Suddenly wake up in the night

[Charlie1994]

Hi has anyone experienced waking up in middle of night with a headache, feeling sick, dry mouth? It's just happened to me and now got a full blown anxiety attack .. So scared got brain tumour

[Agora1]

Hi Charlie1994, I use to wake up in the middle of the night experiencing a headache. I remember how I use to wonder why I would have a headache at night. Like you I would go into an anxiety attack. Those were the days that I normally suffered from either migraines or tension headaches. I also didn't know how important hydrating was in order to avoid these headaches. With you having a dry mouth with the headache, I would tend to believe that might be the contributing factor of the head pain. You need to try and rid yourself of the fear you have built up. It's only going to make the headache worse. If you have some medication you could take for the pain plus a big glass of water, you may be able to sleep it off tonight. Once you are back in bed again, try your deep breathing which will help reduce your pain level and your anxiety level. Try to get some sleep. Wishing you well come the morning.

[Charlie1994 in reply to Agora1]

Thanks a lot.. Still wide awake! Are you ok as still up? I have bad stomach lots of acid in there

[DizzyGrl in reply to Charlie1994]

Eat a bite of vanilla ice cream. It'll calm your stomach.

[Agora1 in reply to Charlie1994]

Charlie, I'm sorry you are still awake. What do you usually do for stomach acid? I hope the anxiety subsided some. When we get extremely anxious, the acid gets worse in our stomach as well. Hows your headache right now? Don't worry about me being up. I sleep about 5-6 hours a night and am up for 18 hours everyday.

[Charlie1994]

Hi I eventually got off to sleep about 4am.. I'll be shattered at work but I'm fine now .. Thanks so much / I do know I'm a hypercondriac and suffer anxiety so any sudden headache is a brain tumour and any chest pain is a heart attack 😐 X