3 AM anxiety

[[Buddie]]

Well, at least it’s been a few weeks since I last woke up to a panic attack. 8 weeks off lorazepam and I’m still dealing with physical and emotional side effects. It’s not as bad, but still bad. Typing this message a little after 3 AM, and wondering if I’ll ever be free of these side effects.

[[Buddie]]

Me too [...].  Everyday it is the same thing.  I wake up with raging adrenaline coursing through my veins at 3am every morning.  Today is no exception.  It is 430am here and I’ve been up for some time.

We will, eventually, be free.  It will take time.

[[Buddie]]

Me too [...].  Everyday it is the same thing.  I wake up with raging adrenaline coursing through my veins at 3am every morning.  Today is no exception.  It is 430am here and I’ve been up for some time.

We will, eventually, be free.  It will take time.

I’m sorry to hear that. It’s rough. That we’ll one day be free is the one slim hope I hold on too. But it sure is taking its time.

[[Buddie]]

3 is usually the time I wake up as well. Feeling anxious and scared and can’t go back to sleep. It comes in waves and I’m on day 4 right now hoping to catch a break soon. Is this daily for you?

[[Buddie]]

3 is usually the time I wake up as well. Feeling anxious and scared and can’t go back to sleep. It comes in waves and I’m on day 4 right now hoping to catch a break soon. Is this daily for you?

Sometimes fear accompanies the waking. I recently had a 3 am panic attack. But it’s mostly a sense of can’t lie still/can’t get comfortable. Lots of tossing and turning.

[[Buddie]]

I usually pop awake around 3-4 and then lay there, mostly fine except for the adrenaline and inability to get back to sleep.  Later, around 6 or so, I get the anxiety.  Not sure why later, but I do.  This morning it became panic, but I went a month or so without panic so that was good.

[[Buddie]]

3 is usually the time I wake up as well. Feeling anxious and scared and can’t go back to sleep. It comes in waves and I’m on day 4 right now hoping to catch a break soon. Is this daily for you?

Same here! I’ve been tapering .25 of Xanax that I took for 2 months. My doc didn’t warn me and I’m so upset that I didn’t research this medicine. Having a horrible time with burning skin and scalp, Panic attacks at 3am, increased anxiety unlike I’ve ever experienced, depression is setting in due to the burning and anxiety. I’m having to taper longer than I took the poison. Sometimes I have to pace the floor or go on long walks. It’s so scary. I pray we all heal soon. My spirit is broken. Bless you.

[[Buddie]]

I went through this. I am 7 months off now. It definitely gets better. The thing is this whole thing takes time and you just have to gut it out until things turn. They will turn. Without a doubt. You will put this behind you. I did. And I thought this was my life forever ... each day I woke up at 4 a.m. with a feeling I was being squeezed in my stomach and severe panic. The panic started leaving this month. it got better before it left altogether. Just hang in there. this sucks but the worse will be behind you.

[[Buddie]]

It does get better, indeed. It takes way longer than you'd like (because we want it to be better immediately, never mind lasting months) but it does ease up. I was waking up at 6-7 am wide awake with anxiety for a month, that is gone now. I still get woken up by cortisol/anxiety if I sleep more than 8 hours, and it is worse during waves,but it does improve.

[[Buddie]]

I sleep about 8 hours with the help of Trazodone and then wake up to inner vibrations and extreme anxiety, I have days in between where this doesn't happen, all of this made worse by taking Doxycycline for Diverticulitis, I was beginning to feel much better, fewer attacks and then I had to take Doxycycline, I finished the Doxy two days ago, and this morning no panic attack...hope this continues, no fun.