Does anyone else experience intense panic attacks that just come on SUDDENLY. I could be sitting and relaxing and then bam my heart is racing, I am shaking and feel I am about to die!
Yes! That has happened to me:( I was eating dinner one time and then the next minute I couldn’t catch my breath and was shaking for an hour.
i had my one yesterday , felt like i was going to die , can you describe me your symptoms . I am cardiophobiac ,i had numbness in both of my hands , impending doom and all that
Hope you will do ok
Racing heart with irregular heart beats (PVCs and PACS) as well as just beating super fast. Numbness and tingling in arms and hands. Sure I am having a heart attack and will drop down dead any second. Sometimes chest pain with left side arm pain! Sometimes my muscles actually begin to spasm. Its awful, what are your symptoms?
My symptoms differ sometimes with each episode like 10-12 days back when i had it , i had chest pain in left side , dull pain the one people tell you about similar to heart issue , so yes spasm we can say , rapid hearbeat , palpitations , impending doom , feel like it could be your last moment , and the one 2 days back i was talking to my relatives and a strong wave came up in my chest as if i might die , which followed by numbness in both if the hands , uncomfortable chest , very very light chest pain as soon as happened i was convinced i was having what i was fearing about , rushed me to a local hospital , did an ECG and said i am fine , no need for any other test , it lasted for about 15-20 mins. I have had many scary symptoms from last 6-7 months , its really awful . how long has it been happening with you and how often do you get panic attack or how lond do they lasts and how do you know about pvc and pacs , Am.sure you must been through several tests , Hope they have came normal
sorry for all these questions , just anxious
Hope we will recover from this .
and the strange part is these incidents happened out of nowhere , one minute i am talking to someone normally and the next moment this strange wave in my body and rapid heartbeat , palpitations and other symptoms , not giving me time to think about the situation , if it is really happening or is it Psychosomatic , like what is happening to me , wondering what will happen next
Been having panic attacks almost daily for a year now with some weeks respite.
One thing I will say is that anxiety/panic disorder changes your Autonomic Nervous System and it is hard for you to get out of fight or flight mode. I get those waves out of nowhere too and those are the WORST! Mine begin to change almost as soon as I get used to it and it takes on new “symptoms”. Recently I will just get vertigo, hands feel strange then comes the adrenaline rush and racing heart. Sometimes I will not even get a fast heart rate but will instead tremble or my teeth chatter uncontrollably. My symptoms are different all the time and to be honest the list is endless of all the different symptoms I have/do have.
I had a work-up done on my heart because I was feeling the flutters and wanted to know what was going on so saw a Cardiologist about it and had a Heart Scan and Holter Monitor.
My panic attacks have sent me to Hospital countless times because I am convinced I am having heart attack or some kind of stroke. The symptoms are VERY real and scary.
I always recommend people to get a full work up done mainly to ease their minds, that really does help with the fear of it all. Once that is all clear you have to work on trying to forget about it and when it does come over you take deep breaths and remind yourself it has happened before and you got through it. For me If I feel awful I will get the Emergency Services up on my phone and I tell myself If I do not feel better after a certain time and I cannot decide whether its an attack or something serious I will call them. More times than not the panic begins to go after 15-30 minutes.
Thank you for sharing your experience., I have consulted over 5-6 doctors by now(Probably more than that) have gone through EKG’s , TMT , 2dEcho Multiple times(Not Holter monitor though) and the doctor said they don’t need to do any other test as every report is normal and i am in good health. I Didn’t know the terms PAC’s or PVC’s up until you mentioned here , what did the doctors said about it. I am assuming they might have said that it is something related with anxiety and it is not harmful , ALthough none of my doctor have mentioned anything unusual with my reports. I am going to try yoga , People say it works for many and i don’t know what part of the world you are from , but many have even suggested HOMEOPATHY.
Thank you for talking to me , felt better to know that there are people out there who can understand my situation. STRENGTH to us all. There is light at the end of the every tunnel.
i have had trembling and vertigo too followed by tingling in fingers and many more scary symptoms, right now it is muscle tension in my shoulders and neck , and what is really scary is pain in the chest and chest tightness/pressure . Have you ever felt that chest pressure ?
And yes when i try to neglect the symptoms after a few days i develop new symptoms too
Yes I get chest pressure, usually when I am not breathing correctly from anxiety. Sometimes I feel like my body is a huge weight and I am sinking into myself! It is so weird. Sometimes my left arm becomes extremely painful and even my elbow will hurt so bad! So bizzarre
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Thank you for sharing your experience., I have consulted over 5-6 doctors by now(Probably more than that) have gone through EKG’s , TMT , 2dEcho Multiple times(Not Holter monitor though) and the doctor said they don’t need to do any other test as every report is normal and i am in good health. I Didn’t know the terms PAC’s or PVC’s up until you mentioned here , what did the doctors said about it. I am assuming they might have said that it is something related with anxiety and it is not harmful , ALthough none of my doctor have mentioned anything unusual with my reports. I am going to try yoga , People say it works for many and i don’t know what part of the world you are from , but many have even suggested HOMEOPATHY.
Thank you for talking to me , felt better to know that there are people out there who can understand my situation. STRENGTH to us all. There is light at the end of the every tunnel.
yes i just had one !!! scary as hell the left side of body numb and the right side tight my heart went up to 150 head felt light hold body felt like it was giving away