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Posted by mike17 on 3/22/2003, 1:22 am, in reply to "new symptoms" First and foremost welcome! Don't worry about the spellllllling Take Care and God Bless, //\/\\ike --Previous Message--
Hey Bernie, 
, all we care about here is helping people not correctging spelling and grammer. Anyway how long have you had these attacks? Do you have any phobias? Have you had an increase in stress (especially at work) lately?
Besides the Klonopin are you on any other meds?
My advice to the Klonopin (Since I take it too and get extemely drousy with it also) is to break the pill in half and see how that works out. That way you will be less drousy and you can take it as needed. Myself I use a pill cutter, and take quarter amounts of .5 as needed.
As for support groups I am going to repeat myself from the previous post. Call your local hospital and ask for an "Anxiety Support Group". Support groups are great, because you can meet people who suffer the same issues/symptoms as you and find closure. Besides making new friends, you will become a stronger person.
Anyway I am a male. I don't consider myself a weak person. And joing a support was one of the greatest decisions I ever made, and don't listen to anyone that tells you differently!!!
Those people believe in meds and meds only masks the problems. Therapy and Support Groups will fix them. Once you stop taking meds, if you haven't gotten any therapy you will be back at square one again. Anyway please keep posting, and if you want you can click on the hyperlink above and email me too. I do check the board more frequent than my email because I help moderate it.
: Hello everyone who suffers from these hellish
: attacks. I am currently going throuhg one
: as I type (excuse the spelling &
: grammar-I'm sure you know why)The reason
: I'm on this sight is to get some insight
: on the symptoms. Currently my heart is
: feels like it;s going to pound out of my
: chest ,I;m hot & sweating and now I am
: getting a new one -my throat is dry and it
: feels like I'm being lightly strangled.
: Does anyone get the strangling sensation
: or is it something else?Usually right
: about now i would have been in my car
: driving with the windows down and circling
: a hospital waiting it out. But by a
: hospital I feel safer just in case. To be
: honest I always thoght support groups were
: for weakminded people. Please don't take
: offense to this comment ,cause I now plan
: to join one and soon. I have to get back
: to my old self. I was on paxil and
: wellbutrin. They made me feel like i was
: in a dream state, not good when your a
: sales person! I'm currently on klonopin
: 5mgs. It makes me drowsy and spacy at
: times but I am sticking to it. As far as
: I've researched its safer than aspirin.
: sorry for writing to much but i'm trying
: to break the habit of the hospital
: drive-bys. Please let me know about the
: strangling sensations. thanks
:
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