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| Maybe take a yoga class they teach you how to breathe and get quiet inside, plus it is good exersice. I have a stessfull life my self and my horse is currently lame in the rear still trying to figure out whats wrong spent a fortune. Was going to buy a horse but my crippled horse runs faster than most 8500.00 and less horses and is better trained. But learned than i cant control everything and in my business i have been lucky to hirse some really good people.
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Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | cow pie - 2014-04-02 11:13 PM Yes I refused to take the meds and gave them to my husband and then divorced him all better now
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Location: Somewhere over the rainbow | My daughter dealt with it for years. It was debilitating for her. She was on meds. She eventually felt the meds not working and her attacks were breaking through the meds. Tried the different therapies.
What did work for her was a miracle, removing from her diet any and all caffiene...even chocolate. Anything with even a trace can and will trigger it for her. Her last bout was when she accidently drank a root beer not suspecting it would have caffiene. The attack was so bad she was hospitalized.
Caffiene may not be your trigger but maybe log all food intake by amounts etc...could be something to it.
She is not on any medication now and has no symptoms. |
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  Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | That is true too.....caffeine is not a friend to anxiety and panic. |
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Location: Midwest | LRQHS - 2014-04-03 12:32 PM That is true too.....caffeine is not a friend to anxiety and panic.
sugar too.... drink water. No soda. |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | barrelracr131 - 2014-04-03 12:39 PM LRQHS - 2014-04-03 12:32 PM That is true too.....caffeine is not a friend to anxiety and panic. sugar too.... drink water. No soda.
Says, the coffee drinking queens lol...... |
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Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Do what we say, not what we do lol...
Alcohol is bad. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | 3KissHit - 2014-04-01 1:44 PM
I recently experienced a panic attack at work. It was both scary and embarrassing. I was short of breath, lightheaded and my feet and hands were numb and tingling. I immediately scheduled a doctors appointment, because I knew I needed help. They put me on paxil and xanax, which I am hoping would help. But I don't want to be on drugs for the remainder of my life or for an extended period of time.
I recently got out of a 5 year relationship where I had to move and basically felt like I was starting all over. I was alright for awhile but recently they escalated badly from minor anxiety to constant anxiety and occasional panic attacks.
Riding the horses use to help me the most out of anything. But I tried riding Sunday and felt anxious and paniced. Which I knew was translating to my horse.
Has anyone else had experiences like this? How did you overcome them?
I used to have those... I fought them off with weed.... But weed became so much of a hassle dodging the police I switched to booze and became an alcoholic.. |
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| I was diagnosed with PTSD in 2009 but didn't feel the true effects until the last few years. Freaked me out and scared me to death! I literally thought I was having a heart attack! Panic attacks at work, home, while I was riding, playing with the kids, it scared me so bad I became fearful of everything, getting in the truck to go to work, sending my kids to school " I know it sounds stupid" but talk about panic/freak out. They prescribed me effexor, paxil and so on. The effexor worked for a very short period of time and then started making me worse, then I just completely quit having emotion! I realized I had not cried in more than 6 months :/ "my kids always bring tears of joy to my eyes" so needless to say the medications went in the trash. I deal with it day to day, my way is #1 talking to God, #2 is big deep breaths all the time, not in your chest but breathing deep in your stomach and stretching your lungs. So many of us that deal with stress/panic/anxiety don't realize we breath in our chest while sucking in our stomach out of tension, it wont help, actually it makes it worse. Try this; breath deep in your stomach/lungs for several breaths, you will finally feel yourself take a deep breath/sigh and release some of the tension, don't stop there keep breathing deep, the more times you sigh and release tension the more relaxed you will become! You will feel your chest loosen, your ribs wont be clinched up, your shoulders will loosen up. I have had them long enough that I can spot the signs a mile away and deal with it immediately, have not had a panic attack in at least 6 months "thank God"!!! I know its a hard to deal with and this is not a cure but I hope it helps you, good luck and God Bless!!! |
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| I have had 2 close family members suffer from it. My daughter was put on a prescription short term, in which the side effects were worse than the anxiety.....so not good there. We did some counseling, but numerous things written here are helpful. What we found that helped thhheeeee most: 1. You must learn to to talk to yourself in a positive manner, "it's just a panic attack, though uncomfortable, it wil not kill me, and it will pass". 2. A mulit vitamin and added magnesium is of great benefit......the counselor we used told us many with anxiety are low on mag. Just like a horse, the mag lowers your adrenaline response and helps a lot. 3. Plenty of sunshine and exercise :) |
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