I have been battling a heroin addiction and anxiety. I have done an abundant amount of research on having dreadful anxiety while being high on heroin and all the answers I have gotten is about how people have anxiety while going through heroin withdrawals and how heroin helps reduce an individuals anxiety/help with panic attacks.
My story;
The past 3 weeks I have been dealing with awful anxiety symptoms such as; Feeling dizzy, feeling faint, restlessness, feeling unfocused, and nausea. This is an all day event and several time through out the day I will feel a panic attack coming on. I will have pressure starting from my nose, to my head, down through my neck and into my chest.. minutes later it will start getting tingly and start getting numb and then I start hyperventilating. This only last for 10 minutes and then my whole body will start shaking/shivering violently and I'll be quivering my teeth but I don't feel cold or have chills in any way.
The thing is... Is when I'm going through withdrawals or completely sober, I have no sign of anxiety at all and I never have. I've been using for about a year now and it hasn't been until the past 3 weeks that when I smoke heroin, a sudden fear comes over me that will last with me through out the whole day. The fear has nothing to do with my surroundings. The fear is that I'm going to die, something is wrong with me, my health. I don't know how many things I have diagnosed myself with; heart attacks, lung problems, seizures, etc. I have been to the hospital 3 different times over these symptoms and since I am 22 the doctors say that I am young so they don't see anything to serious going on and it is just anxiety & won't run any other tests.
Also, I want to make this a point: I have nothing stressful going on in my life at all and I have no reason to be anxious what-so-ever.
I know the simple solution would just to stop smoking heroin if this is causing this big of impact on my everyday activities but it's much harder said than done so please don't judge. I have limited myself and I am not smoking as much as I used to. When I stop, I get withdrawals.. so I've been smoking half Bs through out the day to help with the sickness.. but even smoking that much causes this bad of anxiety. Smoking has never ever caused this to happen to me before, its all new and recent...
I should also state that about 4 weeks ago, I started having problems with my chest (this is when I thought I was having heart/lung problems.) I was thinking it was due to how much heroin I was smoking a day so until I went to the hospital thats when I started getting anxiety about using heroin.. thinking it was damaging my lungs... Turned out to be heartburn.
Could this heroin addiction be causing some serious problems with my health, could the heroin just be affecting my body differently than before, or since my experience I had 4 weeks ago, thinking it was the heroin abuse (even though I know it's not now); Could that be playing tricks with my head? There for, it's all in my head...?
I'm so scared right now and would like your guys' thoughts on this situation, some feedback, or hopefully/possibly some stories from your personal experience!
Thank you!
My story;
The past 3 weeks I have been dealing with awful anxiety symptoms such as; Feeling dizzy, feeling faint, restlessness, feeling unfocused, and nausea. This is an all day event and several time through out the day I will feel a panic attack coming on. I will have pressure starting from my nose, to my head, down through my neck and into my chest.. minutes later it will start getting tingly and start getting numb and then I start hyperventilating. This only last for 10 minutes and then my whole body will start shaking/shivering violently and I'll be quivering my teeth but I don't feel cold or have chills in any way.
The thing is... Is when I'm going through withdrawals or completely sober, I have no sign of anxiety at all and I never have. I've been using for about a year now and it hasn't been until the past 3 weeks that when I smoke heroin, a sudden fear comes over me that will last with me through out the whole day. The fear has nothing to do with my surroundings. The fear is that I'm going to die, something is wrong with me, my health. I don't know how many things I have diagnosed myself with; heart attacks, lung problems, seizures, etc. I have been to the hospital 3 different times over these symptoms and since I am 22 the doctors say that I am young so they don't see anything to serious going on and it is just anxiety & won't run any other tests.
Also, I want to make this a point: I have nothing stressful going on in my life at all and I have no reason to be anxious what-so-ever.
I know the simple solution would just to stop smoking heroin if this is causing this big of impact on my everyday activities but it's much harder said than done so please don't judge. I have limited myself and I am not smoking as much as I used to. When I stop, I get withdrawals.. so I've been smoking half Bs through out the day to help with the sickness.. but even smoking that much causes this bad of anxiety. Smoking has never ever caused this to happen to me before, its all new and recent...
I should also state that about 4 weeks ago, I started having problems with my chest (this is when I thought I was having heart/lung problems.) I was thinking it was due to how much heroin I was smoking a day so until I went to the hospital thats when I started getting anxiety about using heroin.. thinking it was damaging my lungs... Turned out to be heartburn.
Could this heroin addiction be causing some serious problems with my health, could the heroin just be affecting my body differently than before, or since my experience I had 4 weeks ago, thinking it was the heroin abuse (even though I know it's not now); Could that be playing tricks with my head? There for, it's all in my head...?
I'm so scared right now and would like your guys' thoughts on this situation, some feedback, or hopefully/possibly some stories from your personal experience!
Thank you!
