Anxiety attacks?

Question

This year in school has been exceptionally hard for me, considering I started a week late, and I am in an Honors class that I dont want to be in. So anyways, this year I started to get these weird feelings, like I went to homecoming and felt sick out of nowhere. I would all of the sudden feel like i was extremely nervous and I would feel like I was going to throw up. So anyways, as the school year has progressed they have gotten worse, ex. Ill get them at football games, trick-or-treating, and even threw up when I went to the movies with my cousin and siblings. So I couldnt take it anymore, I went to the doctor and they told me it was anxiety attacks. I was perscribed to Aterax, but it doesnt seem to work, in fact in one incident it made it worse. This is seriously preventing me from enjoying my life, and Im tired of missing out because Im scared I will throw up and ruin everything! Help?! (Ps. If it helps to know I am 15 and a sophmore in highschool)

Answer 1

Hi SweetDreams

Here are some ideas to heal yourself. Learn to control your stress especially.

Symptoms
Anxiety is an emotion that may feature excessive worry, sleep disturbances, shakiness, ritualistic behavior, fear of being alone or in public places, impatience, easy distraction, and great apprehension concerning the welfare of loved ones. Associated physical symptoms include racing pulse, heart palpitations, shortness or rapidity of breath, sweating, dry mouth, numbness and tingling of the hands and feet or cold/clammy hands, lightheadedness or dizziness, fatigue, trembling, indigestion, and diarrhea.

Cause
Anxiety disorders occur in people of all ages, but appear to be more common among women. The occurrence of an anxiety or panic attack is often unpredictable, but it may be associated with certain situations such as driving a car. The exact cause is complex, involving constitutional factors, emotional stress, biochemical imbalances, and environmental triggers. In women, hormone imbalances can cause anxiety. Therefore, hormone assessment is essential. Amino and fatty acid imbalances can also play an important role in triggering anxiety attacks.


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Natural Cures

Diet: Assess your diet to reduce excessive consumption of stressor foods such as refined sugars, honey, maple syrup, or cow`s milk products. Consume vegetable soups, broths, and a wide variety of green and yellow vegetables. Add more complex carbohydrates such as whole grains, beans, seeds, and nuts.

Flower Essences: Flower essences can prove very helpful in managing and helping to eliminate anxiety. Use Aspen for apprehension, foreboding, and fear of unknown origin while Mimulus is for fear of known things, shyness, and timidity. Red chestnut is used for excessive anxiety and over caring for others. Rescue Remedy® (combination formula) is for general stress from anxiety, and Rock Rose is helpful for coping with terror and panic from known fear.

Herbs: Panax ginseng has a tonic effect on the adrenal glands, improving blood flow to the brain and reducing the stress associated with mental/emotional issues. Valerian root, an herbal tranquilizer and muscle relaxant, is another good agent for calming the nervous system. It helps balance mood swings and is not habit forming. Valerian-hops combination formulas are good daytime sedatives because they don`t interfere with reflex actions. Passionflower is another mild sedative that helps reduce anxiety, high blood pressure, nervous tension, and muscle tension, and encourages deep, restful sleep. St. John's wort, a highly popular remedy for depression, has proven effective for anxiety and mood swings as well.

Homeopathy: Aconite, Actaea rac., Drosera, Calc carb., and Sulfur are all useful homeopathic remedies for dealing with anxiety.

Hypnotherapy: Self-hypnosis helps to impart to the mind imagery designed to bring about deep levels of relaxation.

Meditation: Develops the mind`s ability to stop anxiety at its source.

Nutritional Supplementation: The following supplements have all been shown to help reduce feelings of anxiety by calming the nervous system: calcium, magnesium, vitamin B complex, 5-HTP, pantothenic acid, and adrenal and kidney glandulars. GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), an amino acid, can also affect mood by increasing levels of the brain neurotransmitter serotonin (a mood regulator).

Alternative Professional Care
If your symptoms persist despite the above measures, seek the help of a qualified health professional. The following professional care therapies have all been shown to be useful for treating and relieving the symptoms of anxiety: Acupressure, Biofeedback Training, Bodywork (especially Massage Therapy), Environmental Medicine, Guided Imagery, Hypnotherapy, Magnetic Field Therapy, Naturopathic Medicine, Orthomolecular Medicine (for a self-care approach, we recommend the book The Mood Cure by Julia Ross), Qigong, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Yoga.

Best of health to you

Answer 2

You need to make sure you don't physically have anything wrong with you by getting a medical checkup (if you haven't had one already). It sounds like you are having severe anxiety maybe with some panic attacks. I had this happen in school to the point where I became physically sick from the anxiety and from always being in a huge rush. Medications didn't help me, but if you are under doctor's orders, you need to follow those.

What really helped me was taking 15 minutes out whenever possible to do some yoga poses and take some deep breaths. Learning to practice breathing and notice when the anxiety was about to occur was the most important part to controlling it. Try some of these breathing exercises. During the day, when you are stressed, try to take deep breaths in through your nose and think about relaxing things. Also, it is very important that you try to get enough sleep! Nap if you can find time to squeeze it in, 15 minutes will do the trick. Best of luck!

Answer 3

I'm not so sure that is anxiety exactly. Generally when you have an anxiety attack, you think you can't breath, your fingers, feet, and other extremities feel like they are tingling because you are hyperventilating and cutting off oxygen to your brain.
To me it does sound like you are having some type of emotional irritability or stress, but I'm just not sure it's anxiety, I truly believe your nerves are on edge for some reason, but I'm not sure the anxiety medication is the proper one for you. Getting nauseous isn't usually a sign of anxiety necessarily, but could be a mild form of depression or something else. Perhaps you should get a second opinion about the anxiety and the medication they have you taken for it - especially if it made it worse at some point.

Answer 4

I don't think you just have general anxiety. You obviously are having social anxiety disorder with panic attack. Hydroxizidine is not a good choice to treat this as this is a mild sedative that has anti emetic properties for some, which means it is supposed to make you not vomit. You really should be taking Paroxetine which is branded as Paxil in the US but available generically worldwide for next to nothing. Paroxetine is an anti-depressant, anti-anxiety medication that really helps with panic attacks. It stops the breakdown of a chemical in your brain called Serotonin. This chemical is necessary to experience joy and happiness as well as experience a feeling of normality. Ask your Physician about starting this, you must take it every day and it take about 3 week for it to start working, so don't get discouraged.

Answer 5

You should continue talking with your doctor or therapist about what you can do, you're paying him money after all.

One answerer mentioned diet and nutrition. This may be helpful for you. Also limiting caffeine consumption if this is something you are taking a lot of.

Regular exercise, you may find, might help alleviate some symtoms. Your doctor can explain why these seem to work for some people.

Answer 6

Maybe you should try different meds or a psychologist. Doing exercise or yoga helps. I was recently on Lexapro (an antidepressant) and it helped with my anxiety. A drug like Xanax or Clonazapem can temporarily help, but not in the long run. Do some research on the internet, too. Hope you get better.

Answer 7

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