Worst night of my life

Mental health
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Hi

I'm 37 female and have cancer. I've had it for four years but reasonably well and living a normal life.

The last year or so I've had anxiety, mostly being in cars makes me nervous and large crowds particularly people walking behind me closely.

Yesterday I had a stressful day. I had a scan and then my teenage daughter was arguing with me and swearing and disagreeable causing me to shout at her and cry. I noticed yesterday my heart was racing it's always pretty fast.

Last night I was watching TV at around ten pm when I went to the loo got up and walked in the living room and felt extremely dizzy to the point I couldn't focus at all. I thought I was dying or having some out of body experience I wanted a pillow to lie down on but I couldn't remember the word it was awful. I lay down and I'd say after ten minutes I came around and I was less dizzy and remembered words again. I was very scared after. My dad thinks I had a panic attack but I've not heard of these symptoms before.

I was very tired after this episode and eventually fell asleep.

I'm ok today just worried it will happen again

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Caroline.

I get the dizziness like that, I am disabled with trapped nerves in my neck.

When I get up suddenly and turn my head I suffer the same. They say it is quite normal because when we get up to quick our blood pressure is low, it settles quite quickly as the brain gets is dose of blood once more

How did you get on with your Scan ?

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Hi

I hope that you are recovered after this. May I enquire if you had anycontrast medium when you had your scan?

I would let your dr know what happened and he or she mayjust want togive you a quick check over to reassure you .

Hope you are okay now.

Try not o worry . It happened to me and I am still here to tell the tale.

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It does sound like a panic attack to me . I get same symptoms , it's horrid I feel for you x