Panic Attacks...What happens to you?!


Question: I have these episodes that I can only describe as "panic attacks". However, when other people tell me what theirs feel like they don't sound anything like what I experience, and they don't sound nearly as bad.

I am looking for people who actually HAVE what they consider to be panic attacks. I have read all the websites, I know what the clinical definition is. I am looking for a first hand description of what physical symptoms you experience, in what order, and to what extent. I want to know what goes through your mind leading up to, during, and after. Also, I would like to know what prescription or combo of them works for you.

Thanks, guys!


Answers: I have these episodes that I can only describe as "panic attacks". However, when other people tell me what theirs feel like they don't sound anything like what I experience, and they don't sound nearly as bad.

I am looking for people who actually HAVE what they consider to be panic attacks. I have read all the websites, I know what the clinical definition is. I am looking for a first hand description of what physical symptoms you experience, in what order, and to what extent. I want to know what goes through your mind leading up to, during, and after. Also, I would like to know what prescription or combo of them works for you.

Thanks, guys!

I think there are alot of us who have them. I do too. It's a teriible feeling of overwelming fear, heart racing, hyperventilation, dizzy headedness, dry mouth, feel like you're going to die.
The thing is they can sometimes present differently. hey can be caused by low blood sugar, as what happened to you and several other things like, enviornmental toxins, hypothyroidism, depression, adrenal disorders, poor nutrition, prescription medications, caffeine. One could drive themselves nuts trying to figure it out.
One treatment I was told about does help. It may sound odd but It's effective. To bring one on. It can be done. When you do bring one on you can employ various techniques to recognize it before it gets bad and to stop it before it completely takes over.
I also use nutrition and dietary supplements to help manage them, along with exercise, yoga and meditation.

Sometimes my panic attacks come on out of nowhere, for no reason. I get a very "scared" feeling. I also get lightheaded, sweaty and shaky.

when I get them, it is an overwhelming sense of fear, my heart starts raising, my chest gets tight and I have a hard time breathing. I can start shaking, and feel out of control. What goes through my mind.... I don't remember... my memory is so poor, during... I feel like I can't breath. and after wards I can breath again, and don't feel like my chest is so tight,

Meds I don't know.... I take klonopin, and another anxiety med daily 3 times a day each one. So they don't come so often.

my heart beats really fast and my mouth gets dry.

first,let me start out with I'm sorry your having them.I have taken "Zoloft" it feels like your gonna die. like someone or something is holding your lungs so you can't breath.your stomach is very upset, you shake you feel nervous or afraid,your beats so rapid it feels like its going to beat right out of your chest.

When I have panic attacks my heart races and pounds, I feel like I cannot breathe, and that I am going to die. It feels, for some reason, like I am flipping over backwards even though I know I am not. I feel intense fear in my body and mind. I know it sounds totally irrational but that is how I feel. It is completely miserable .
I take a lot of psych meds and many of them help with the panic and anxiety. But specifically for the anxiety , I take Klonopin.

well for me there's only one thing to describe a panic attack, an out of body terrible experience. It was like I couldn't control myself and like the entire world was collapsing around me. My most recent was in English Lit and I was happily reading when it came. It was from a low blood sugar problem (I had coffee and a donut for breakfast, not very healthy) and I started to shake and sweat and my friend felt my face and told me I felt like I was on fire. During the panic attacks itself I sort of felt like a puppet, like I couldn't control my own limbs and like I wanted to scream but nobody would hear me. My heart was racing like a hummingbird's too.





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