u/Feisty_Sprinkles_748

Hi, so for background, I had a massive panic attack on Monday with lots of physical symptoms that persisted into Tuesday morning. I took 0.5 mg of Ativan twice that day (with appropriate timing between) and it helped, but for the rest of the week I have been having awful, worsening panic/anxiety symptoms.

It feels like my panic attack never ended, and it's going on 4 days now, 3 since I last took the Ativan. My body feels very weak, I feel out of it and exhausted, I've been super nauseous with no appetite and my heart is POUNDING. Like my blood pressure feels so high and it won't ease. (I took my blood pressure twice and it was normal). On top of it all, I just overall feel wrong and like the world is ending, with random adrenaline rushes that feel terrible. So while looking things up, I found quite a few posts on here about how Ativan can cause rebound anxiety with symptoms that are identical to mine. It seems people were experiencing it at any dosage and frequency. As someone who is really sensitive to medication, I wondered if this is what's going on.

For more context, I was prescribed Ativan in the ER about a month ago now. I only had it once in the ER before this week. For a good week after I was in the ER, I had very similar symptoms to what I'm having now but they weren't as intense (the world-ending feeling and adrenaline mainly). I thought it was because of a steroid I had just started for another health issue (stopped taking that awhile ago), but now I'm wondering if it was the Ativan I had at the hospital giving me rebound anxiety, and it's worse this time around because I took it twice.

I would really appreciate some insight on this, because I'm honestly really scared that these symptoms will never go away. They are VERY uncomfortable. Thanks so much in advance.

I've been having a constant panic attack with severe physical symptoms since Monday, after having an argument with an abusive ex friend. Nothing is helping it, even though I feel like I've gotten over the initial trigger. Breathing exercises, water, rest, nothing works or even makes my symptoms worse. I feel absolutely awful, my body keeps shaking, I'm severely nauseous (barely eaten or drank anything these few days), my heart will not stop pounding and I keep having surges of adrenaline every few moments. I feel like the world is ending around me and I'll die. I've been able to sleep, although it's difficult, but as soon as I'm awake for longer than a minute all these physical feelings start overwhelming my body again. Everything feels off and horrible and I just want to feel like myself again. I don't know what to do.