Stress/anxiety/nocturnal panic attacks/high heart rate

[Braylie]

I am feeling so discouraged lately. I've finally found a medication that seems to work for my day to day anxiety. I was feeling better, not back to "normal" but better. Anyways, today I woke up, I guess lighting hit pretty close to our house while I was napping and the thunder clapped. I don't remember hearing it I just know that I woke up to my heart rate high and it just kept climbing and climbing. I couldn't talk myself out of it I just had to sit back and rid it out. I felt dizzy and shaky. I was convinced by heart rate was never going to come back down, like I kept telling everyone I needed to go to the hospital. All in all probably lasted 10 minutes. Coming down little by little. I guarantee if I would have actually checked with my monitor it would have been every bit of 140bpm. I haven't one like that in a very long time. I just feel like what's the point in taking my meds if I'm still going this struggle this bad, all day I've felt off and I'm terrified to go to sleep. Anyone else care to share stories of high heart rate attacks (those help!) or encouraging words for my medication because it's throwing me into a depression and I just don't feel like this is the life I want for myself and my kids and they would be way better off without me "going crazy" all the time.

[Ladybug9]

You experienced a severe panic attack and they can take quite a bit of time to bring us back down to normal! It can almost feel like a heart attack happening! Anxiety medication is never a cure all and can't work 100%, not for anyone, but it is definitely helping more than we sometimes even realize. I was taking Klonopin but realized when I have a panic attack or I"m having severe anxiety, I need something fast. So my doctor switched me to Xanax. It doesn't last as long but it works quickly. Whereas, Klonopin or Ativan has a longer half life but doesn't work as quickly. Please let your doc know about what happened. I"m sure you can find the right medication for you. Keep me updated if you don't mind? I know how horrible your experience was!