feeling really nauseous and sick today

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feeling really nauseous and sick today
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Mon, 10-09-2006 - 1:26pm

I can't tell if this is anxiety or not. My panic attacks tend to be the slow burning kind that can last for hours, so I guess it's possible. I don't know--I've just felt increasingly queasy as the day has gone on. I knew when I got up this morning (finally--after putting it off for over an hour) that it was going to be a bad day. I swear this job is going to be the death of me. I am so incredibly miserable here. My mind isn't on my work. My work is getting sloppy, and I'm just waiting for someone to notice it. But job hunting takes a certain amount of get-up-and-go gumption that I just simply don't have in me right now. I wouldn't want to hire me either if I was a hiring manager. It's a hideous circle: job=depression, depression=no motivation to hunt for new job.


I actually had fantasies a few hours ago about just walking into my boss's office and quitting.


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Mon, 10-09-2006 - 2:44pm

I hear you. My work has been suffering for a few months now due to my up and down roller coaster with antidepressants. If I could go back I never would have started them. Now my coworkers are noticing changes in me and mysterious illnesses that I know are from being on different meds and now withdrawing, but I don't want to tell anyone what it is. They keep asking me questions and I don't give straight answers because I want to keep it private.
So, not to take the focus off your problem at all but I thought I'd share what I am going through with you. I feel so queasy today myself. Just hang in there and try to work on something quietly and away from others and hopefull you can kind of hide out until the end of the day, I know that's what I'm doing!

Cheryl

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Registered: 06-20-2005
Mon, 10-09-2006 - 6:04pm

I'm feeling this same way today, queezy and just
sick and dizzy. I started 50mg of zoloft last
Thursday and feel awful. I have insomnia. Will
I ever get better? Plus I'm having high-anxiety too.

I got some xanax today but didn't go to work.
I'll have to face the music tomorrow.

Hope you feel better soon,
Ann

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Mon, 10-09-2006 - 7:05pm

Did you start your new med, Laura? I can't remember if you saw the dr. to get a prescription or not. Those feelings from meds usually run their course in about a week.


Depression & anxiety can cause tons of physical symptoms. Then again, so can stress. I hope you can weather this storm & get your gumption back. You have been so unhappy, that a job change seems inevitable. Good luck! (((hugs))) jan


 

 


 



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Mon, 10-09-2006 - 7:40pm
Hello! I am new to the board and have not posted yet, but I felt that I wanted to reply to you because I have many of the same feelings. My panic attacks tend to be slow burning too. The ones that happen at night can go on for hours. I will lie in bed and shake and cry the whole time. I am also having a hard time getting through my days at work. It seems that as soon as I walk into the door, I am not sure if I am going to pass out or throw up!!! I too would like to search for a new job but I just can't even seem to find the time or energy to update my resume.
The only thing that helps me get through my days at work is that my work allows me to go at my own pace. So if I am feeling like poop one day and go kinda slow, I can make it up the next. I don't really have any good advice except to try to take it one day at a time. Handle one thing at a time and give that one thing your whole attention. One day, one hour, one minute, one second, is the only way I make it through. For me alot of handling this disorder is just knowing that I am not alone. I hope that you are feeling better soon.

 

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Mon, 10-09-2006 - 7:46pm

Hello! It's nice to have you here. TYVM for adding your insights. We appreciate you sharing your thoughts & adding to the strength of our community. Please don't be a stranger. Good luck & GBU! (((hugs))) jan



 

 


 



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Registered: 04-18-2003
Mon, 10-09-2006 - 9:07pm

Laura, before I started on the Lexapro & Xanax, I was sick all the time.

Sheri Ann

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Mon, 10-09-2006 - 9:17pm

Ann, what are the instructions on the Xanax?

Sheri Ann

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Mon, 10-09-2006 - 9:22pm

Being able to know that I am not alone, also makes me feel so much better. I have had anxiety last for days on end.

Sheri Ann

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Registered: 09-04-2006
Mon, 10-09-2006 - 10:14pm

I, too, am happy to hear that others--(though I wish none of us felt this) feel this way. I, too, was told that the panic was very temporary! Minutes?? Mine seems to last so long--interminably long. Why do we get this nauseau, this dizziness, this strange and awful sensation? Is it a biochemical imbalance? I have been on klinopin for awhile--sometimes, it seems to work and other times not at all!! I wonder if I need new medication? I know so well that scary feeling at work and it is hard to share how you are feeling--so absolutely sick and scared!
So I guess we just try breathing through it and wait and wait until it goes away!
Hang in there--I am trying hard to hang in there, too!!

Lynne

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Registered: 03-22-2003
Mon, 10-09-2006 - 10:21pm

Hi Lynne, thanks so much for sharing!

Sheri Ann

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