Nocturnal anxiety

[Jack-77]

Hello guys. I have been suffering from anxiety and stress for a long time now. Ever since i was starting out my teens. I'm 19 now and struggling to make it in college. I am also a hypochondriac so every little thing worries me more. I get one symptom and i assume the worst. Lately i have been having seriously bad nocturnal anxiety. Just as I'm falling asleep it feels as if my chest and arms and my whole upper torso is vibrating i guess i should say and I wake up breathing heavily but it goes away after about ten seconRAB. I used to do this back in high school when i was highly stressed and i calmed down a lot and now I'm doing it again. Just as I'm falling asleep it's kind of a rush feeling. I wake up taking in a deep breath and my upper torso feels as if it is still asleep. Lol Im not sure how to word it. I do it when I'm highly stressed and I was just wondering if you guys have any tricks to help me fall asleep.I recently had a doctors visit and all my tests came back normal for some other symptoms i was having which totally went away after the doctor. (hypochondriac kicking in) she said i was stressed. (and she's right!) and gave me zoloft. I've never used any kind of drug before like this and I don't want to take it and have worst side effects than the anxiety. Any ideas on that also? Thanks guys.

 

[HappilyMarried]

hi, I tried Zoloft...yuck. I also am a hypochondriac. I am 57 and have your symptoms. Zoloft is in the SSRI family. I do not know what that means. But I do know that ssri's don't work for me. 6 months ago i started vibrating!. I also am a vibronaught. I went to the neurologist and he sent me the the shrink. the shrink sent me back to the neurologist.to make a long story short, the shrink put me on busprine twice a day and ativan at night. when i wake up for from a nap or sleep at night, I still feel my body vibrating. the mad twitching that started about the same time has stopped. It was all over my body.it started with my index finger going off all the time. now it 98% stopped. I would start with the compulsive thoughts every time i twitched or vibrated. I feel better than I have in ages. I really think anxiety is the greater part of it. I am afraid of going off the ativan and have all the twitching come back. I know I am obsessive compulsive. however not severe though.the vibrating was horrible. Just recently, my brother told me that his legs were vibrating also. he also lives with lots of stress and is a PHD botanist. The muscle twitching was in my legs, eyes, even tongue. I only get the occasional twitch now. I did not want to admit to anxiety, but the proof may be in the pudding. hope you are better. So talk to a shrink about Busprine. it has few side effects. stomach ache easily fixed with tums at the beginning and a bit of woozy for a few minutes at the beginning. takes 3 to 6 weeks to kick in.good luck