Anxiety and panic attacks symptoms and conditions

I have had the worst year and a half of my life-it should have been the happiest! I was on Yasmin for about 7 years. This last year I had gotten engaged and was excited to marry the man of my dreams! The first few years on Yasmin everything was fine-I did not notice any changes. Over the last few I seemed to recognize some anxiety and started having panic attacks out of the blue. Well, in July 2008, I went to the Dr. and was misdiagnosed as having an ulcer-I really had mono and walking pneumonia?? I was having all kinds of anxiety and they could not figure out why I was sick. I went to all kinds of specialists-neurologists, cardiologists, gastroenterologists, etc. They said nothing was wrong. I received a call from a friend of mine who is a nurse. She knew of my symptoms that had compiled over the last year and asked if I was on Yasmin. She told me to stop the pill but I did not think that this was causing me all of these problems. I ended up having severe insomnia, massive anxiety and panic attacks, irritability, moodiness, muscle aches, night sweats, chest pains, racing heart, depression, the list goes on...I wanted to cancel my wedding! I thought that I was going insane! I ended up at a therapist looking for some help. She was able to help me get through my wedding (December 2008)-thank God!
One of my friends wanted to get off the pill to try and get pregnant and decided to do so after my wedding. After 3 months, she was able to stop her anxiety and depression medicine...correlation?? She was on Yaz!
I immediately stopped the pill (March 2009) -that was the icing on the cake! I have NOT had a period since March, I still have anxiety and am in fear every day that something is going to happen to me.I still have insomnia and feel scared that all of this is taking a huge toll on my body-especially my heart. I just want my hormones to go back to normal so that all of this will end!
Does anyone have a similar story? Any advice as to when I will get back to normal?
Please do not recommend Yasmin or Yaz to anyone ever! It has ruined my life in every aspect. It has affected my relationships, work, school, my well being.
I would love any feed back and/or comments-help!

I have had the Mirena for about 3 years now, I first started having noticeable symptoms about 6 months ago. I started having panic attacks out of left field. I am a very happy person, with a good life so I could not understand what was going on with me. I thought I was going crazy. My daughter had to go with my mother for about 2 weeks as I didn't want her to see me the way I was: having panic attacks, paranoia, depression, crying fits. I was put on celexa to help these problems. It worked for the panic attacks, but I'm still moody and can only sleep if I take a 2.0mg of klonopin. I have never had these problems before. I cannot say it was the mirena, but I doubt I have any other reason for it. I recently started getting really bad cystic acne on my face, chest, back, and even on my scalp. I have gained about 25 pounds and cannot get it off for the world. I only have one daughter and a lot of help from my husband and my mother, so I can't understand the feelings of fatigue that plague me. I have a horrible year. Just the anxiety and panic attacks alone have changed me completely. I thought I was abnormal and sometimes just wanted to die. I do feel better, but as I read, I wonder if taking it out will help with the weight, acne and fatigue as my other problems seem to have just vanished after only 2 weeks on celxa, which I thought strange but was thankful nonetheless. I spoke with my doctor today about removal and she gave me a rx for the acne and said we should think about it.... I think I'm all thought out.....

Wow, I was amazed to find this site! and glad I did. I went to my doctor about 3 months ago, and I had some reflux coming up and he prescribed me the omeprazole. I didn't do any research on the drug and thought it was just a stronger version of tums or rolaids because I've never had to deal with this before. Well, I started on the Omeprazole and I felt like I was in another world. After I started taking it, I honestly feel many other things have happened, such as after I would eat, I couldn't breathe! It's not that I felt the food was getting stuck, but was moving slower or something and I couldn't take air through my nose or mouth...not once did I blame it on this meds...anyhow, My neck started hurting VERY bad! I thought it was just stress....next, my memory feels like it's really slacking and I'm only 38. I can't concentrate. So, I ended up in the ER and was having very bad chest pains...thought it was a heart attack, but everything turned out to be ok and they said I had GERD. They prescribed me Nexium. That's when the true hell began. The first day wasn't bad,but a lot of gas and chest pain, along with the shortness of breath continuing. By day 2 on nexium, I was having severe, and I mean severe anxiety and panic attacks...I ended back up at the ER, again, they said everything was ok and they gave me ranitidine to take too. If I'm not mistaken, nexium and prilosec are almost the same thing? Tonight was the worst of my life.....my panic attacks were horrible, felt like something was stuck in my throat, my neck hurts so bad and my mouth was so dry I couldn't even spit, I was so dizzy I couldn't walk, my ears were cramping from the anxiety and my eyes were blurry...I honestly feel crazy. I have taken prilosec on and off for 3 months, and now I know why my anxiety was so bad for so long, but the nexium topped it off. I heard that 40 mg of prilosec is actually 20 mg of nexium....this drug is BAD and I will never take it again. I will try the apple cider vinegar method w/ some honey. My grandparents swore by it and just start watching what Im eating. I heard its 72 hours before this crap gets out of your system..I can't wait!

