anxiety sufferers-pain relief in labour??

i suffer with generalised anxiety and have done for the past year, i am due to be induced in 4days and was looking for some advice.
I was wondering about what pain relief other people with anxiety used??
I stopped drinking alcohol way before i was pregnant as i didnt like the 'out of control feeling' it gave me and it made me have panic attacks. Im wondering if peoples anxiety was worsened with the drowsyness of pain relief?

<blockquote><b>Quoting Kath Underwood:</b>" i suffer with generalised anxiety and have done for the past year, i am due to be induced in 4days and ... [snip!] ... it gave me and it made me have panic attacks. Im wondering if peoples anxiety was worsened with the drowsyness of pain relief?"</blockquote>




Pain relief during labor? Or before...
I was induced and I got an epidural...that relaxed me all over.
As for before labor...I sorta just suffered with it  

They gave me stadol before I got my epi. The stadol literally made me feel high as hell and took the edge off for a while. I thought I would have an issue with it but I was fine.

I don't have anything to contribute but I want to keep an eye on this because I am concerned as well. I have a lot of anxiety, I can't handle any kind of recreational mood altering substance and I totally freak out if I'm numb so I'm kind of in a damned-if-you-do place. Interested in what other mamas with anxiety have to say about their birth experiences (:

Epidural made me more calm. I suffer from anxiety every day.

my son was born safely on wednesday evening :-)
i had entinox (gas and air) which made me feel great, not the slightest bit anxious which was the thing i was worried about. i also had an epidural which gave me a numb feeling afterwards but again no anxiousness :-)