My doctor suspects PCOS and put me on Androcur at 25 mg per day. Since then I have been having anxiety issues. Not necessarily attacks, just very uncomfortable and uncontrollable shortness of breath and chest pain. I thought I was having asthma problems and went to a doctor for that. He ruled out asthma and said it was probably an anxiety disorder. My mother used to have an anxiety disorder and so it sounded possible. He ordered a chest xray and an EKG. Both came back fine. I am waiting for the results of a thyroid test. Could I be going through all these tests for no reason? It sure feels real, but I am wondering if this simply a possible side-effect of Androcur? Have any of you had these sort of problems on this medication?
Isn't PCOS just wonderful? You are not alone in your panic attacks and anxiety.
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I can certainly relate!
I'm not a doctor but my situation is that I came off the Depo-shot and shortly after developed many health problems with the biggest being PCOS and depression and anxiety attacks! I am on Clozapan too for my outragous attacks.
Ah yes, I have had panic attacks so you are definitely not alone.
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You are not alone in the panic attack department! I think the hormonal imbalance can contribute to that awful panic feeling. I take effexor right now but I am nervous about potential weight gain.
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You ladies break my heart. I almost sat crying reading this. OF COURSE they're related. You poor ladies. I never had anxiety at all till this disorder and now I have anxiety. It starts physical, my body goes into anxiety without my thoughts starting it. I can be content and my body starts anxiety and then my emotions follow because I know its happening...especially without Met. Its so frusterating. My hormones are the reason. I'm 100 percent convinced. For those that won't get 'referred' to a good doctor, find a good one and pay for it. You don't need permission to go to a doctor who will actually help you. I work 3 jobs to pay for my treatment. I'm looking to work in a hospital so I get benefits. The girl with the black hair and red lips-God bless you. I feel so bad for you.
I've had the same thing as you all are saying. I thought my anxiety was related to me having a blood clot (the clot happened a couple weeks after being diagnosed with PCOS). However, I'm not freaked about clots anymore, but the anxiety is still with me...and getting worse. I have been beginning to think it's related to the Met. My husband is a psychologist and he hasn't read any studies about anxiety and Met, but he has totally seen my anxiety get worse since my DX. Maybe it has to do with changing hormones or just the fact that something so disruptive is going on inside my body and now I am actually *aware* of the issues since my DX. I don't know...but things are getting to the point where I have panic attacks even thinking about making phone calls or going to Walmart (who likes walmart anyway lol).
More than just anxiety I have an extreme inability to make simple decisions (like what to eat for dinner). I've had 2 panic attacks b/c I didn't know what to choose to eat! Isn't that insane??? Anybody else have this sort of thing?
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I started having Panic Attacks at about 25 yrs. old. I did since a teen notice some nervous anxiety at times. Since, I've had two full blown seriously GAD attacks, which took many months to overcome. I had no idea it was hormone related. I just figured I was weak mentally/ emotionally and had to really watch myself.
From reading this board I have learned sooo MUCH more than from my MD's visit.
One year I couldn't leave the house- no joke. I was scared to death to drive anywhere because the anxiety level was so high.
It does feel a bit weird to have hard like rocks ovaries, even if the MD's sugar coat it to be 'pearlized'. Why not say , 'emerald-like'.
I want to be as sensitive as at all possible. Panic attacks are horrid, uncomfortable, incapacitating and brutal--BUT if you learn to recognize the symptoms for what they are (dizzy, rapid heart, short of breath etc.) and say "Oh it's just anxiety" it will get soooo much easier. The symptoms will pass--they always do!Millions and millions of people suffer from anxiety disorders and I am sure not all of them have pco's. Pco's can raise susceptibility but I am sure all of us have other "triggers" to anxiety attacks that have nothing to do with pco's. I am an anxiety sufferer myself and I have had to implement self-talk, awareness, and yikes even medication.
