Scared to eat...

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The other night I was eating chocolate and I started chocking and it escalated into me fighting for my breath. It was the most horrendous experience for me.

Anyway I went to sleep and I thought I would be ok the next day however, I went food shopping with my daughter and I had a massive anxiety attack which led me having to go to hospital, they treated me with Diazipam and a follow up appointment.

Since all this I have developed a fear of eating, however I have eaten but the anticipation of eating, during eating and even after I have eaten sends me into the most dreadful attack of anxiety. I really do not wish to be reliant on drugs just so I can eat food and all this is putting huge pressure on both myself and my daughter.

I'm just writing this to try and make some sense of it all.

You should try to find out if you're allergic to chocolate.

It seems like you had a specific reaction to the chocolate.

I was choking because it went down the wrong hole.

That sounds awful. I have trouble swallowing pills sometimes, and the more conscious I am of it, the harder it is. I hope you can get back to a point where you're not panicked over just trying to eat!

Try something that you can drink through a straw for now, maybe soup, smoothies, or http://www.complan.com/, it will keep your health and energy up until you can build up the confidence to swallow solids again.

Yep....like Amity says, work your way back to solids.

Sounds like you have developed a fear of fear, or anxiety of anxiety. If I'm right it's not the eating you are afraid of, but the anxiety you experienced when this happened. You have eaten several times a day for over 43 years, so there is nothing new there