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Post by Epiphany on Jul 25, 2013 1:11:45 GMT
I am obsessed with my breathing. It's been like this before meds, and in fact, led me to take meds. It got worse on meds, though....right now, I can barely hear myself breathing [odd for me], it is slower than usual, and feels like it could stop, even though it does not. Is this what normal breathing feels like? It's almost like normal. No tightness in chest or anything. No odd sensations. Nothing. It's very odd, and it's like I have to force myself to breathe. Yet again, I forget what automatic breathing is like.
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Post by Epiphany on Jul 25, 2013 11:41:05 GMT
Waking up to shortness of breath [wonderful] and shivering [mostly because it's freezing in the room]. I find that the cold worsens my symptoms.
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Post by Epiphany on Jul 25, 2013 17:49:09 GMT
Anhedonia= freaking TORTUROUS. All I feel like doing right now is going back to sleep. Nothing's really interesting to me. I'm hoping I don't have to take any supplements to change anything, as I'm afraid of another bad reaction, I may have to either a: start taking Omega 3, b: start taking Licorice Root, c: Start taking both. Hopefully in the next month, all the symptoms improve, I have school starting August 22nd.
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Post by Epiphany on Jul 25, 2013 19:55:59 GMT
Today's the first time in 3 months that I am allowing myself to breathe normally, or that I have noticeably breathed normally without too much heaviness or blowing. It feels weird and like I am not getting enough air. Am I that used to overbreathing?
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Post by paroxeTina on Jul 25, 2013 21:06:27 GMT
Theelt, I empathize with you. That feeling of not being able to breathe was what led me in 2009 to take medication. It was the biggest mistake of my life ... Yes, it is true that in drugs that feeling disappeared, but I have paid a high price . In my case, and looking back in time, perhaps, there was anxiety and stress as the doctor said. At that time I had an uninhabited house about 4 years ago, I thought I rent the house would be a good option to earn extra money, so I started to fix and clean the house, but I found that there were cockroaches, for I bought a lot of products to kill roaches, spray the spray every corner and up the walls, the chemical smell was unbearable ... a few days later I started to get that feeling of shortness of breath, or not remembered as one breathes. I went to the doctor, I auscultated, doctor said everything was fine, it was anxiety, stress, etc. .. and taking medication.
Currently I think I could have been intoxication the chemicals used. many of them can cause depression, anxiety. etc ... At that time I did not relate the lack of air with chemicals...
Big hug
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Post by Epiphany on Jul 25, 2013 21:14:22 GMT
Hugs to you, Tina. I made the biggest mistake of my life taking Zoloft and now I hope daily that I don't have to continue the rest of my life as an anhedonic zombie. I'm done with Zoloft now but the effects are still there. In other news, I get to hear my neighbors above us having a fucking nightmare of a kid crying and screaming, "MOMMY!!!!!!!! WAHHHHHH!" Uggh. What a flat day. I haven't felt this flat since April. I hope it passes soon.
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Post by paroxeTina on Jul 25, 2013 23:16:27 GMT
Epiphany, do you have you stolen Moiu cat?, Lol
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Post by Epiphany on Jul 25, 2013 23:24:50 GMT
Not yet. LOL JK, I just thought the kitten was cute. I have a cat of my own, her name is Luna. She tries to bite me when I am on the forums.
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Post by Epiphany on Jul 25, 2013 23:36:10 GMT
Ahh, thank goodness my mom brought home Gatorade PREFORM Thirst Quencher. It really helps with WD. Vitamin Water's "Revive" seems to do wonders to help WD as well.
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Post by Epiphany on Jul 26, 2013 0:21:13 GMT
Jaw and left arm pain, shooting pain= OUCH, this is painful. Scares me into thinking about cardiac conditions. I think my period is coming as well, all of my symptoms tend to get worse before my period and during, and I am due next week.
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Post by Epiphany on Jul 26, 2013 12:02:35 GMT
Actually got 7 hours of sleep last night. Thank goodness! I needed it.
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Post by Epiphany on Jul 26, 2013 22:03:11 GMT
Spent an hour searching for supplements at the store, looks like I will have to order Licorice Root online. I never intended to stay out, but something told me to do so and the Holocaust Museum near me was open. It has been a dream of mine to work at a Holocaust Museum. I talked with the runner for a half hour, gave him my name and number, and I will probably be volunteering there soon on weekends. With that and a poetry camp on my plate next week, there's a good chance that from now on I'll be really busy.
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Post by Epiphany on Jul 27, 2013 1:44:24 GMT
Had a bad panic attack tonight due to squeezing in the left side of my back and left arm pain, I had bad shortness of breath and I thought I was gonna pass out. My legs felt so weak that I thought they were gonna fall out from underneath me. Floaters right now are constant and annoying the crap out of me. Still dealing with shortness of breath and left arm/neck/jaw pain. I hate being so freaked out about cardiac issues. I regret the day I ever Googled 'heart attack symptoms' back in April. Well, I don't, because if a family member or myself ever has one years or so from now, I know what to look out for....but it just freaks me out. Anxiety= high. Probably because of PMS.
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Post by petu on Jul 27, 2013 1:55:25 GMT
I was reading on another forum, think it might have been SA, where someone was in withdrawal and was getting classic heart problem symptoms. He went to the doctor and got his heart checked and did a stress test and it was fine, so he knew it was the withdrawal symptoms. Could you go and get your heart checked to put your mind at rest?
PMS often causes withdrawal symptoms to get worse. I hope you feel better soon.
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Post by Epiphany on Jul 27, 2013 2:04:57 GMT
I have gotten my heart checked out in the ER via EKG....and they said that unless I was on hardcore drugs, I am not having a heart attack. No one will take me seriously.
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