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Please help! :((

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 01:39

I am new to this and am so confused/scared/ and hoping to get relief. I am 21 years old female and have had some weird feelings. I am diagnosed with anxiety, panic disorder, depression, and always thinking something is wrong with me. I work 8.5 hours five days a week with constant standing. I wax eyebrows and do makeup. The past few months my anxiety and stress has returned after a series of life altering events. While I am with my clients I get a feeling of being "out of it" or depersonalization. I am in full conversation with my clients and am waxing there eyebrows. I explain my feeling to a dr and he said sounds like a peitie mal seizure. I rushed to the er and they ran blood tests saying I'm ok and doesn't sound like one. I get a big dizzy too when this happen and I get a little anxious since I'm fearing I'll pass out in front of my client. I am going to get a ct scan Friday. But I am literally heart broken. I have so much going on in my life I can't even get a grip on thinking I have another challenge to face. I felt his diagonosis was extreme of a seizure since I am with clients all day I feel as if someone would of caught if I was zoning out or messing up theri brows or not responding to them for a second. I did a lot of research and don't know if just having brain fog means a seizure? Please help. I am suppose to start medicine for my anxiety but dr is holding off due to waiting on tests...... 

 

Comments

There are lots of things that

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2014-12-05 - 01:06
There are lots of things that should be checked, first step is to get evaluated.  Right diagnosis leads to right treatment options.Note that after a seizure one can be affected for long periods, so a seizure could be brief and the post ictal state & effects (period after a seizure) could last hours (my child has complex partials, those really can mess with memory/perception). Thankfully most seizures are of short duration and are not emergencies. I think alexthegreat wasn't clear, seizures lasting longer than five minutes are considered emergencies and they do happen for some people so obviously seizures can last longer than five minutes.

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