This started a few nights ago and I’ve gone well over a day with no sleep twice now. Even when I slept a bit the other night it was awful. Basically, I’ll be so tired barely keeping my eyes open and as I close them and fall into sleep I get this rush of adrenaline from my chest, down my arms, and my lower legs and my heart races. It truly does bc I check it instantly with a pulse odometer. I’ll literally repeat this so many times and even the next day as I’m trying to get sleep. I’ve made myself so scared now that my body is trying to keep itself awake so I won’t die. Even tho I give in and try to sleep I can almost anticipate the feeling that it’s gonna happe. Hey Been to the er twice in a week and the doctor a few times. Xrays labs and everything is fine except last night when I went my blood pressure was crazy high. Doc said it’s from not sleeping and I have anxiety and insomnia. I feel like it’s something worse. The only other thing he recommended was to get a sleep study for apnea. That’s my biggest fear and now I’m so scared that I’m gonna eventually fall asleep and stop breathing or my heart is gonna stop. I don’t know what to do and a sleep study is so far away. I’m scared I won’t make it till then anyone else ever have these symptoms
Adrenaline rush every time I close my eyes to sleep
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Hi Joetaylor. The same thing happens to me a few times a week when I get in my final position to try to sleep. I'll then swing my legs over the edge of the bed put my head in my hands onto my lap and try to breathe deeply and slowly. When I've calmed down I'll either try to sleep again or get out of bed and go check my computer (currently for baseball scores) and try again. 90% of the time I'll be able to sleep but the other 10% I'll end up staying up most of the night and napping the next day.
Not as horrible as the situation you're currently in, but wanted to let you know you're not completely alone.
Not as horrible as the situation you're currently in, but wanted to let you know you're not completely alone.
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I had this happen last night its normal for your heart rate to be between 60 and 100 bpm and unless you have underlining health issues your heart isnt going to stop while your sleeping on top of all that heart attacks only kill people 10 percent of the time. I know sometimes that can be conforting knowlage but you have anxiety and you probably will think your the exception to the rules or the 10 percent. But out of 7 billion people on earth your chances are probably less then that. Of course with health anxiety you will look for every pattern and every reason to find to convince yourself it is possible and it is happening to you. But from what i know and people ive talked to I hear about these things alot and people go through them day to day or just once in a while or have at one time and have gotten over them most people will wake up and fall asleep and not even rememeber cause they don't over think about it. The good thing is you've been checked out and you know theres nothing qrong if its sleep apnea your going to get help if its not and its anxiety then its possible to get over it and you know nothing will happen. I do this in moments of extreme stress. You cant award your panic and over thinking with staying awake and checking your pulse cause thats just going to create a bad habit of doing it over and over whenever your pulse slows down to sleep everyones pulse slows down to sleep and everyones blood pressure raises in moments of stress the more you reward your negitive patterns with action the more your gonna focus on them and keep the cycle going . thats what ive learned anyways
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I dont know if you'll find anything i said conforting in my reply earlier but I wake up in the middle of the night sometimes also
I had this a few years back, on and off for a couple months. Like all the other heart and sleep related anxieties I've had it eventually went away. Just knowing that it's anxiety and not something else always helps me get through. I know that's easier said than done as I've spent the last few days and nights battling my latest fear that won't let me sleep and wakes me up in a panic at night-- that high blood pressure is going to give me a heart attack. Worst part is that the anxiety is what raises my blood pressure and then I feel it high and that lifts my anxiety into a panic attack. Been waking up in a panic the last few nights-- including right now.
I generally live a healthy lifestyle and diet (one thing I can thank my heart anxiety for), but I usually get through these states of heightened anxiety by commiting to make an additional improvement or recommitting to something I've been slacking on lately (cardio exercise at the moment).
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