Posted By: PAMT~MDM on 2007-03-21
In Reply to: Thanks so much for this new board! I hope that - others will post here, too (sm)

Maybe I'm Amazed

I ended up taking an ambulance ride at 3 in the morning.  By the time the baby aspirin and 3 nitro sprays hadn't done any good, I figured it had been a panic attack.  My family doctor agreed even though they told me it was musculoskeletal in the ER and gave me IV Toradol and sent me home once my chest x-ray, D-dimer and EKGs were normal.  My MD gave me Klonopin and I have been taking 0.25 mg at night and have been doing well on it. He told me to take 1/2 or 1 tablet t.i.d., but 1/2 a tablet made me so sleepy during the day (especially since he also had me cut back on my caffeine) that I stuck to the 1/2 a tab at bedtime. I had no idea how common panic/anxiety was until people heard about my midnight ride and started talking about their own situations.  It was definitely not anything I want to repeat if I can help it at all.

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