Feeling weird

[KatieRichie94]

I had a good therapy session and I was feeling well

Then I decided to get a coffee around 1130 pm and now I'm feeling weird . I'm feeling shallow breathing and like ill faint. I felt like I would faint all day. What is this?

[austinluck21]

coffee naturally makes you nervous, which heightens anxiety which would cause your chest to tighten. It's tough, but you might consider cutting coffee out of your diet.

[Pearwig]

Dear Katie, Several of the books which I have read to help with my depression/anxiety recommend giving up coffee. Although tea also contains caffeine, for some reason it doesn't produce the same negative effects. Perhaps "mindfulness" and counting up to gradually increasing numbers during each breath would help with the shallow breathing? With best wishes, Pearwig.

[denvajade]

You probably need to get your doctor to do a blood sugar test.

[KatieRichie94 in reply to denvajade]

I just had mine tested a couple months ago

[Tatjana84]

How's your blood pressure? Coffee brings your blood pressure up, maybe you should look in to it

[KatieRichie94 in reply to Tatjana84]

My blood pressure is never over 124/80

[Dev1122]

I sometimes feel like this. I did yesterday. I usually just sit and find a happy place and do my breathing because feeling like used to make me have a full panic attack. Meditation helps with anxiety. Regularly do breathing routines and meditate. Anyway I hope today is much better for you

[SteveSparks]

Hydration is much more challenging with stress and anxiety... Drink lots of water!

[jrcnpg]

Some thirty or so years ago my wife, now an ex-wife, rang me from work with a degree of frustration and anxiety in her voice. I was takig care of our first son, she having elected to resume work ratherf than staying at home to see to him leaving me with little choce but to stay hme and the first thing I asked her was that at what time did she have her first coffee of the morning. She said around two hours back so I told her to have her coffee now and ring me back in ariound an hurs time. She did so and was perfectly fine then. It was the caffeine that had made her feel unwell and disorientated. Caffeine is a kind of drug, I suppose, and so to cut it out of the day is a process which takes time.

[librarylil]

Decaf or regular? I can't drink coffee. Or eat chocolate. It gives me terrible anxiety and that shaky feeling for the whole day.

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Anxiety!!! I just drank some juice and ate and now iam feeling the same way i feel faint like flu feeling and hard to breath. I hate it.