I hav'nt had anything like this in a L-O-N-G time but I had just cut and washed my hair in preparation for an appointment tommorow and proceeded to sit down to eat a bowl of chili. I took a bite and it's almost as if I could'nt swallow it. Finally, it went down. The next few bites were even worse and it it felt like I had to put in an extra effort to swallow and it's almost like my throat/tongue were not working right or something and I had a lump-in-thoat/constricted sensation.

As this got worse, I had the most HORRIBLE feeling of sheer terror come over me that I can ever imagine and the adrenalin shot up through me like a rocket. I'm not sure if my heart was pounding/racing or anything but I know I was scared beyond belief and the only thing I could think about was death, disease, rushing to the ER, etc. It also felt like my lungs were too weak to take a breath and I had a weird sensation in my head.

I have been taking Tylenol 3 w/codeine for a few days now and prior to that, I had been on either Lorazepam or Xanax. I missed my dose of Xanax yesterday so I'm wondering if this was a "rebound" or withdrawl effect -or- if it had something to do with the T-3. I had a pharmacist tell me once that Lorcet can definately cause anxiety but when I called another pharmacist a few minutes ago and asked about this, he said "there's no way". Lorcet and T-3 both contain codeine (I believe).

Anyway, I just took a Xanax (0.25mg) about 1/2 hour ago and although I'm somewhat better, I'm still freaked out and terrified that I'm going to die. I don't even feel like "me" right now. I just feel totally freaky in the head. This hit me TOTALLY out of the blue.