Hello everyone,
I am fairly new here, although I have posted a few times last year regarding some horrible muscle twitching I was (and still am) experiencing.
The reason I am posting today is because of some weird and frightening symptoms I have been having recently. I have searched in the search bar but I don't know if I am experiencing exactly what other people in this forum have described so would like to see if this seems familiar to anyone else.
I am 46 now and possibly in early stage perimenopause (my period are still fine and I havent had any hot flashes etc) but I have had terrible anxiety for the last 3 or so years. I was on Propanolol for a while but it made me so lightheaded and out of it that I have had to stop using it. But recently I have been getting lots of hypnic jerks in the night, which jolt me wide awake as I am about to drift off to sleep. However, over the last 2 weeks I have had a number of nights where the jolts are so severe as I am drifting off to sleep that I have not managed to get any sleep at all. I am almost asleep and I wake suddenly with a feeling of doom and complete dread. My heart is racing and my entire body is trembling and shaking. Sometimes it feels like the trembling can be felt from my head to toes. This can happen repeatedly throughout the night. At times my tinnitus gets so loud in my head. So I am not necessarily being woken from sleep - at times I dont get to sleep at all.
I have also been experiencing another weird sensation whereby I may be sitting at dinner, or chatting to a friend and I suddenly get a weird sensation from my neck up the back of my head. It is almost like a cold sweat and I feel weird and panicked, like I am about to faint. I need to go and lay down and sometimes don't feel right for a few hours. But it is almost like a head surge. Does this make sense to anyone?
