Hi all, I’m fairly new to the anxiety world and started having panic attacks daily that last several hours for the past month. I feel like my throat is going to close and not to be morbid…a huge sense of doom that I’m knocking on death’s door. I’m sure many of you have had this experience but I went to a doctor because I thought that there’s no way I’m making this up in my head. She told me everything looked fine physically and it is just amazing how your mind can blow things so out of proportion. I was prescribed Diazepam for a few weeks to help me get to sleep because when I lie down my throat feels worse and it starts panic all over again. I feel like the medication almost causes more anxiety than it helps because I can’t feel my throat at all and my body feels numb. I am going to see a psychiatrist soon and I was curious what peoples’ experiences were with different medications. I don’t know how to feel about Xanax either because of how it can become addictive, I’d rather be in the side of caution but I guess every medication has some sort of addictive tendency at that point haha. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!