keeps them not too bad. I've posted a couple of times but nobody has responded. I don't have any warning either - just go to sleep feeling fine and wake up a couple of hours later with the shaking etc. I also feel very cold and shivery,and need to go to the toilet (water) every 15 minutes or so for a couple of hours. It's not panic attacks, but it is something to do with the central nervous system. I do think food has something to do with it, and if I eat certain food that has been fed or grown with growth promoting additives I really do react like this. Not always though. Maybe we have to go on TV on the mystery diagnosis program. I'm 66 and have had heaps of these - they aren't heart attacks or warniongs so relax on that. best, Kev
Now that you mention it, I do wake up in the middle of the night very cold and I shiver hard, not the normal cold chills shiver but uncontrolably and it takes a little longer to stop your self from shaking than if you were just cold. I took one of my husbands klonopin's once and it took a while to calm me down from one of these attacks so I figured i wouldn't let myself get too depending on those, exspecially if they didn't work well to begin with.
No my back and should pain is from the car accident i had in 2002. But I get numbness in my right and left arm without chest pain and in my neck and back going up into my head. My heart does not skip a beat it just beats really fast right as I lay down at night and if I dose off i will wake up gasping for air and shaking. I don't have a doctor right now because I don't have insurance. I just wanted to make sure im not about to have a heart attack.
Have you talked to your doctor about this? This is something different from the shoulder pain, I would think. Have you noticed any skipped beats?
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