Hey all so I had a pretty bad episode tonight and I was looking for some advice.  My story is 6 years ago I started getting bad anxiety and it ended up at the point where I was having what I would describe qs non stop panic attacks for around 2 hours coming in waves.

This lasted for about a week and I started on 40g of citalopram per day.  I cut that down to 20g of citalopram and have been taking that for the past 6 years.  I am glad to say it has been working as I have not had another episode up until tonight.

I have been getting a little sloppy with taking my citalopram, much more ireggular than I should be and tonight after only sleeping hours and alot of stress at work I started randomly started feeling anxious.

It started out at first like normal anxiety and I had two small panic attacks I was able to stay calm through. Then I had wave after wave of panic attacks for the next hour.  It felt like I was almost out of my body.  I panicked and rung emergency, I was really struggling to tell them any details about me, I couldn't remember my phone number etc.  I felt incredibly confused during this period.

Each wave lasted around 3 minutes and eventually after around an hour I slowly went back to normal.  I was wondering if anyone else suffers from anxiety like this and what strategies you use to get through the waves? 

 I have taken the next few days off work and will be tightening up my citalopram to take it the same time ever day.

Thanks for reading.