Panic Attacks
 

Does anyone else suffer from them?:sad:

Yes, I went through a whole spell of them for 6 months last year, and then two years before that I had them for eight months. Im glad to say i dont get them to the extreme Iused to, I occassionaly get one. Im so glad I that I dont get them to the extreme that i used to it really did ruin my life for those six months last year.

Not really. My sister is Bi-Polar and diabetic which makes her suffer from them.

Nope.

I have Tetany crisis and it's absolutely annoying and I also have migraines, so when they mix up I want to crush my head against a wall.

I suffered from them massively when I lived on my own but what with everything that went on they have come back with vengeance.

I cant sit still, can read, cant sleep and when I do sleep I wake with startles in the night

I've tried to google this but there doesnt seem to be an explanation of what it is. Is it heightened anxiety?

Go see your doctor KIz.:hug:

I understand you at all Kiz, I know what we are talking about. And these tetany crisis never stop you think your heart is going to stop lol It's a horrible feeling.

Thanks for that...... thats really helpful :rolleyes:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1811307

I used to get them all during last summer , when I was dead convinced that the house was being broken in to virtually every night. I guess it links somehow to be being manic depressive.

I've been, I'm been on some pretty heavy stuff for a while because of them but its just gone up a notch and now have sedatives :sad::sad::sad::sad:

I get them, i've been getting them when ever i have Exams, I panic alot over thinking i'm going to pass out well have a seizure, i'm epileptic and i panic alot over that, i get a dizzy spell and it sets me off.

Oh god.... thats like how I have been feeling...... I feel like I am a in a high state of tenseness 24 hours a day.


:flowers:

I didn't have any since January and I think the next ones will be when I will be revising the exams next June. I feel them coming on the road lol
And when it happens, you better not be alone. You never know what is going to happen.

I got one last year when i went to visit my step grandma in hospital my chest went all funny and i started shaking it was horrible. Thats the only time i have had one though

I had one the other week just before my drama exam. I know it may sound pathetic but I couldn't breathe and couldn't even stand up.

I was fine when I began performing though. :laugh:

I use to get them two times a day sometime three times. Horrible expierence.

Thats what happened to me, the doctor gave me all this stuff like beta blockers (propanolol) it never worked.

I think I might have had one before?

I was at a school resendential staying at one of those reconstructed Victorian towns and I woke up at about 4am. I saw this weird white thing wlaking closer and closer and it wouldn't go away. I was so **** scared. I was shaking uncontrolably and couldn't even shout out to someone to wake up. Eventually I plucked up the courage and kicked my friends bed above me. He woke up and it dissappeared. One of the weirdest and without a a doubt the scariest momment of my life.

Only advice I can give is sip water. It cools and calms you down.

I am on some old school tablets which work for minor ones but now I have some valium :conf2:

Surely the valium should work with it being fairly strong? I had accpunture (not worth it lol) hypnotherapy which did actually help, made me alot calmer.

Awww Kiz *hugs* I get them but only when I'm extremly stressed like the last 2 weeks as I'm having orals at the moment. They're not nice at all.

I hope you'll be ok soon!

I do Kiz x
In the recent year mostly..

I started having them when my mum n dad started arguing and shouting at each other...

I have them weekly, and over the smallest of things, like if i get really upset or annoyed at someone..

or i feel ive annoyed someone and i cant get in tounch with them...

I get really bad x

I think the biggest one i had was when my mum n dad said my mum was looking for a new house and they were selling this house =( x

Sorry to hear that. ^^^^^^

I had one once and it was years ago. I injured my ribs on a fairground ride. The next day when I went to work the pain seemed to be getting greater and greater. I started to panic, thinking I had broken them or something. The pain increased and I was getting in an anxious state. Everyone was fussing round me and some were going to call an ambulance. That just made me worse. Somebody drove me to hospital.

Whilst I was in the car, I thought I was having a stroke or something. I became semi-paralysed, and I couldnt function correctly. I couldn't move my fingers and stuff like that. By the time I got into A&E, I couldn't speak properly and all my speech was slurred. I couldn't understand why they were leaving me there and not doing anything and by this time I was really upset.

It was at this point that another patient came over and told me I was having a panic attack. He took me outside, sat me down, and gave me a brown paper bag to breathe in and it worked. I was back to normal in a few minutes. Apparently, because I had increased breathing, I was taking in too much oxygen. I felt very stupid after that and left the hospital after thanking him. I was fine after that and have never had one since.

So next time anyone has one, try breathing slowly into a paper bag and see if it works for you.

Thanks guys,

Your right Baz, its all about controlling your breathing and trying not to breath in more than you breath out.... well thats what Red tells me to do.

Mine have gone past the breathing stage to where I have to withdraw myself completely and sit or else it just snowballs. Its horrid because I feel like I am claustrophobic but I am unable to leave the house because of shear panic.

Like many people have said who have experienced one, they arent nice.

I cannot even control my breathing, it goes wild and goes to the point of biting something (last time it was my mobile phone). I cannot eat and cannot drink something, I just have to wait basically.
And yes you are right, they aren't nice at all.

How are you today Kiz?

Have you tried to good old fashioned breathing in and out of a paper bag? it really does work as you concentrate on making sure you inflate and defalte the bag which takes your mind off the panic.

How are you today Kiz?

About 2 years ago i used to have them alot, the doctor said they were due to stress. I now know why but at the time i didnt x

It's wierd when you have one isn't it and you don't know what is happening to you?

Its awful, the only way i can describe it is its like you cant breathe fully (if you know what i mean lol) its like you can only take in little bits of air and thats it :sad: x

Its awful, the only way i can describe it is its like you cant breathe fully (if you know what i mean lol) its you can only take in little bits of airs and thats it :sad: x [/quote]

I know. Breathing control is the most important thing to remember.

I know. Breathing control is the most important thing to remember. [/quote] Yeah, luckily i havent had one for about a year now it was all due to my nans illness i think i found a bit hard to accept at first which is what set them off x

Literally your breathless, think your going to stop breathing. I got bad chest pains when i had them I always thought i was having a heat attack.

Glad to hear you have not had one recently. As you say, stressful situations can bring them on.

Yeah they do, have you had any recently? x