LADIES.... PLEASE HELP!!!

I had my Mirena removed 6 weeks ago. Unlike most, I didn't bleed right away. It took me 3 weeks before I bleed and it wasn't heavy. I felt better knowing it was out of me but still was EXTREMELY TIRED, brain fogged, depressed. (The only side effects which have diminished were the irritability, greasy hair/skin, and acne.)

It's now been 6 weeks since it was removed and for the past 2 weeks I've been experiencing horrific anxiety and panic attacks. I'm afraid to leave the house... can't focus. Wake up anxious. Don't want to go anywhere or do anything. I'm also depressed about this. I'm still very very very tired all the time. AND THE MENSTRUAL MIGRAINES ARE STILL HERE.

IS THIS ANXIETY THE "CRASH"??? Can it happen so late? My body seems to be "behind" the norm by about 3 weeks. So really this is about the 2-3 week mark past my first withdrawal bleed.

I'M SOOOOOOOOO SCARED

I have been on zyprexa for about 2 1/2 years I have tried 3 times to get off it, but each time have had bad anxiety and panic attacks. I am once again trying to get off it, my fourth attempt, I have this time doubled my anti-depressant while trying to cut down on the zyprexa. Hopefully I will succeed this time. I have put on 15kgs. over the 2 1/2 years I have been on it. I also have a headache every day and my eyes are always red and I don't drink.

I had the Mirena put in 2 1/2 years ago. About six months after having my first child. At first I bleed for a month straight. It was painful to have it put in but I'm usually a wimp with that type of stuff. After the first month my periods become lighter and then not at all. At first it seemed virtually unnoticeable. But my boyfriend starting saying he could feel something poking him during sex. I also do have the worst back pain that seemed to start after having the Mirena put in. I also have acne, stomach flutters, and nausea.I also experienced anxiety and panic attacks. However, I think they were associated with my job because once I left that job my anxiety decreased. I don't know if any of these symptoms have to do with Mirena but they aren't really that bothersome. Well the back is but it's mostly in the upper back and neck area and I think it has to do with stress. I do fight with my boyfriend a lot. But unlike many others have said I don't experience rage or yell at him for no good reason. We fight cause he is a lazy jerk and that's that. LOL So all in all my experience has been pleasant but have something foreign inside of me scares me. Like many others have said, I think it's important to take all factors into account. We all get a little crazy and stressed out. :)

I got the Mirena on April 9, 09. It hurt so much trying to get it in and for a week after I almost had it taken out right away. The first thing I noticed was NO SEX DRIVE at all! When I would have SEX it was SO PAINFUL! I truly believe that these are 2 reasons it is so effective, you can't get pregnant if you're not having sex! The next thing was NUMBNESS and TINGLING in my HANDS and ARMS which threw me into PANIC ATTACKS (which I had never had, so I didn't know what they were at the time) I started to have the feeling of something in my throat, which I later found out was due to OVERACTIVE THYROID. (For any of you who LOST WEIGHT this might be the problem) I lost 14 lbs in 1 month. This might seem like a good thing but not for me. I'm around 105 lbs normally, I am starting to look like I am anorexic. I started to have HEART PALPITATIONS, maybe because of the constant panic attacks. (That's the fluttering or twitching feeling in your chest)
I had it removed a week ago tomorrow. So far the anxiety has gotten a little better. I've read that it can take up to 3 months for the hormones to get out of your system. So I'm still waiting ANXIOUSLY for that to happen!

I started reading articles about links between depression and ddp-4, Which Januvia is a ddp-4 inhibitor. after reading this forum and noticing that people experience depression on this drug.

I had depression as one of the side effects on this drug but what I noticed it was not easy to get off the drug. It took me a week of sleepless nights and anxiety and panic attacks which I never had until i took the drug. I am doing better but from what I read it takes a month for Januvia to leave your system.

