Okay its been 4 1/2 months since I had my baby. It started slowy just a few times a month I would start feeling shaky, dizzy, weak, and like I am going to die. And now it happening everynight at clock work. I have a had a ton of test and everything comes back great with my physical health. Has anyone had this before, and if you so how do you deal with anxiety? It starting to control my life.

Thanks for your time!

Hello, I am now 32 weeks pregnant (planned). At about 28 weeks, anxiety kicked in with a few panic attacks and loss of sleep. I am on Ambien now (which is completely safe for baby) and it gets me through the nights. However, I am feeling anxious all day still. I feel like I need to constantly be busy because I get so anxious just sitting/lying down. I can’t just relax my mind. I have trouble napping or just enjoying peace and quiet. MY QUESTION IS: Will this pregnancy induced anxiety go away after the birth of the baby? I have heard that hormones can cause this, so will I go back to normal later, assuming I won’t be post-partum? Experience? Thoughts?
I am not necessarily anxious about the baby as much as anxious about anxiety and feeling wierd. I hate it. Hope that makes sense.

HI i am 6 months pregnant been off my anxiety meds since i found out i was pregnant. I have been doing ok for a while, but for the last few days i have been having downright panic attacks. does anyone know how to help with these,without me having to resume my medication……..

Hello, I am now 32 weeks pregnant (planned). At about 28 weeks, anxiety kicked in with a few panic attacks and loss of sleep. I am on Ambien now (which is completely safe for baby) and it gets me through the nights. However, I am feeling anxious all day still. I feel like I need to constantly be busy because I get so anxious just sitting/lying down. I can’t just relax my mind. I have trouble napping or just enjoying peace and quiet. MY QUESTION IS: Will this pregnancy induced anxiety go away after the birth of the baby? I have heard that hormones can cause this, so will I go back to normal later, assuming I won’t be post-partum? Experience? Thoughts?

Right before I got pregnant I started having anxiety attacks. And didn’t really get a chance to get any treatment for that. And then it was too late cause I got pregnant and couldn’t take anything anyway. I don’t know where this anxiety came from. I’m not an anxious person. My life is pretty smooth too. But it came from somewhere I guess. Early in pregnancy I had a few panic attacks. Then they seemed to get better, stop actually. I’m 24 weeks now and I had an attack the other day again. Every time I feel it coming I try to stop it trying to control my breath which usually helps a lot. My question is if it’s bad for the baby. I’m sure there’s definitely nothing good about it but how really bad are the panic attacks for the baby?

what are the chances of 4 positive pregnancy tests being wrong?! …i had blood work done yesterday, but don’t get the results until monday, i’m so scared she’s going to tell me i’m not pregnant…

I read a article that links stress to autism. Stress between weeks 24 and 28.
I am a very anxious person and now during pregancy its gone haywire.
I blow up things out of proportion,have irrational thoughts that never leave my brain for days and make me feel down and give me headaches.
Unfortunately all this is happening more in the weeks 22 onward for me and I am soooo worried.
Please give me your experiences.

I was thinking if anxiety is a pregnancy symptom???
I have been having these silly thoughts and i keep worrying like last night i had some thought in my mind and i couldnt sleep all night because i felt as if i had some tension in my mind and somebody is going to ruin my love and life.
Apart from that i have slight cramping in lower pelvis, hunger episodes, tiredness.
Are these pregnancy symptoms?
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Im jesse. i am 8 weeks pregnant, well ive been experiancing some pretty weird symptoms, such as..
*crazy cold chills, or get hot easy.
*feeling kinda spacey or ‘lightheaded, dizzy”
*feeling like im going crazy, and moody swings, i REALLY feel as if i am going crazy…..
*”night sickness’.. like just at night i get wicked cold chills and feel like i have the flu…
* i feel stressed!
* and feeling “slow”..

I have to admit, im some what a hypocondriac, i stress every little thing i can, but i just have been feeling like something is wrong with me for the past 4 months.. i have had one anxiety attack cause i looked my symptoms up on the internet when i got sick with flu one time and thought for sure i had cancer.. and i FREAKED OUT! Now my scare is HIV or AIDS! i am getting checked the 19th..
Ive been with same partner for 8 months, and before him it was 2 months before i had sex with anyone. and my first is the one i am most worried about, that was December 10th, 2009, Would i be feeling more symptoms by now ? I am so worried. I had a uncle pass away by AIDs, and i am so scared…

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have been diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and have been on meds. (lexapro) for a few years now. The meds. seemed to be helping me for a couple of year but I noticed when I first became pregnant with my daughter about 2 years ago that during my 2nd trimester and throughout my pregnancy my anxiety got better. By the end of my first pregnancy my neck tension and panic attacks totally disappeared (and I have anxiety pretty bad). When I was postpartum I noticed within a few days after giving birth my anxiety came back full force and slightly worse than before I had became pregnant.

Shortly after I had my daughter almost 3 months after I had her I became pregnant again with my son. I am recently still recovering from having him only a couple months ago and noticed as soon as I had him that my anxiety came back. When I was in the hospital recovering my anxiety reached its worse and now that its been a couple months later I noticed my neck tension coming back extremely bad and my anxiety has worsened. I went back on my lexapro after having quit it completely when I was pregnant with my son but it seems to not be helping at all…my psychiatrist prescribed me a muscle relaxer and it still doesn’t seem to be helping with my neck tension and even though I’ve uped the dosage of my lexapro my anxiety is still horrible…=(

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