So recently, like within the past two weeks, I’ve been having massive amounts of anxiety.      Just over these past three days I’ve realized that I’m having like 20 individual anxiety attacks throughout the day.  It’s just like ongoing waves of anxiety that wash over me...then subsided...then wash over me again.  

My anxiety attacks are, right now, primarily about:    Being alone / dying alone / never having my own family I’m 36-F, being stuck in an isolated community that I am consciously digging my feet into more and more everyday with my job. 

My anxiety makes me feel like my blood is on fire...burning and tightness in my chest, tingles in my hands, my stomach tightens, headache, tremors, hands shaking....I feel the anxiety clawing it’s way from my chest up into my throat. I get dizzy. 

This just keeps happening over and over and over and over.

Now a few days ago, I’ve woken up each night at 4:30 AM.  Like the anxiety woke me up. I was asleep. How is that even possible??   Then I just lie there with my heart beating out of my chest and can’t sleep but I’m so exhausted.  

I called for an appointment for my dr to give me an anxiety medication. He gave me two Zoloft and Clonidine.     The Zoloft will take two weeks to kick in.  The Clonidine is to be taken as needed.    The Clonidine helps a little ... so if I wake up at 4:30 AM for the next few days/ weeks I guess I’ll try taking the Clonidine. 

Has anyone taken either of these? 

Has anyone else had nocturnal anxiety attacks?  Panic disorder?    Multiple anxiety attacks in a day?

If you do have multiple attacks in one day, are they all the same? Are they all as bad as each other or are some throughout the day worse than others? 

 I had a crappy childhood............. so I know that it has something to do with the anxiety attacks.  I’m just struggling to cope with the sheer number of anxiety attacks I’m having lately ... I’ve had this type of thing happen to me a few times before at different points in my life.  But this time seems to be the worst so far....


Thanks in advance for you suggestions, comments, and kind words.