So my question would be why would a doctor who knows of family background of depression in family history would prescribe this junk. I would think that if you have a predisposition to a disease that it would be taking into account. What this tells me is that our doctors are not doing their homework on the stuff they are giving us and we are having to do tha t for them. What am I paying for then?

What I got from my research was that lower levels of ddp-4 is seen in patients with depression. I found studies by searching on Dipeptidyl peptidase IV and depression.

Copyright © 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Dipeptidyl peptidase IV and adenosine deaminase activity: Decrease in depression

References and further reading may be available for this article. To view references and further reading you must purchase this article.

Serenay Elgün, , a, Aytaç Keskinegea and Hakan Kumbasarb

a Department of Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ankara, 06100 Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey

b Department of Psychiatry, Consultation–Liaison Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ankara, Dikimevi, Ankara, Turkey

Received 22 December 1998; accepted 15 May 1999. Available online 17 September 1999.

Abstract
Dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV) and adenosine deaminase (ADA), two T cell associated enzymes, are known to have a possible interaction and play essential roles in immune system functioning. On the other hand, depression has been shown to be accompanied with some immune-inflammatory alterations. In this regard, in order to make a contribution to the understanding of the ongoing immune disturbances in depression, serum DPPIV and ADA activities were determined in minor and major depressives and compared with healthy controls. Both enzyme activities were found to be decreased in major depressives compared to controls while only DPPIV activity was significantly lower in major depressives than the minor depressives. There were significant inverse relationships between enzyme activities and the severity of depression. Moreover, a positive intracorrelation was found between decreased DPPIV and ADA levels. The correlated decrease in DPPIV and ADA, might be a further support for their possible association. Results also suggest that decreased enzyme activities might reflect the impaired immune state in depression while major depressed patients might have a greater tendency to immune dysfunction than the minor depressed ones.

I HATE MIRENA!

im 19 years old and i have had two children. i had the mirena put in jan. of 09. my doctor made it seem like such a great little invention.. but let me tell you its NOT! throughout the past 4 months i have had hair loss, been tired all the time, nausea, sinus infection after sinus infection and even a rash! and not to mention the terrible cramping and vaginal discharge! but thats just the physical symptoms. I have been extremely anxious and have been getting panic attacks, depression, i had to go to the ER 3 days ago for my anxiety and panic attacks. i have been sad for no reason and extremely moody! i thought this whole time that i was dying but then i realized that my life was great until i had the mirena put in so thats when i found this website which has really saved me!! im getting this horrible thing taken ou tomorrow and i would not recommend this too anybody!!!

I am a perfectly healthy, 24-year old young lady in excellent mental and physical health. I eat right, exercise regularly and I have no history of any health problems. In August of 2007 I started taking Yaz, it was prescribed by my gynecologist and I always got free samples, so I began taking it. In November of 2007 (almost 4-months after starting Yaz) I began having severely painful and scary gallbladder attacks. After multiple tests, I found out that at 22 years of age, my gallbladder was functioning at 0% and had to be removed immediately. I always thought that it was odd and my family did too because there is no history of gallbladder disease in my family at all and I was way too young and healthy to have my gallbladder fail. During the first few months of taking Yaz, I noticed that I was moody and tired beyond belief. I lost a few pounds though. For the first couple of months, my acne got worse, but then around the same time that I had my gallbladder removed, my acne started to improve pretty rapidly. A couple of months later I was diagnosed with IBS and have suffered digestive problems since.
I was in a relationship when I started taking Yaz and for no reason at all I lost all interest in sex and developed anxiety and an aversion to touch and in January of 2008 I broke things off with my boyfriend for no reason at all. In March of 2008 I started having severe anxiety and panic attacks. At times I even had thoughts of dying and thought that "at least I won't feel this way anymore."
To soothe those feelings I began drinking and partying and found that I felt better with the calming effects of alcohol. I drank at least 4 nights a week for about two months until I started gaining weight from the drinking. I don't have an addictive personality at all and so I just quit drinking cold turkey. It tasted horrible anyways.
In May 2008 I met the most wonderful man in the world, and yet, I was unable to ever really "feel" anything for him and I always felt emotionless and empty. My anxiety and panic attacks continued and I absolutely had no sex drive. We would have sex, but eventually my aversion to it took over and we began fighting for no reason at all and I became panicky and depressed again. In July 2008 I developed a severe allergic reaction to peanuts and had to be taken to the emergency room. I have never had any allergies and have enjoyed peanuts all throughout my life. In August of 2008 I developed an allergy to penicillin and broke out in hives. I had never been allergic to anything in my life, and all of a sudden, I had two allergies!!!
In September of 2008 my immune system went down the drain and I developed a severe and life-threatening MRSA infection. I was in and out of the emergency room for a week straight and didn't get better from it for over 3 weeks. The doctors thought I had to have some sort of AIDS or Cancer to be getting MRSA at such a young age....but all tests came back negative multiple times and they just shrugged me off as an exception to the rule.
In October of 2008 I got a severe intestinal infection called c. diff.
This took two weeks for me to get over and was absolutely horrible!!
What was happening to my body??
What was happening to my immune system??
In November I started having problems with my blood sugar and I always felt like I was on the verge of passing out unless I ate on a constant basis.
It was horrible!!!
By this time, my acne was gone, my periods were shorter...thanks Yaz.

