I've been having panic and anxiety attacks since school which was about 10 years ago! I go through good and bad periods. I try to manage it with 10 mg of Lexamil at night and 5 - 20 mg of Urbanol if it gets really bad sometimes 30 mg a day! I can't keep feeling like this!
I'm absolutely terrified that I faint in public and can't control the attack itself!
Any advice out there?
What Drs are you seeing?
These are psychological issues and, based on your other post, they could be the result of neurological damage from a B12D due to being a vegetarian.
Has your B12 been tested?
Like any symptom, these can be measured to assess severity. You are already doing this to adjust your existing dosages. When you start on B12 keep measuring them everyday. Stay on your current meds and don’t stop until directed by your Dr.
Things may seem to get worse for a day or three after each B12 jab as your body tries to gorge itself on the B12 is has been missing. New symptoms may also appear.
Keep a logbook of your symptoms and severity assessments and treat the B12 jab as day zero each time. You may see a pattern of symptoms appear for 2 or 3 days after each B12 jab.
Realize that you are monitoring a roller coaster ride so you need to compare day 1 to the previous cycle’s day 1, etc. to see the improvements. Any day for day comparison in the same cycle can be very confusing.
Repair of Nerve damage is very slow, in months and years, so set up a regime of medication and stick with it. Record any changes to meds in the logbook as well.
Once you get B12 set up, you will also need folic acid and a daily multivitamin to support the B12, but B12 has to come first.
Also check for any issues with gluten or dairy intolerance but on initial thought these are not suspected because the vegetarian diet you were on.
You should also see benefit from B12 oral supplements as the intrinsic factor ( IF ) from the parietal cells in your stomach should still be working to recycle B12 in your gut.
Provide a list of all your symptoms and scores to your Dr each time you visit as evidence the Dr will eventually need to increase your B12 dosage. It will also help your Dr get past the “I’ve got a totally looney hypochondriac on my hands” phase that we have all gone through when presenting new symptoms and asking for more frequent jabs.
I used to have panic attacks. This is how I stopped them. I made a weird discovery, and it doesn't cost anything, used to, I'd wake up in the middle of the night run grab a Benedryl and gulp it down with a glass of water, it would subside in 10 seconds, I thought the Benedryl was what stopped it. We were on a trip one time and I didn't bring the Benedryl, so in the middle of the night when it hit me, I jumped up, ran in the kitchen, and I took a ginseng and gulped it down with a glass of water, in 10 seconds the breathlessness went away, just like it did when I took the benedryl, and I felt normal. It was then that I realized that the water was the thing that worked and if you look up hyperventilation, it says dehydration is one of the main causes of it. No joke, when I looked back, it was on those days, that I didn't drink much water that it happened, or if I ate something super salty that would trigger the dehydration and attack that come with it. Do 3 things, drink plenty of water and liquids, even 3 or 4 glasses during the day, eat much lower sodium diet than you have been, eat plain foods because fast food is loaded with sodium,
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seeing neurologist, advice on b12 injections welcomed…
