I posted previously about the ALS fears and was feeling better and fell asleep without issue. Then at 5:30 AM I woke up and my mind immediately felt like it was in hyper drive and spread to my toes. The twitches started and it feels like someone is standing on my chest. The weakness returned to my arms and legs and I feel like I can’t swallow. There’s no way I’m getting back to bed. This never happened to me before, has it to anyone else?
Anxiety attack woke me up
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Cuchculan
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There is a sleep condition were people are not fully awake and what you described happens to them. This goes back hundreds of years. The whole feeling of having somebody sitting on the chest. What happens is people want it to stop. Thus wake up fully. So they begin to try and move various parts of their body. The mind would be fully active too. Trying to process what is going on. Just thrown it out there as one possible idea as what it might have been. No idea if you were actually out of bed or still in bed when all this was happening to you. if you were out of bed, just ignore my words. because it is something, connected to sleep, that only happens when a person is in bed.
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Happened to me when I woke up this morning. My mind immediately in overdrive. So sorry.
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this sounds like a pretty textbook panic attack to me and, yes, unfortunately, they can happen in your sleep. especially in the very early morning hours when you're not in rem anymore. i'm guessing your heightened anxiety over ALS is the culprit.
i'm really sorry you're so anxious right now. consider therapy if it's something you're currently not doing. it really can be beneficial for people like us.
i'm really sorry you're so anxious right now. consider therapy if it's something you're currently not doing. it really can be beneficial for people like us.
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welcome to the forum! it's awesome that you've got an appointment coming up! it really is a game-changer!
I hope so! I need to get over this feeing that I’m never going to feel the same again. Like it feels like I’m never going to want to eat or sleep again, like there’s a ball of tightness in my head that I can’t get rid of. Like hyperactive. Counting down till Friday.
i have semi-regularly whats seems stomach nose panic attack when I first wake or when it wakes me after I am awake it is fine and I go back to sleep later but am always anxious when i go to bed because I am afraid it will continue to happen