But, I had
Migraines/Severe Headaches
Fluctuating Appetite with weird cravings for salty and sweet foods
Low Blood Sugar with light-headedness and weakness
Blurry Vision (even though my eye doctor has told me repeatedly that I have perfect vision)
Brain Fog
Severe Anxiety
Panic Attacks
Nervousness and Restlessness
Inability to pay attention
Moodiness/Snappiness
Depression
Long episodes of ataraxia where I just couldn't feel any kind of emotion
NO SEX DRIVE
An aversion to touch
Hot flashes
Body aches
Thinning hair
My gallbladder quit functioning
I had a very weak immune system
and I had developed allergies to things I had been in contact with all my life...
I had back aches and neck pains
And I had severe Insomnia in spite of the fact that I was exhausted all the time! And when I did sleep it was worth nothing....
In January of 2009 I quit my job and dumped my 'perfect' boyfriend.
In February I was unable to get a hold of any Yaz bc and therefore since I wasn't having sex, I skipped February. I felt better in February and never made any connection and so I got back on in March and since then I have never felt worse in my life!!!! I've been doing research on the effects that Yaz and other bc hormones have on our bodies and it is astonishing how much it can psychologically and physically damage our bodies. I have felt like I am going crazy and slowly dying for NO REASON AT ALL>
Yaz is a nightmare!!!
I have been off of it now for 2 days and even though I still have some of the same symptoms, I can slowly feel myself getting back to normal. I've been told that it can take up to 2-3 months to get bc completely out of your system and for your body to adjust so I'm coping and being hopeful.
During the last month or so, I have even considered taking anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications because my life is a nightmare, luckily I looked deeper into my situation and discovered the culprit b4 I put something else in my body...
Yaz is not worth it.
I will never recommend it to anyone.
The pharmaceutical companies don't give a crap about us!!!
They just want our money and don't give a shit what their chemicals do to our bodies!!!
When I have little girls of my own someday, I will never let them take b.c.
I have been letting all of my friends and family know.
I would love to participate in a class action suite or an anti-Yaz campaign....
Anything. If you know let me know because I don't ever want anyone to have to go through what I have gone through with Yaz.
Ladies....Please do significant research before you ever put anything into your bodies.

Hello again:
I was wandering if anybody has had a low Vitamin D deficiency with the use of Doxycycline? I found out yesterday I do have a deficiency it went down to 11 it should be I think between 30-100. I start 50,000iu tomorrow to get it back up! I read that Vitamin D deficiency can cause a lot of these symptoms
that are on this site. Hope Vitamin D works for me!
Also I am still looking for help! after two months of being off Doxycycline!
what has everyone done to get better?
Question? has anyone had permanent side effects?

Hello Again,

This is my second post and was just wondering; How long has everyone been on doxycycline and how many mgs? How long have they been OFF it and has the depression/anxiety been better? PLEASE HELP!

Thank You

Hello, PLEASE HELP

I've recently taken doxycycline for about a week. I have suffered anxiety,depression off this medication. I'm taking paxil also right now. Can someone PLEASE tell me how long before this stuff is out of my system?

Thank You!!

I am so glad others have had anxiety and panic attacks on this. I thought I was alone and the doctor does not think that doxy is responsible.

