Severe Anxiety Attacks

[steelersrule83]

I am 36 years old, a year and a half ago I had a severe anxiety attack that lasted around five days. When they get that bad for me it is wave after wave of anxiety hitting me. I was put in Lexapro 20mg and Busiprone 10mg and I was good for a year and a half. They cut my Lexapro back to 10mg and around 8 weeks ago I started having anxiety issues. So they bumped my Lexapro up to 20mg again and bumped my busiprone up to 30mg. But because they I was getting dizzy they completely took me off busiprone.
Last Friday I started having wave after wave of anxiety hit me. I have took two Ativan since then and they put me on Clonazepam .5mg. I am just wondering why this all hasn't went away yet like it did a year and a half ago. I feel normal at times, mostly at night, but getting thru the day is horrible at times. Can anyone identify?

 

[FinneousRex]

Sounds like you have an anxiety disorder now, my friend. I got it too, it blows. I’m working on trying to reprogram myself. I’m unmedicated and suffer through my issues without support. I’m trying to literally recondition myself not to have anxiety. It has worked slightly so far. But it is hard. Sucks when you’re afraid of your anxiety cause you’re giving yourself anxiety by being afraid of having anxiety it’s like a seventh circle of hell situation. I know it all too well. My theory, if the meds aren’t working, then you gotta change something within yourself. Like training a dog to not get anxious during thunderstorms or bark at everything in the yard, it’s reconditioning.

But you got the community here to help support you!

 

[Erin_Liz]

Sounds like you have an anxiety disorder now, my friend. I got it too, it blows. I’m working on trying to reprogram myself. I’m unmedicated and suffer through my issues without support. I’m trying to literally recondition myself not to have anxiety. It has worked slightly so far. But it is hard. Sucks when you’re afraid of your anxiety cause you’re giving yourself anxiety by being afraid of having anxiety it’s like a seventh circle of hell situation. I know it all too well. My theory, if the meds aren’t working, then you gotta change something within yourself. Like training a dog to not get anxious during thunderstorms or bark at everything in the yard, it’s reconditioning.

But you got the community here to help support you!

I am also unmedicated and trying to cope and push through the anxiety attacks that I get. It all started a little over a year ago for me. I can go awhile doing great and then, BAM it'll hit me. Sometimes a few days in a row (like today). It's been a rough day, took me about 2 hours to break through. I ended up doing a workout and found that helped!

 

[Certate]

It comes and go's, at least that is how it is for me.

There is times I look back and wonder what the hell I was having such bad anxiety about.

It does pass, just try and not let the anxiety feed itself, say to yourself its just a feeling and it will pass over time.