7-22-09
I'll start this off with I am a 22 year old male. I live in Denver, Colorado and was in a car accident almost 2 years ago. I was under the influence of alcohol, (not proud) and was driving home. I was in a serious accident involving the guard rail. I wasn't seriously injured just a swollen ankle and a bump on the head from hitting the window. I wasn't wearing a seatbelt. I was fine after the accident besides my swollen ankle and the bump on my head. It was about 3 months after my accident that i got my first anxiety/panic attack. I was driving on the highway which was nothing new to me and felt a very very strong feeling of light headiness, dizzyness, and my heart was beating fast. I didn't no what it was. After making it to my destination I never felt the same driving again. which i rarely did so I went to the doctor. They said i had a "anxiety attack". Now about a year and a half later after 4 different medications i've decided that I want to be "medication," free. I've recently been able to drive to certain distances (not far) but in a safe comfort zone i guess you can call it. The other day I was driving and had a really bad anxiety attack. It had felt like the first time that i ever had got one. I hadn't felt that bad in awhile, and now it seems like it has started all over again. what can i do about getting over the driving anxiety? I mean i'm 22 years old and want to live the rest of my life without having this driving anxiety.
Hi and welcome to the site
Ok here goes first and foremost you need to know that anxiety is not dangerous in itself everybody experiences it, anxiety disorders are a bit different tough you can find on this site quite a bit of information about it, as for medication goes I would say that its a good decision on your part to go free from it I would suggest a couple sessions with a therapist or psychologist I'm quite shure this would be beneficial to you.
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Suffolk
thanks for the comment. i just was out trying ot conquer the anxiety and felt really strong anxiety, i had ot call some one to keep my mind off of it. going without pills is really getting to me
Evening
I hope that you have not decided to stop your medication on your own, if so...thats a big no, no if you were taking benzos such as valium or xanax or any other kind of benzodiazepine, believe me you want to do that under medical supervision.
The Withdrawl effects can be VERY overwhelming
hi,
thank you for respnding. I was prescribed xanax, but only for as needed. I dont usually take them everyday. just when i feel the anxiety comin on. so..., would you think that it would be tough for me to quit them "cold turkey?"
Hello Denver nice to ear from you
You should never stop a medication on your own accord, especially with a benzodiazepine (Xanax) as the withdrawl can be quite unpleasant I assure you.
XANAX and XANAX TS (alprazolam) are ineffective at the people reached of personality disorders. It is disadvised using them after a diagnosis of disorders of l' mood or psychotics. Dependence and symptoms of weaning, including crises epileptics: The symptoms of weaning can occur following l' stop d' a treatment with benzodiazepines at a person having a physical dependence. They can be severe (p. e.g., epilepsy) in case d' abrupt stop of the treatment or fast reduction of the amount. Even a relatively short use of benzodiazepines to the amounts recommended for the d' treatment; a momentary anxiety and d' an anxious disorder (c' be-with-to say 0,75 Mg to 3 mg/jour) involves a certain risk of dependence. D' results; studies of pharmacovigilance seem to indicate that the risk of dependence and its severity increase among patients receiving of the relatively high amounts (more than 4 mg/jour) or treated for long periods (more than 8 to 12 weeks). Importance of the amount and risks associated with l' use of XANAX in the treatment of the disorder panics: Since the disorder panic often requires l' administration of daily amounts of XANAX of more than 3 Mg, the risk of dependence among these patients can be higher than in the cases d' less severe anxiety. After having studied l' stop of the treatment within the framework d' randomized tests controlled by placebo, it was noted that the symptoms of rebound and weaning were more frequent among patients receiving XANAX than in the reference group. The relapse or the return of the disease was defined like the return of the symptoms characteristic of the disorder panics (mainly crises of panic) on levels comparable with those which l' one had observed before the treatment. The rebound refers to the return of the symptoms of the disorder panics, but to an intensity or a frequency increased. The symptoms of weaning are those which n' were not usually characteristic of the disorder panics and which occurred for the first time and more often during l' stop of the qu' treatment; before the beginning of the treatment. At the time d' a controlled clinical trial in which one randomly divided 63 patients in groups receiving XANAX, one identified the following symptoms of weaning: increased, turbid sensory perception of the concentration, dysosmy, obnubilation, paraesthesia, cramps and contractions muscular, diarrhoea, scrambled vision, loss d' appetite and weight loss. D' other symptoms, in particular l' anxiety and l' insomnia, were frequently observed during l' stop of the treatment, but it was impossible to determine s' they were due to a relapse, a rebound or weaning. In a vaster database, made up d' controlled and not controlled studies in which 641 patients received XANAX, here symptoms associated with l' stop of the treatment and to a frequency of more than 5% among patients receiving XANAX and a frequency higher than that of the placebo group.
I hope this information was of help
Be Well
P.S. why not create a shared post and tell us a bit about yourself
Suffolk