Ladies,
It has been 76 days since I had Mirena removed. I feel incredible. The last week, I want to sing, play, laugh, love. It's GREAT!
Don't get me wrong, I had two crashes since having it removed and they were bad--right around ovulation/PMS time, but each cycle keeps getting BETTER and with each I feel more like the old me. I know what normal is like, because I was normal before Mirena and am starting to feel that way now. THESE ARE THE DAYS I YEARNED FOR WHILE I HAD THE MIRENA when I felt bipolar.
I expect I could crash again. I did have two of those suckers for 5 1/2 years, but I can handle it, because it's not everyday like the Mirena days.
Be well and HAPPY

Just got the Mirena out today. I am SO hoping that I can go back to my normal self and not be plagued by anxiety and panic attacks. Can anyone tell me when I can start feeling normal again? I so want this to be over. I was ok for the first six months whilst I bled constantly and then when the bleeding stopped all together panic and anxiety set in. I plan on keeping everyone up to date with how I am going as I think we all need to stick together on this one. There are so many of us out there, I am sure after reading all your posts that it's not just us, we're all in the same boat. I am also excited about all my hair hopefully staying attached to my head from here on in!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been taking Celexa for about 10 years now...in beginning it was 40mg and it took a good 3 weeks to totally be free of the horrible depression/panic/anxiety attacks that came on me like a flood. I was in bad shape when I finally found out what was wrong with me and I was a total basket case for a month before and 3 weeks after. When the drug took effect slowly I came out of this horrible funk. The side effects mostly were sleepiness, loss of sex drive and sensation like many here are experiencing. Gradually I tapered down to 20mg and now 10mg. I don't take it everyday but about every other day and just enough to keep some in my system so that if I nose dive again I up my dose and it doesn't take as long to feel normal. I don't handle trauma, stress or confrontations well and they have a tendency to make me switch into these nose dives. Celexa and dosage works for ME...I believe each one of us has different chemical structures which is why one pill doesn't work for all of us. I think high dosages tend to make you more "zombie" too. I've tried other types of anti depressants and always come back to Celexa because the side effects aren't anything like the others to me. So, please keep trying different meds to see whats good for YOU. If a doctor gives you a hard time, FIND ANOTHER! I suggest a Psychiatric one too. GP's and OB/GYN's aren't trained enough in this area to really know how to prescribe and help treat this and have a tendency to prescribe what they've been given freebies of. Not all Psych's are good either. Keep trying to find the right one please! I know, I've been there. Above all, pray....it helps. :)

Holy crap this website is depressing! Paxil is not all bad people! I've been on it for 1.5 years. I'm a 24 yr old female. I take it for social anxiety and panic attacks. It takes about 3-4 months for your body to adjust to taking it. You are likely to experience MINOR side effects. I had a lot of sweating, tiredness and HAPPINESS. Yes, I was really happy...its an anti-depressant after all. After that you might be a little more tired than you use to, but other than that it is fine. You can't quit cold turkey, you have to be weaned off of it...just like you will be gradually put on it. I take 30 mg a day, but started at 10 the first couple weeks. Don't get freaked out because of all the bad reviews on here. Everyone just wants a place to whine about their bad experiences and how horrible their life is. Paxil cured my panic attacks and my anxiety. I feel so much better. I think so much more clearly and I don't constantly worry about what everyone thinks of me. Would recommend paxil to a friend.

I am only 16 and I am taking this for a UTI/Kidney Infection. Mine is in liquid form b/c I can not swallow pills. This medicine sucks. Simple as that. I am sitting here right now with the worst headache-Feels like when I went to the hospital 4 in the morning! I am reading all of the others posts and getting scared. I have been diagnosed with Anxiety and Panic Attacks on top of this-I swear doctors these days aren't so medicine smart. I will be forced to take it-I don't want to! This medicine is hurting people and I am one of those people!!!!

I got mirena in January of 08, so I have had it about a year now. I have had constant depression, fatigue and chronic headaches. My eyes are are starting to ache now and I am having abdominal pain as well. I get this very odd tingling sensation through my whole body. I have been to so many doctors and like everyone else, all the sudden thought is it mirena? I called to make an appointment to get it taken out, still waiting for the call back. Please anyone write back and let me know if you experience this weird tingling and eye pain. I have also started to have anxiety and panic attacks as well. They put me on Valium and all sorts of stuff. I have anxiety because no one can explain all of these symptoms. I constantly just feel tired and angry. I hope when I get this out I can be NORMAL again.