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That technique is disassociation. If that worked for those of us on here we wouldn't need our hormones balanced or tranqs. If you can talk yourslef out of a hormonal anxiety attack, your not having one.
I was a performer, an opera singer for 12 years. I sang in front of 2000 ppl at any given time. I never had anxiety-ever. Until this PCOS showed up. Mine is hormonally related-totally because when on Met I don't get anxiety. That's for me.
I do think triggers can play into things if you have PTSD as that disorder is all trigger-based. I have that from being with psychomen con-artists, so when any man acts unpredictable, I can have anxity but that trigger was only created because of the suseptibility from PCOS and the estrogen dominance and nealy zero progesterone. You gotta study your hormones to know what happens and what makes you vulnerable. Each woman w/pcos has varying levels of hormone, so no, telling people they can just talk themsleves out of it is somewhat silly. Sorry.
For 12 years I did nothing but self talk, affirmation and all that. Its part of a mystical path and one of self improvement. During that time I was hormonally healthy however self talk only goes so far. I don't take tranquilizers for anxiety and if I did I'm sure I would be thinking my self talking was working real well.
Luckily for me Met solves it most of the time to where self talk in general is fine because my hormones balance out.
I have worked with MFC's for years in their workshops. Let me repeat, they asked me to facilitate healing workshops that deal with affirmation. I know how it works very very well. I also know where it stops. There are limits to it if someones hormones are out of whack. When hormones are balanced self talk works for minor anxiety, but not major.
Most on this psych related board have severe anxiety. Also, I've seen that when self talk does not work the persona failing at that feels like a failure for not being able to control it. There is a darker side to affirmation and what the movement has created. My mother beats anyone up with her 'THE SECRET' book if lie hands then a hard card. She gets brutal about 'well your thoughts brought it! Its your own damn fault!". Nope! Not when anxiety is hormonal and you don't know it.
Popping the affirmation pill is mnimizing the reality and intensity that is really happening to most women on this thread. After I calmed down I realized you were tryoing to help but it can be detrimental to think we can think our way out of hormones. If we could there would be no pcos or menopause.
Sorry to get pissed back. The company I work for is going belly up and half of us who were not family were laid off. I'm stressed and I'm only on Met for 2 weeks. I still get upset when someone attacks. Maybe when I've had more time on met I won't beat a ead horse and will care less when someone here insults.
You are not alone in the panic attack department! I think the hormonal imbalance can contribute to that awful panic feeling. I take effexor right now but I am nervous about potential weight gain.
Stacy,
Why do you take effexor and then state later a reversal of taking meds opinion, further going on with self talk affirmations?
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that anxiety attacks are due to "PCOS", per se. PCOS is a 'syndrome' of symptoms - not a 'thing'.
Best to work with a doctor who can accurately diagnose the 'real' source of your attacks.
Kat - Maybe its not entirely true, but it's true for me. Once PCOS happened so did the anxiety, once on Met, the anxiety goes away. For me and per my endo, she agree's. I'm sure there are other factors but as far as my hormonal induced anxiety, thats the reason. I don't get anxiety ever and always though panic attacks were for highly negative people only who had severe negative self talk or PTSD or chemical imbalance. I never thought hormones could create it, so I've been humbled having this disorder.
Kat - Maybe its not entirely true, but it's true for me.
^That's^ a very different statement from your previous one, which was not accurate:
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If you can talk yourslef out of a hormonal anxiety attack, your not having one...
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Once PCOS happened so did the anxiety, once on Met, the anxiety goes away. For me and per my endo, she agree's.
Interesting...I've never heard of an endo claiming (and/or 'confirming') that PCOS just happens.
Again, PCOS is a complicated disorder, and it's different in many women. I'd be suspicious of any doctor who chalks up anxiety to PCOS, per se, without exploring a more specific and accurate diagnosis.
In my case, I developed anxiety issues after starting treatment for PCOS. Turns out, it was the BCP's (not any hormonal imbalance from pcos.)
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