Boozy anxiety

[CopingwithEx]

Anxiety through the roof after drinking last night for my friends 19th, feel like I can't breath and my heart is raging out my chest or beating irregularly, any advice? Feel so calm when I have a drink but feel awful today 😔

[Hidden]

I’m in the same boat my pulse has been all over the place at work just relaxing in bed and it’s at 90bpm which is normally in the 70s, been sick, stomach Problems, headache, heart racing and I can notice again which sucks. I’m just trying to relax and not worry about it or I’ll end up going back to the hospital convinced I am having a heart attack and wasting their time.

[CopingwithEx in reply to Hidden]

Aw it's so awful I'm the exact same feel like I'm having a heart attack, how can anxiety do this 😕

[Hidden in reply to CopingwithEx]

I know I am laid in bed and can just feel my heart pounding and it’s making me feel sick. Hate anxiety that normal stuff I used to do I can’t anymore as it makes me feel awful.

[CopingwithEx]

I feel the exact same, I've just started getting pains in my legs and thighs and convinced it's a blood clot😞 Actually hate anxiety!

[Hidden in reply to CopingwithEx]

Yeah I am sat here worrying and should I go to an emergency hospital as my heart rate has been over 100bpm while laid down and worried something else is wrong.

[CopingwithEx in reply to Hidden]

All ok with you?

[Hidden in reply to CopingwithEx]

I’m ok now, next day definitely feel a lot better after a sleep, hope you are too.

[MrK00]

I have this same problem too except my breathe feels short and sometimes like i cant breathe.

[MarkinLondon]

Hi Edmx,

You may be dehydrated.

I used to sometimes get this after a binge drinking session so I stopped drinking as most sessions were big, and that was 15 years ago. No more morning after huge anxiety, fear, pounding heart, paranoia, waking up with strangers, guilt remorse etc the list goes on.

Maybe cut down, but if like me you are unable to do this on your own then please go to an AA meeting, tbey are everywhere, the 12 step programme is a healing process that deals with a lot of underlying stress, anxiety and problems, gently helping you process them you learn how to reach and maintain an on going calmer feeling that alcohol only momentarily falsly gave us along with the hirribke hangover! For using alcohol for stress relief was just borrowing even more from the happiness of tomorrow, and it eventually stoped working! And the drink was bigger than the underlying anxjety problems that I was drinking on, I found a new life and an easier softer way in the rooms of AA.

Hopefully you are not like me and can reduce the amount you drink to not suffer this again. But, if like me you can not stop once you start then trust me as AA saved my life and when I go regularly (which I do) my anxiety is so much much less, and physically I'm much better and mentally less isolated if that makes sense? Don't know if this is relevant or not but wanted to reach out and write in case as I don't miss them mornings. Much love, and write me anytime if you want to discuss. God bless, Mark

[CopingwithEx]

Thankyou so much Mark for taking the time to reply, well done to you! Wish you all the best and if you ever need someone to listen write me too 🙂