T87
Member
I was 20 pounds overweight and went on the Adkins Diet (which was too brutal to follow) and soon after the SugarBuster Diet. I lost 20 pounds in three months! It was awesome.
One day I was eating breakfast with my buddy and ate some hash browns (up to this point ... I hadn't eaten many simple carbohydrates). This triggered something in me I can only describe as a massive insulin rush over my body. I thought I was having a heart attack, went home, and went to the ER. Everything checked out. This was 2003.
Since then I had occasional bouts with the "insulin rush" as I called them.
2005 came around and I was in the midst of writing a thesis, to no avail. It was horrible and I decided to see a doctor. He prescribed Adderall. Hot damn! I wrote the darn thing in less than four months! It was incredible! I started using the Adderall on a daily basis for a new job. I was fine with it until I started drinking caffeine with it. It made me high and I loved that!
2006 -- I was driving long distance and using my trusty Adderall/caffeine cocktail when -- BAM -- out of nowhere I had my first "panic attack". I was hyperventilating, heart rate was pretty elevated, and I "talked" my self down and found a hotel. Called my sister and she told me I had just had a panic attack. Oh, I stopped taking Adderall soon after.
So, since then I've been having "panic attacks". Little ones here and there and big ones once in a while. I've been to the ER several times in the past two years thinking I'm having a heart attack. I've been checked out as fine.
Within the past two weeks, I have been having this cloudy feeling in my head. It seems like pressure is building and I'm a little loopy. I've taken an aspirin and it seems to help a little ... I've also had a few beers and it's helped, also ... but all I want to do is sleep.
I want to see my doctor, but I think he thinks I'm a hypochondriac and won't assist me. I want to go to the ER to have a hypoglycemic test done, but don't really know how to ask. I've started taking Mg Citrate (400mg/daily) and thought it was working (actually, I haven't had the traditional "panic attacks" I've been used to since then). I'm kinda at the end of the road.
On top of this ... I'm being transferred from a relatively obscure job that I've been having for the past four years (in that I work at home most of the time writing) to a position that will require a lot of human contact and I'm totally freaked out that I'll have a panic attack in front of a colleague!!!!!!!
I'm not really sure anyone can help me with this ... but it is especially nice to know that there are others suffering with this affliction ... and having an opportunity to express my feelings to an audience of fellow sufferers is hopefully going to help.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!
One day I was eating breakfast with my buddy and ate some hash browns (up to this point ... I hadn't eaten many simple carbohydrates). This triggered something in me I can only describe as a massive insulin rush over my body. I thought I was having a heart attack, went home, and went to the ER. Everything checked out. This was 2003.
Since then I had occasional bouts with the "insulin rush" as I called them.
2005 came around and I was in the midst of writing a thesis, to no avail. It was horrible and I decided to see a doctor. He prescribed Adderall. Hot damn! I wrote the darn thing in less than four months! It was incredible! I started using the Adderall on a daily basis for a new job. I was fine with it until I started drinking caffeine with it. It made me high and I loved that!
2006 -- I was driving long distance and using my trusty Adderall/caffeine cocktail when -- BAM -- out of nowhere I had my first "panic attack". I was hyperventilating, heart rate was pretty elevated, and I "talked" my self down and found a hotel. Called my sister and she told me I had just had a panic attack. Oh, I stopped taking Adderall soon after.
So, since then I've been having "panic attacks". Little ones here and there and big ones once in a while. I've been to the ER several times in the past two years thinking I'm having a heart attack. I've been checked out as fine.
Within the past two weeks, I have been having this cloudy feeling in my head. It seems like pressure is building and I'm a little loopy. I've taken an aspirin and it seems to help a little ... I've also had a few beers and it's helped, also ... but all I want to do is sleep.
I want to see my doctor, but I think he thinks I'm a hypochondriac and won't assist me. I want to go to the ER to have a hypoglycemic test done, but don't really know how to ask. I've started taking Mg Citrate (400mg/daily) and thought it was working (actually, I haven't had the traditional "panic attacks" I've been used to since then). I'm kinda at the end of the road.
On top of this ... I'm being transferred from a relatively obscure job that I've been having for the past four years (in that I work at home most of the time writing) to a position that will require a lot of human contact and I'm totally freaked out that I'll have a panic attack in front of a colleague!!!!!!!
I'm not really sure anyone can help me with this ... but it is especially nice to know that there are others suffering with this affliction ... and having an opportunity to express my feelings to an audience of fellow sufferers is hopefully going to help.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!
.