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I’ve been going through this since the pandemic started and then cancer came along shortly after that. I’m fairly good during the day because I can find ways to keep myself busy or I try to focus on things to distract myself from my anxiety. I usually wake up at night about 2-3 times but it’s the anxiety that comes with it, sometimes I can get past it but other times I have to get up in order to cope with my anxiety. I worry about things at night that overwhelm me and it takes everything I have to calm down. Everything is always so scary at night and I feel so alone even though I’m not by myself, it’s just that I feel isolated with my fears and it’s wearing me down. I have tried using medication but I find them equally stressful, it’s always like a trade off, the meds help with one thing but they cause other issues. I always hope and pray that a solution will come along and put things right again, until then I must persevere.

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I could have written this...Pandemic, cancer, and in my case a traumatic break up.
Every morning I wake up in fear.
Actually starts around 5 with adrenline rushes, sweats, and creepy feeling dreams if I doze off.
I've tried buspar,which didn't help, and have a script for prozac that I might be desperate enough to try. But I won't do benzos...My daughter's life has been ruined by psych drugs, and her situation now has added to my misery.
I'm alone, 75 yrs. old, and just keep telling myself things could be lots worse....