Neuropathy

[katt]

My daughter has been battling :don't know what to call it: for 12 years, many doctors, many theories,
her symptoms start with a jolt like feeling like someone jumps out at you from around a corner, followed by double vision,heavy head,heart racing,feeling of extreme fear..sometimes she has many in one day,,,followed by insomnia... Does this sound like a panic attack?? any ideas? anyone have the same symptoms?

[Swampfox]

Yes, it's very classic of Panic Attacks but they are not neurologically founded that I've ever heard of. I have had them for years and found that I didn't like the way medications left me feeling. i didn't want the panic attacks either. I didn't really have help for the attacks but realized that it was an undercurrent of depression as well as not feeling like I belonged anywhere. It actually would get worse if I was around others who felt that it was their duty to control my life. Ya love them but they don't recognize where their boundaries were supposed to be. Mine manifested as swiftly as what you described - especially when "threats" of social situations, including first days of school, dances, even parties were looming.

Most Shrinks don't know how to treat it properly. They want to medicate, medicate, medicate rather than find the source of the problem and work on life skills to work around it. It is a feeling of sudden dreadful foreboding.

I had to make my own work arounds. i was always everywhere I had to be 30 minutes or more early. I was always the first to arrive at parties. I was always the first one in the classroom. If I had to go to the grocery (even to this day) I either go very early in the morning or when the crowds aren't there... and I often call to ask how busy the store is before I leave. Whatever works.

I was also in a group for Anxiety. 95% are female, 5% are everyone else. We often have a Safety Person - can't go anywhere with one - even if it's a child or a dog. Gads! A crowd coming to the house?! Send one person at a time in their room to talk to them if they don't handle it like I do. But, then again... I get stressed with any crowds after awhile. I'm better in the country than the city, etc.

You have to get them to refocus out of the panic - even scents can help with that.