Anyone feel like there mind is going a million miles a minute, and when you finally get to sleep it feels like a half sleep? And you keep waking up to anxiety feeling?
I've been doing great with my anxiety and just last night I woke up at 2am feeling anxiety in my chest and a feeling almost like there was too much air for me to breath. Everytime I took a breath the anxiety would fill in my chest. Everytime I would start to dose off BAM it hits again. Yesterday I had a really stressfull day at work and before I went to bed I just kept going over and over in my head the days events so I bet thats what did it! Man why do we have to be so sensitive?
sleep anxiety
Hi..I too suffered from that and still do a little and is VERY common. I would wake up in the middle of the night panicking..that was when mine hit the most. I will distract myself with music, t.v., books anything. Try to journal before bed to off load any extra stress or negative emotion. That helps alot... let me know if I can help. Laura 
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jenmelberg
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Scuba Joey
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Hello Everyone:
I have been having some of the symptoms that you have described in regard to sleep anxiety.I do not know if it is that or something else.The last week or so I have been having almost constant pain almost an achiness in my sternum-upper abdominal region.It is like a tightness,I also have been feeling a little nausea.Yesterday I worked outside most of the day with this uncomfortable feeling in my sternum.I went to bed kind of late.At about 2:00am I woke out of a deep sleep,almost startled awake.I did the breathing exercises, and tried some positive self talk,and eventually went back to sleep waking up in the morning with this discomfort in my sternum-upper abdominal region,and some nausea.I have had panic attacks after waking up like this before.The doctor started me on zoloft,and it has helped,but this almost constant discomfort in my chest area is a little worring.I have had many tests on my heart,and my doctor assures me that my heart is healthy, and I even had an upper digestive tract scope done April 2008, and they said that it was normal.Any suggestions
I have been having some of the symptoms that you have described in regard to sleep anxiety.I do not know if it is that or something else.The last week or so I have been having almost constant pain almost an achiness in my sternum-upper abdominal region.It is like a tightness,I also have been feeling a little nausea.Yesterday I worked outside most of the day with this uncomfortable feeling in my sternum.I went to bed kind of late.At about 2:00am I woke out of a deep sleep,almost startled awake.I did the breathing exercises, and tried some positive self talk,and eventually went back to sleep waking up in the morning with this discomfort in my sternum-upper abdominal region,and some nausea.I have had panic attacks after waking up like this before.The doctor started me on zoloft,and it has helped,but this almost constant discomfort in my chest area is a little worring.I have had many tests on my heart,and my doctor assures me that my heart is healthy, and I even had an upper digestive tract scope done April 2008, and they said that it was normal.Any suggestions
Hey Joey,
You can have esophageal spasms that feel like a heart attack. When I have a lot of anxiety, it goes straight to my stomach and I can have reflux and these nasty esopophgeal spasms. My gastroenteroligst calls them cardiospasms. Don't know if that is what you are experiencing, but since your heart and endoscopy were ok, this might be what is going on. As my gastooenterologist explained, it is "not in your head". Your esophagus actually can spasm and it can hurt like the dickens. I also can have nausea when anxious.
You can have esophageal spasms that feel like a heart attack. When I have a lot of anxiety, it goes straight to my stomach and I can have reflux and these nasty esopophgeal spasms. My gastroenteroligst calls them cardiospasms. Don't know if that is what you are experiencing, but since your heart and endoscopy were ok, this might be what is going on. As my gastooenterologist explained, it is "not in your head". Your esophagus actually can spasm and it can hurt like the dickens. I also can have nausea when anxious.
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Scuba Joey
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Thankyou Samcat;
As a matter of fact I forgot to mention that the doctor also has me taking Nexium for reflux,but like I said last year my endoscopy came back normal showing no reflux damage,or hiatal hernia.I thought that it might be a hiatal hernia what due to the fact that I am active into lifting weights as part of my exercise regiment.My doctor has me on 40 milligams a day of Nexium along with the zoloft, and have just started the program.Since starting the zoloft, and the program I have not had any major panic attacks,just some mild to medium anxiety.I also feel it in my sternum when I bend over sometimes. Thanks Again
As a matter of fact I forgot to mention that the doctor also has me taking Nexium for reflux,but like I said last year my endoscopy came back normal showing no reflux damage,or hiatal hernia.I thought that it might be a hiatal hernia what due to the fact that I am active into lifting weights as part of my exercise regiment.My doctor has me on 40 milligams a day of Nexium along with the zoloft, and have just started the program.Since starting the zoloft, and the program I have not had any major panic attacks,just some mild to medium anxiety.I also feel it in my sternum when I bend over sometimes. Thanks Again
hey everyone,
my name is Mariyah &'d im 15 years old this has also been happening to me &'d at times i feel like im losing my mind!i wake up &'d get scared that if i fall back to sleep i wont wake back up again! i dont know how to handle i had been doing so great with my anxiety until this started happening i dont know what to do i try so hard to get better but i just cant i go to therapy once a week every week &'d do exactly as told but it dont help! if anyone has any recomendations i would appreciate it.
my name is Mariyah &'d im 15 years old this has also been happening to me &'d at times i feel like im losing my mind!i wake up &'d get scared that if i fall back to sleep i wont wake back up again! i dont know how to handle i had been doing so great with my anxiety until this started happening i dont know what to do i try so hard to get better but i just cant i go to therapy once a week every week &'d do exactly as told but it dont help! if anyone has any recomendations i would appreciate it.
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Scuba Joey
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Mariyah,
Joey is right on. I do just what he suggested also and it really helps. I use my MP3 player, but if you have an ipod, use it. My husband downloaded the CD on our computer for me and copied it onto my MP3 player. So it is a real small device and if you wake up in the middle of the night, freaked out, you can do the relaxation exercises right there in bed. I also use it to fall asleep to most nights. It relaxes me and I conk out right in the middle of the tape.
Joey is right on. I do just what he suggested also and it really helps. I use my MP3 player, but if you have an ipod, use it. My husband downloaded the CD on our computer for me and copied it onto my MP3 player. So it is a real small device and if you wake up in the middle of the night, freaked out, you can do the relaxation exercises right there in bed. I also use it to fall asleep to most nights. It relaxes me and I conk out right in the middle of the tape.