Peggy

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    Peggy
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    I dealt with what you’ve described when I had anxiety and depression.
    Just as I was finally falling asleep all of a sudden my heart I would jump awake and my heart would race…as if a loud clap of thunder crashed right over my house while I was dead asleep. This would literally happen all night every night for weeks.
    I finally found a doctor that decided to try a blood pressure medication for only about 1 month. It worked wonders. It stopped the startles and racing heart and I was actually able to get some decent sleep.
    Dont get me wrong…in the years every since the events that brought about that depression and anxiety and that strange “sleep/start/panic” I have dealt with degrees of insomnia. But it was an answered prayer to find that a simple blood pressure medication turned around the “sleep/start/panic”.

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