DrugBuyers.Com: Social Anxiety

Nadeya,

Yep, sounds like Anxiety disorder to me. I had almost the same symptoms. I was more or less just edgy during the day, but then the night time anxiety began and got progressively worse over time. I would go for days without sleeping because I just couldn't shut down my brain long enough to get any real rest. All I did was worry, not just about serious issues in my every day life, but also about things that should have had no direct effect on me at all. I just chalked it up to insomnia, but then it started effecting me in the daytime, too.

I would get dizzy, nauseated, shortness of breath to the point where I felt like I was about to pass out, then it escalated to vomiting, it was just horrible. If I were to get an occasional few hours of sleep here and there, I would wake up not being able to breathe and had this overwhelming fear that something horrible was going to happen to me or one of my family members. I just couldn't pinpoint the cause.

I went to my doctor, who assumed my symptoms were of a physical nature, because I've been treated for low blood pressure and low blood sugar in the past. So I went undiagnosed for close to a year before they finally figured out that I was suffering from anxiety/panic disorder.

I think my breaking point was when I was in the supermarket with a cart full of food and, all of a sudden, I just had to get out of there! I left the cart full of food sitting in the aisle, ran out of the store and once I got out to my car, I was paralyzed with fear, which of course I had no rational reason for. I just sat in my car and cried, feeling like I was about to hyperventilate or vomit the whole time. The same week, I had woken up in the middle of the night having an attack, which I just could not shake the next day. I remember going to work and locking myself in the bathroom for close to an hour because I didn't want any of my coworkers seeing me like this.

When I finally was diagnosed with Anxiety disorder, my doctor said she had just read a medical journal about patients who were classified with having "nocturnal" anxiety, and she prescribed me 0.5 Xanax to help me sleep at night. I went through hell being switched from one medication to the next after that, which I posted earlier in the thread, but what you're describing sounds very similar to what I went through.

Good luck finding help, and if you have to, be VERY vocal about the medications your doctor might prescribe to you and keep a journal of your thoughts and feelings while you're on them. Hope this helps!!

~ Eeyore

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~ R.I.P. Darrell Abbott 12/08/04