CanadianChick
Member
Hi there
I wish I would have found this site so long ago. I was browsing Agoraphobia last night and saw this site and clickity click.....Here I am. I really don't know what to say here. I have read though and see there are many like me, which is sad but a relief :support:
I am 40 years old and started having panic attacks at 17. My 1st, was like many I have heard and read was a fast trip to the hospital with a Doctor saying "Go home! Just your nerves" and gave me pills(which I never took), and of course asking me how many drugs I had taken in the past
. Answer....NONE!
I had a great childhood, just a few ups and downs, so certainly nothing to blame there. I was married at 18 (still married) and after that, the panic started getting worse and worse until my world slowly came into my own home. I am a full blown agrophobic person. The only time that I have went any distance was when I had my children in the hospital and went by ambulance. I came home 4 hours after birth and I will say that giving birth was a breeeze toward the panic I suffer.
I do take meds, but took a long time to find the ones that work, but I won't even take so much as a tylonol as far as other meds. I hate taking them, even though I know they ease things. I can get outside and play with my kids and they don't even seem to know anything is wrong with me. They, at this time, think Mommy gets car sick. I must say though that when you live in a small place like I do, I feel like the town clown..:juggle: is my life!
Thanks for listening to me ramble...I do talk a lot and I kind of am the class clown type. But I also am a very understanding person.
I wish I would have found this site so long ago. I was browsing Agoraphobia last night and saw this site and clickity click.....Here I am. I really don't know what to say here. I have read though and see there are many like me, which is sad but a relief :support:
I am 40 years old and started having panic attacks at 17. My 1st, was like many I have heard and read was a fast trip to the hospital with a Doctor saying "Go home! Just your nerves" and gave me pills(which I never took), and of course asking me how many drugs I had taken in the past
. Answer....NONE! I had a great childhood, just a few ups and downs, so certainly nothing to blame there. I was married at 18 (still married) and after that, the panic started getting worse and worse until my world slowly came into my own home. I am a full blown agrophobic person. The only time that I have went any distance was when I had my children in the hospital and went by ambulance. I came home 4 hours after birth and I will say that giving birth was a breeeze toward the panic I suffer.
I do take meds, but took a long time to find the ones that work, but I won't even take so much as a tylonol as far as other meds. I hate taking them, even though I know they ease things. I can get outside and play with my kids and they don't even seem to know anything is wrong with me. They, at this time, think Mommy gets car sick. I must say though that when you live in a small place like I do, I feel like the town clown..:juggle: is my life!
Thanks for listening to me ramble...I do talk a lot and I kind of am the class clown type. But I also am a very understanding person.