I had the mirena inserted on Dec 5 2005, I had bleeding for about two weeks and nothing much, up until 3 weeks ago I "loved" my Mirena, I was happy not two to have a period not that I ever had any problems with mine's. I was not until I found this site that I started to realized that my "chronic fatigue" that started in April 06, the hair falling out, sudden anxiety and panic attacks, blood pressure going off the chart for no reason 175/96, after always having low blood pressure, being put on Lexapro and Valium, feeling sad, gaining 20 pounds, not able to lose them no matter what I did, the horrible headaches, migraines and tension headaches at the same time, the fidgeting, nausea and just a general feeling of not being well, that I decided to have that thing removed. Had it removed on 1-15-09, had to be put on a beta blocker 50 milligrams twice a day to lower my blood pressure. I "cried" when I read some of the entries, I almost got diagnosed with lupus, the doctors could not figure out what was wrong with me, I was given all kind of excuses, "well you are 40 now" maybe it is your family life, etc, etc, my mom whom is 74 has more energy than I do!!! Don't let anyone con you, this thing is evil, and Lord knows what kind of other damage it has done to my health. And like many of you I did have a period occasionally, I did not know when, but it was nasty smelling and brownish. Also as of late I started to feel a burning sensation on top of my vagina, I have not been intimate in over a year and had a full exam last year ;therefore, I know I done have any STDs. The headaches were the worst, I could not even comb my hair, I felt like if someone was cutting it in two. Post removal I have not had more bleeding, but I know it is quite early, either way, not having that thing, and even after taking beta blocker I have more energy than I ever had in three years. My son was born in Dec 2002 and I have never felt as tired as I felt while on Mirena. I had double vision, could not control my thoughts and everything was a major disaster, somehow I lost my ability to take control of my life, never again will I put my body through something like this

This drug has not been properly examined in clinical trials. I will gladly suffer with allergies rather than suffer from anxiety and panic attacks caused by Singulair. It may be beneficial to some people, but not to me. Never again, Singulair.

I've been happily enjoying the freedom of Mirena since February 06. However over the last six months I've had chest pain, sometimes severe, and shortness of breath. Been to the lung doctor who was alarmed the pain was not in the chest wall. Just short of going for the chest x-ray I thought...hmm...I wonder if this is an IUD side effect. Sure enough, I should call my doctor immediately upon having this pain. Well, good to know. I'll be calling my doctor tomorrow morning.
I also am enlightened by all the severe anxiety reports - I thought I was going a bit nutty over the last six months with anxiety and panic attacks, sleeplessness and worry - but now I'm thinking my Mirena honeymoon is over. Almost three years of blissful birth control, with only crazzzzy side effects for the last six months. Try it, maybe it will work for you, but as you go along, check in with that nice long list of potential side effects, so you can choose wisely about what you're trading for your free love experiences...

Hello all,
After reading all of these testimonials I suddenly feel more sane. I tried the Nuva Ring for one month and within the first week noticed a dramatic shift in my emotional stability. I had a panic attack and was unable to stop crying for hours. For weeks afterwards I felt not like myself all day, and was having one to two panic attacks a day. Also, I no longer had those little brilliant moments of happiness when I know that I'm entirely me. I really like myself, and usually have self-esteem but some how I forgot who I was, and forgot how to get back to that place. When I removed the ring after three weeks (as instructed) I decided to never put it back in. Within a few days I felt more like myself. I even had some glimmering "me" moments. Regardless, since then I still am much more anxious. I have trouble sleeping, an inability to relax, tension in my jaw, depression, and (worst of all) panic attacks. I can't shake this fear that something terrible is about to happen... but I know that it is just anxiety because my symptoms keep changing. One day I think that I'm hypoglycemic, and the next day I'm afraid that I had a seizure in my sleep. It all boils down to general anxiety, and panic attacks which ALL started when I began the NuvaRing. I have been off the Ring for one month now and I really want my life back. I have had my period post ring, and I'm sure the hormonal levels are just falling back into check- but I really need some reassurance from someone who understands. Could any of you (or all of you! the more the better!) please let me know how long it took your anxiety/depression symptoms to subside????? Please. I really need some hope that this will get better, because the hopelessness is part of the depression.

Thanks,
A.