Oh Boy In the middle of an attack ( atleast i hope its an attack )

The past maybe month my panic attacks got real strange, chest pain in middle of chest dizzyness or maybe light headed can't tell, leg pain, trouble breathing, i have a LONG history of panic attacks since age 14 and i am prescribed 1 mg of xanax 4 times a day, .5mg used to help now it takes about 1.5 mg and chest still hurts for awhile it seems like the xanax dont work till 2 hours after, i'm very scared, anyone else get these symptoms? Thank you so much i dont have a car or i would go to the hospital now, and im too embaressed to call an ambulance i did that too many times....someone help, thanks

 

   Hey Scaredofswine, i recently started celexa 5 1/2 weeks ago and the first few weeks i did feel the light headed, elevator feeling in the back of my head, also it was irritating because it felt numb and un-workable, those lasted a few weeks, although im not sure about the withdrawls im guessing those same symptoms would be because of the celexa and also the leg pain, numbness, dizzyniss all sound like what i had when i started the med. also the pressure of the chest and arms sometimes feel numb and very small pains. in my oppinion i think thats the panic trying to make you mad. All of those symptoms sound like anxiety to me, but if you are having/had an attack and you want medical attention do not be imbarrased about calling an ambulance or going to er because its your body, they have to look at you and examine you no matter what they think. and they might think anxiety/panic is silly but all of us here know its no laughing matter, i was quite with mine alot because i felt "imbarrased" or thought people would think im crazy, but i learned to have myself treated the way i wanted to be treated.

Hope you get treated quickly and start feeling better

Ty

Thanks TY and Thanks Stkitt, well after hours of suffering i made several calls to alot of family around 6:30 am i couldn't take it no more, and finally my brother in law woke up and to me to the E.R, my BP was 127/87 and pulse was 102, this was still after almost 2mg of xanax, and continued to have some chest pain but it did get a little better, so they did a chest xray, and a E.K.G they said the E.K.G was good and they said i had costochondritis, it's like inflamation of the ribs and breastbone and sometimes can feel like a heart attack, but they said it has nothing to do with your heart or lungs and that it could take a few weeks to go away, so that was some decent news i didn't mind hearing, they prescribed LODINE 300 MG and ATARAX 50 MG, but i'm very leary on medications, I am just gonna continue with my xanax, And TY just be careful with that celexa, it did seem to help a bit at first but then wow, my attacks became stronger especially coming off, but like i said i think i weened off too fast i went from 20mg to 15 to 10 to 5 to about 2.5 all within about 3 weeks to a month, my brother also has alot of the same symptoms he is 41 and just found out he has high cholestrol, that is my next step to have my cholestrol checked, I just hate that head pressure and spaced out feeling i get anymore with these panic attacks, and left arm pain and numbness, my pysch said anxiety can go through different phases and symptoms, but hope all of you get better, thank you for the kind words, i appreciate it.

Thanks alot scared, thats exactly what they told me to do is work on that stuff, I really appreciate it, But here is a relaxation video i thought that i would share with any of you that may be having a panic attack or just want to relax and get some sleep, i listen to this almost every night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs5fj8Pdgtw