Panic/anxiety.seizure?!
Question: I have been suffering from panic/anxiety and i am on several meds. for this but nothing is getting better. I have had 6 siesizure 2 i dont remeber i just fainted and has on, and the others i can feel but im dissconnected from everyone, I can hear whats going on with when this is happening. I have had a brain mri and eeg this was my second time around and they keep saying its normal.I dont think this is normal. However I dont know what to do ..Please if anyone has experienced this or has any answers please let me know.
Thank you,
Sunny
Answers: I have been suffering from panic/anxiety and i am on several meds. for this but nothing is getting better. I have had 6 siesizure 2 i dont remeber i just fainted and has on, and the others i can feel but im dissconnected from everyone, I can hear whats going on with when this is happening. I have had a brain mri and eeg this was my second time around and they keep saying its normal.I dont think this is normal. However I dont know what to do ..Please if anyone has experienced this or has any answers please let me know.
Thank you,
Sunny
No way.
I didn't think anyone else ever experienced what I did. But from what I read, we experienced the same thing.
I was in my early 20s when it started. The first thing that happened, which may or may not be related, was I got injured at a bar - some idiot slammed this chick into me - we smacked foreheads, and I went flying into a giant speaker, hitting my head again in the same spot. I had a huge bump but didn't go to the doctor.
Now this may or may not be related, but I sort of link them together cuz that's when the fainting started. I fainted 3 times - once at a convention center, once at a New Year's Eve party, and once while driving on the highway (!). Luckily, the highway one wasn't the first time because I felt it coming and knew to pull over before I lost consciousness.
The time I fainted at the New Year's Eve party I hit my head again in the same spot.
I had more incidents of "zoning out" where I heard people, but I wasn't really there. My friend would always snap her fingers to get me back. It was weird.
I had all of the tests you mentioned without finding a thing. I walked around with a heart monitor and would press a button every time I felt an episode coming on - yet they couldn't get anything conclusive.
The panic attacks and anxiety started AFTER the fainting episode, because I became afraid of the situations I was in when I fainted before. So I stopped driving and didn't like big open spaces with lots of people, like a mall or convention center. I stopped going to parties.
The best doctor I had though was a neurologist who wouldn't give up on me. I had a sleep-deprived eeg where you stay up all night and then in the morning fall asleep naturally while hooked up to the machine. He and I were both so relieved when he found something. What that something was we didn't really know - either extremely bad migraines or very mild seizures. I took Depakote for 1 year - an anti-seizure medication, I think. I hated it - I gained weight for the first time in my life. But I didn't have any more episodes so I stayed with it.
I moved to California and saw a different doctor, who said the Depakote was too strong, especially for results that were sort of inconclusive. He switched me to Paxil to treat the remaining panic disorder that arose from all this.
It's over 10 years later and I am fine - no fainting since, no episodes of spacing out, and the panic attacks are way better. I stopped taking Paxil after 8 years - it stopped working for me and getting off of it was hell - way worse than the fainting. But it's not hell for everyone. I'm on Prozac now for the same issues and I feel very much in control of myself.
They thought I had vasodepressor syncope - which is why I saw a cardiologist. I didn't have that, but you may want to go to a cardiologist to get tested. Also, just last year I was tested after having multiple miscarriages and I found out I have a blood clotting disorder called Factor V Leiden and MTHFR. This may or may not be connected either.
I know how scary it is to go through this, and I know how frustrating it is to keep going to doctors who assume you're crazy cuz they can't tell you what's happening. So you must be the problem. But you aren't. I went through the same thing. And with time, it just stopped for me.
Good luck, hon. I'll be thinking of you.
sometimes the side-effects to the meds are worse than the illness. Try reading the book Dianetics
If I would be you I would find me another doctor that does not sound good and i divinely is not ok either,go with you gut feeling if it does not look and feel right go see another doc.I had a problem like that ,they told me all kinds of stuff and they where wrong.So go and find your self another doc.
Good luck.
the meds might be taking effect on eachother. be honest and straight with your doctor and tell him the times and amount you are REALLY taking. you might just need a smaller or larger amount