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i used to get attacks at night if i am sleeping alone. when i was living in the dorms in college i lived alone and everynight was horrible cuz i was afraid something would happen. they haven't been too bad for a while now but i occasionally get them. it makes it hard to fall back asleep cuz i am afraid i will have another one. What i have found that helps is to just try to brush it off. i will wake up suddenly in a panic and then i might turn on the lights and read a book for a while just to calm myself and try it again. if u try to ignore them they won't come. if i worry about them, they come, if i just tell myself to sleep and to ignore them. i sleep like a baby.

I hope this helps!

Hi, My panic attacks happen at night. It seems that when I am not busy doing something they hit. I was taking Effexor ER and that helped. I was able to go off of it, but needed to go back on. One night after taking it, I was awakened with a bad panic attack. I am afraid of taking it anymore as I think my body reacted negatively to it this time. Is this possible? I will say since I started this along with the supplements when I feel one coming on, I can ward it off, it takes alot of work, but so far so good. My fear is sometimes I feel like my heart is racing. Is this normal? Will it get better?