Aloha and I am glad to be writing this. About 4:30 this morning I had this feeling of I must get out of bed. I could not explain the feeling but it was a urgency and a very dark feeling. I keep thinking I was having trouble breathing, just uncomfortable in my skin. I was thinking about life and death, I don;t want to go this way, do I need a ambulance, etc. I was pacing to the bathroom, bowel movement may help. Washing my face, brushing my teeth. No relief. I was having a panic attack. I know this because of being a nurse, I had a pulse-ox at home and my sats were 99%. If I did not have that I would have keep me thinking it was my breathing. I was not sweating, but just very uncomfortable.
I think it is the pain medication as I look back. I was given oxycontin, oxycodon, a blood thinner. I know about oxycodone and that it is highly addictive. I have been taking all of the meds on schedule to help control the pain and no problems till now. During my panic, I deceided to skip those meds and take a previous med hydrocodone, and I had a anxiety med that I rarely take, clonazipam. I took those instead and asked my partner to follow me down stares for a shower. I have been slowly coming out of the panic attack and much more relaxed. Boy do i not want that feeling again. That is so scarry and I was so close to needing to be put out by a ER doc or ambulance driver. I am so lucky to have the clonazapam in my house and to have taken that. The felling of hoplessness, death, and impending doom. My first experience with anxiaty was no fun but I am ok, I think I will try to take the pain and ditch the oxcontin, codones and prevent that from happining again. Write soon. David
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Teresa Trusty
10/6/2011 05:30:13 am
Your first panic attack. Welcome to my world big brother. Panic is my middle name. Oxy is dangerous, so hurry up and get better and get off that stuff. It scares the crap out of me. Any word yet on your lab results? I miss you. Get better real soon. Give John a hug. We miss him too! Sis
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9/18/2017 07:09:08 pm
Just like you, I also experience waking up in the middle of my sleep because I had a vey drastic dream, and it feels really uncomfortable. In my dream, I couldn't move and it seems like on one hears my scream. My sister said it's because I didn't pray before going to bed that's why. Maybe, you should pray before you sleep so you will not have a panic attack after having a bad dream as such. When I started praying, that incident doesn't happen all the time anymore.
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9/4/2016 02:10:26 am
When we are suffering from any sever disease it is always good to keep the medicine which are meant for that treatment. We cannot say when our problem raises in our body that may be in the middle of the night when we are single. So, taking precaution which are said by doctor and maintaining the advice and use of medication will help us.
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11/27/2016 05:10:45 pm
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7/28/2017 11:10:11 pm
This is one of the reasons why I don't like waking up in the middle of the night. There are so many bad thoughts that come into my mind that will prevent me from going back to sleep. Some may say that this is a mind over matter thing, but we should also believe that this can also happen in real life. I don't want to scare people but I have experienced this already.
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9/30/2019 03:12:09 am
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